Matthew 15:16

Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let’s press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us. The Lord opened her heart to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.

Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.

This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us,

He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, “Why do you reason that it’s because you have no bread? Don’t you perceive yet, neither understand? Is your heart still hardened?

They didn’t understand the saying which he spoke to them.

And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”

Don’t you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

He asked them, “Don’t you understand yet?”

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;’ and, ‘Because I go to the Father’?”

without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:

I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities and have discernment in your truth.

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

They told him, “We only have here five loaves and two fish.”

He summoned the multitude, and said to them, “Hear, and understand.

Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.

He said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”

He said to them, “Are you also without understanding? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him,

He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.

All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.”

They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the “rising from the dead” meant.

But they didn’t understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.

They said to one another, “Weren’t our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?”

His disciples didn’t understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.

Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, “Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?’

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the revelations of God.

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities.

Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.

I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding:

A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

“Say now to the rebellious house, ‘Don’t you know what these things mean?’ Tell them, ‘Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took its king, and its princes, and brought them to him to Babylon.

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

Jesus said to them, “Have you understood all these things?” They answered him, “Yes, Lord.”

Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body?

How is it that you don’t perceive that I didn’t speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

“When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

for they hadn’t understood about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.

There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.

Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn’t believe those who had seen him after he had risen.

But they didn’t understand this saying. It was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they didn’t understand the things that were said.

Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.

“There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these among so many?”

Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them.

Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”

without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;

What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Don’t you remember that, when I was still with you, I told you these things?

Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.

For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.