"Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing." — Hebrews 5:11

Hebrews 5:11 · KJV

“Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.”

— Hebrews 5:11

Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which {be} the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

Hebrews 5 — Context

And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;

Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.

Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.

For every one that useth milk {is} unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. {is unskillful: Gr. hath no experience}

Cross References

Matthew 13:15

For this people's heart is waxed gross, and {their} ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with {their} eyes, and hear with {their} ears, and should understand with {their} heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

2 Peter 3:16

As also in all {his} epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as {they do} also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

Acts 28:27

For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with {their} eyes, and hear with {their} ears, and understand with {their} heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

John 16:12

I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.

Isaiah 6:10

Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.

Mark 8:21

And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him.

John 6:6

And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do.

Luke 24:25

Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: