As a matter of fact, my friends, I could not talk to you as I talk to people who have the Spirit; I had to talk to you as though you belonged to this world, as children in the Christian faith.

I had to feed you milk, not solid food, because you were not ready for it. And even now you are not ready for it,

Do not be like children in your thinking, my friends; be children so far as evil is concerned, but be grown up in your thinking.

Don't let anything worry you or cause you pain. You aren't going to be young very long.

But now to continue---the son who will receive his father's property is treated just like a slave while he is young, even though he really owns everything.