9 ^pBut now that you have come to ^qknow God, or rather to be ^rknown by God, how can you turn back again to the ^sweak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?

12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the ^kbasic principles of the oracles of God. You need ^lmilk, not solid food,