The Message Bible MSG
English Standard Version ESV
11 I have a lot more to say about this, but it is hard to get it across to you since you've picked up this bad habit of not listening.
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About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
12 By this time you ought to be teachers yourselves, yet here I find you need someone to sit down with you and go over the basics on God again, starting from square one - baby's milk, when you should have been on solid food long ago!
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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,
13 Milk is for beginners, inexperienced in God's ways;
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for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child.
14 solid food is for the mature, who have some practice in telling right from wrong.
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But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.
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