13 for every one who is partaking of milk `is' unskilled in the word of righteousness -- for he is an infant,
as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,
Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;
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,
every Writing `is' God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that `is' in righteousness,
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.
verily I say to you, whoever may not receive the reign of God, as a child -- he may not enter into it;'
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,' for revealed is the wrath of God from heaven upon all impiety and unrighteousness of men, holding down the truth in unrighteousness.
for Moses doth describe the righteousness that `is' of the law, that, `The man who did them shall live in them,' 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?
And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly -- as to babes in Christ;
for if the ministration of the condemnation `is' glory, much more doth the ministration of the righteousness abound in glory;
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Commentary on Hebrews 5 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 5
In this chapter the apostle continues his discourse upon the priesthood of Christ, a sweet subject, which he would not too soon dismiss. And here,
Hbr 5:1-9
We have here an account of the nature of the priestly office in general, though with an accommodation to the Lord Jesus Christ. We are told,
Hbr 5:10-14
Here the apostle returns to what he had in v. 6 cited out of Ps. 110, concerning the peculiar order of the priesthood of Christ, that is, the order of Melchisedec. And here,