¹³ for every one who is partaking of milk `is' unskilled in the word of righteousness -- for he is an infant,

² as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,

²⁰ Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;

⁹ By whom doth He teach knowledge? And by whom doth He cause to understand the report? The weaned from milk, the removed from breasts,

¹⁶ every Writing `is' God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that `is' in righteousness,

¹⁴ that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray,

⁹ for if the ministration of the condemnation `is' glory, much more doth the ministration of the righteousness abound in glory;

¹¹ When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;

¹ And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly -- as to babes in Christ;

⁵ for Moses doth describe the righteousness that `is' of the law, that, `The man who did them shall live in them,'

⁶ and the righteousness of faith doth thus speak: `Thou mayest not say in thine heart, Who shall go up to the heaven,' that is, Christ to bring down?

¹⁷ For the righteousness of God in it is revealed from faith to faith, according as it hath been written, `And the righteous one by faith shall live,'

¹⁸ for revealed is the wrath of God from heaven upon all impiety and unrighteousness of men, holding down the truth in unrighteousness.

¹⁵ verily I say to you, whoever may not receive the reign of God, as a child -- he may not enter into it;'

²⁵ At that time Jesus answering said, `I do confess to Thee, Father, Lord of the heavens and of the earth, that thou didst hide these things from wise and understanding ones, and didst reveal them to babes.

¹²³ Mine eyes have been consumed for Thy salvation. And for the saying of Thy righteousness.

²⁰ an instructor of foolish ones, a teacher of babes, having the form of the knowledge and of the truth in the law.