an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—
having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.
They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.
Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.
But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed,
Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—
for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child.
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;
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