Warning Against Apostasy
11 About this we have much to say, and it is [2 Pet. 3:16]hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. 12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again ch. 6:1the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need 1 Cor. 3:2milk, not solid food, 13 for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is 1 Cor. 3:1;[1 Pet. 2:2]a child. 14 But solid food is for Eph. 4:13the mature, for those who have their powers Gen. 3:22;1 Kgs. 3:9;Isa. 7:15of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.