Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—
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, for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child.
Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready,
Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”
Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.
Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.
We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.
and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord.
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.”
The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple; the precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes; the fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.
since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;
“For does not my house stand so with God? For he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and secure. For will he not cause to prosper all my help and my desire?
They shall return and dwell beneath my shadow; they shall flourish like the grain; they shall blossom like the vine; their fame shall be like the wine of Lebanon.
I will be like the dew to Israel; he shall blossom like the lily; he shall take root like the trees of Lebanon;
But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.
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