ESV Study Bible | English Standard Version

2 d I fed you with milk, not solid food, for e you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready,

12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again d the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need e milk, not solid food, 13 for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is f a child. 14 But solid food is for g the mature, for those who have their powers h of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.

42 And the Lord said, “Who then is m the faithful and m wise n manager, whom his master will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the proper time?