¹² For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic elements of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food,^(A)

¹³ for everyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is unskilled in the word of righteousness.

² Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation^(A)—