Hebrews 5:11 We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand.

English Standard Version
About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.

New American Standard Bible
Concerning him we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
We have a great deal to say about this, and it's difficult to explain, since you have become too lazy to understand.

International Standard Version
We have much to say about this, but it is difficult to explain because you have become too lazy to understand.

American Standard Version
Of whom we have many things to say, and hard of interpretation, seeing ye are become dull of hearing.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Of whom we have much to say, and hard to be intelligibly uttered: because you are become weak to hear.

Darby Bible Translation
Concerning whom we have much to say, and hard to be interpreted in speaking of it, since ye are become dull in hearing.

Young's Literal Translation
concerning whom we have much discourse and of hard explanation to say, since ye have become dull of hearing,

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.

Hebrews 5:10
Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.

Hebrews 5:12
For when for the time you ought to be teachers, you 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.

2 Peter 3:16
As also in all his letters, 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, to their own destruction.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

5:11-14 Dull hearers make the preaching of the gospel difficult, and even those who have some faith may be dull hearers, and slow to believe. Much is looked for from those to whom much is given. To be unskilful, denotes want of experience in the things of the gospel. Christian experience is a spiritual sense, taste, or relish of the goodness, sweetness, and excellence of the truths of the gospel. And no tongue can express the satisfaction which the soul receives, from a sense of Divine goodness, grace, and love to it in Christ.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

11. Here he digresses to complain of the low spiritual attainments of the Palestinian Christians and to warn them of the danger of falling from light once enjoyed; at the same time encouraging them by God's faithfulness to persevere. At Heb 6:20 he resumes the comparison of Christ to Melchisedec.

hard to be uttered—rather as Greek, "hard of interpretation to speak." Hard for me to state intelligibly to you owing to your dulness about spiritual things. Hence, instead of saying many things, he writes in comparatively few words (Heb 13:22). In the "we," Paul, as usual, includes Timothy with himself in addressing them.

ye are—Greek, "ye have become dull" (the Greek, by derivation, means hard to move): this implies that once, when first "enlightened," they were earnest and zealous, but had become dull. That the Hebrew believers AT Jerusalem were dull in spiritual things, and legal in spirit, appears from Ac 21:20-24, where James and the elders expressly say of the "thousands of Jews which believe," that "they are all zealous of the law"; this was at Paul's last visit to Jerusalem, after which this Epistle seems to have been written (see on [2551]Heb 5:12, on "for the time").