1 Corinthians 3:2

I have given you milk to drink, not meat, for ye have not yet been able, nor indeed are ye yet able;

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.

In Context

1And *I*, brethren, have not been able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly; as to babes in Christ.

3for ye are yet carnal. For whereas [there are] among you emulation and strife, are ye not carnal, and walk according to man?

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Cross References

John 16:12I have yet many things to say to you, but ye cannot bear them now.

1 Peter 2:2as newborn babes desire earnestly the pure mental milk of the word, that by it ye may grow up to salvation,

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 3:2-5

The Spirit of Party Reproved. ( a. d. 57.) 1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. 2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. 3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? 4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal? Here, I. Paul blames the… Read the whole commentary →

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