| 11 | About this we have much to say which is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. |
| 12 | For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need some one to teach you again the first principles of God's word. You need milk, not solid food; |
| 13 | for every one who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a child. |
| 14 | But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their faculties trained by practice to distinguish good from evil. |