² I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, since you were not yet ready for it. In fact, you are still not ready,

⁷ Who serves as a soldier at his own expense?^(A) Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not drink the milk from the flock?

¹² Although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the basic principles of God’s revelation again. You need milk, not solid food.^{(A) 13} Now everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced with the message about righteousness, because he is an infant.