¹³ For everyone who takes milk is without experience of the word of righteousness: he is a child.

² Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;

²⁰ My brothers, do not be children in mind: in evil be as little children, but in mind be of full growth.

⁹ To whom will he give knowledge? and to whom will he make clear the word? Will it be to those who have newly given up milk, and who have only now been taken from the breast?

¹⁶ Every holy Writing which comes from God is of profit for teaching, for training, for guiding, for education in righteousness:

¹⁴ So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error;

⁹ For if the operation of the law, producing punishment, had its glory, how much greater will be the operation of the Spirit causing righteousness?

¹¹ When I was a child, I made use of a child's language, I had a child's feelings and a child's thoughts: now that I am a man, I have put away the things of a child.

¹ And the teaching I gave you, my brothers, was such as I was able to give, not to those who have the Spirit, but to those who are still in the flesh, even to children in Christ.

⁵ For Moses says that the man who does the righteousness which is of the law will get life by it.

⁶ But the righteousness which is of faith says these words, Say not in your heart, Who will go up to heaven? (that is, to make Christ come down:)

¹⁷ For in it there is the revelation of the righteousness of God from faith to faith: as it is said in the holy Writings, The man who does righteousness will be living by his faith.

¹⁸ For there is a revelation of the wrath of God from heaven against all the wrongdoing and evil thoughts of men who keep down what is true by wrongdoing;

¹⁵ Truly I say to you, Whoever does not put himself under the kingdom of God like a little child, will not come into it at all.

²⁵ At that time Jesus made answer and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children.

¹²³ My eyes are wasted with desire for your salvation, and for the word of your righteousness.

²⁰ A teacher of the foolish, having in the law the form of knowledge and of what is true;