for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child.
Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—
Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
“To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, those taken from the breast?
so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.
But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.
For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, the ministry of righteousness must far exceed it in glory.
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
My eyes long for your salvation and for the fulfillment of your righteous promise.
For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them. But the righteousness based on faith says, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” (that is, to bring Christ down)
For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.” For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”
At that time Jesus declared, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children;
an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—
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