having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the Word of God which lives and abides forever,

and said, Truly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of Heaven.

Truly, I say to you, Whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it.

Therefore we were buried with Him through immersion into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual but as to carnal, even as to babes in Christ.

Brethren, do not be children in understanding; however, in malice be infants, but in understanding be mature.

The Law of Jehovah is perfect, converting the soul; the Testimony of Jehovah is sure, making wise the simple.

The fear of Jehovah is clean, enduring forever; the judgments of Jehovah are true and altogether just,

I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able, and even now you are still not able;

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the rudimentary principles of the Words of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food.

For everyone who partakes only of milk is without experience in the Word of Righteousness, for he is an infant.

Although my house is not so with the Mighty God, yet He has made with me a perpetual covenant, ordered in all things and secure. For all my salvation and all my desire, will He not make it grow?

Yet the righteous will take hold on his way, and he who has clean hands shall increase strength.

But the path of the just is as the brightness of dawn, that keeps getting brighter until it is fully daytime.

Then we shall know, we who follow on to know Jehovah. His going forth is established as the dawn. And He shall come to us as the rain, as the latter and former rain to the earth.

I will be as the dew to Israel; he shall blossom as the lily and thrust forth his roots like Lebanon.

They who live under his shadow shall return; they shall live like the grain, and blossom like the vine; their remembrance shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

But to you who fear My name, the Sun of Righteousness shall rise up, with healing on His wings. And you shall go out and frisk like calves of the stall.

in whom the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,

but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head, Christ,

We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all abounds toward each other,

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.