Hebrews 5:11-6:3

Warning Against Apostasy

11 About this we have much to say, and it is c hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. 12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again d the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need e milk, not solid food, 13 for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is f a child. 14 But solid food is for g the mature, for those who have their powers h of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.

Hebrews 6

1 Therefore i let us leave j the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance k from dead works and of faith toward God, 2 and of l instruction about washings, 1 m the laying on of hands, n the resurrection of the dead, and o eternal judgment. 3 And this we will do p if God permits.

  1. Cross References
    2 Peter 3:16
    As he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.
  2. Cross References
    Hebrews 6:1
    Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God.
  3. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 3:2
    I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready.
  4. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 3:1
    But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.
    1 Peter 2:2
    Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation -
  5. Cross References
    Ephesians 4:13
    Until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.
  6. Cross References
    Genesis 3:22
    Then the Lord God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever -
    1 Kings 3:9
    Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people?
    Isaiah 7:15
    He shall eat curds and honey when he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good.
  7. Cross References
    Philippians 3:12 - 14
    Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.
  8. Cross References
    Hebrews 5:12
    For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food.
  9. Cross References
    Hebrews 9:14
    How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
  10. Cross References
    Acts 19:4 - 5
    And Paul said, "John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, Jesus.
  11. Cross References
    Acts 8:17
    Then they laid their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit.
    Acts 19:6
    And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began speaking in tongues and prophesying.
  12. Cross References
    Acts 17:31 - 32
    Because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.
  13. Cross References
    Acts 10:42
    And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead.
  14. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 16:7
    For I do not want to see you now just in passing. I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits.
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