¹² For though ^[a]by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you ^(A)the ^[b](B)elementary principles of the ^(C)actual words of God, and you have come to need ^(D)milk and not solid food. ¹³ For everyone who partakes only of milk is unacquainted with the word of righteousness, for he is an ^(E)infant. ¹⁴ But solid food is for ^(F)the mature, who because of practice have their senses ^(G)trained to ^(H)distinguish between good and evil.

^2 (A)and like newborn babies, long for the ^[a](B)pure ^[b]milk of the word, so that by it you may ^(C)grow ^[c]in respect to salvation,