1 Corinthians 3:1
And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, as to the childlike in Christ.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
2I gave you milk to drink and not solid food, for ye were not yet able. But not even yet are ye able,
Cross References
Matthew 16:23But having turned around, he said to Peter, Go thee behind me, Satan. Thou are my stumbling-block, because thou regard not the things of God, but the things of men.
1 Corinthians 2:6But we speak wisdom among the fully developed, but not a wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age who come to nothing.
1 Corinthians 3:3for ye are still carnal. For whereas among you is envy and strife and divisions, are ye not carnal and walk according to man?
Galatians 6:1And brothers, if a man is overtaken in some transgression, ye the spiritual, restore such in a spirit of meekness, looking to thyself lest thou also be tempted.
Hebrews 5:13For every man partaking of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is childlike.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 3:1
In this chapter the apostle, I. Blames the Corinthians for their carnality and divisions, ver. 1-4 . II. He instructs them how what was amiss among them might be rectified, by remembering, 1. That their ministers were no more than ministers, ver. 5 . 2. That they were unanimous, and carried on the same design, ver. 6-10 . 3. That they built on one and the same foundation, ver. 11-15 . III. He exhorts them to give due honour to their bodies, by keeping them pure ( ver. 16, 17 ), and to humility and self-diffidence,… Read the whole commentary →