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¹⁸Yet truly, increase in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory, both now and in the day of eternity. Amen.

²Like newborn infants, desire the milk of reasonableness without guile, so that by this you may increase unto salvation,

²¹In him, all that has been built is framed together, rising up into a holy temple in the Lord.

¹⁵Instead, acting according to truth in charity, we should increase in everything, in him who is the head, Christ himself.

¹¹When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I understood like a child, I thought like a child. But when I became a man, I put aside the things of a child.

⁷And so, neither he who plants, nor he who waters, is anything, but only God, who provides the growth.

⁶Therefore, just as you have received the Lord Jesus Christ, walk in him. ⁷Be rooted and continually built up in Christ. And be confirmed in the faith, just as you have also learned it, increasing in him with acts of thanksgiving.

¹²For even though it is the time when you ought to be teachers, you are still lacking, so that you must be taught the things that are the basic elements of the Word of God, and so you have been made like those who are in need of milk, and not of solid food. ¹³For anyone who is still feeding on milk is still unskillful in the Word of Justice; for he is like an infant. ¹⁴But solid food is for those who are mature, for those who, by practice, have sharpened their mind, so as to discern good from evil.

¹⁷So if anyone is a new creature in Christ, what is old has passed away. Behold, all things have been made new.

¹³The just one will flourish like the palm tree. He will be multiplied like the cedar of Lebanon.