1 Corinthians 3:2

I fed you with milk, not with solid food, for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now,

World English Bible

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

1Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

3for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?

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Cross References

John 16:12“I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.

1 Peter 2:2as newborn babies, long for the pure spiritual milk, that with it you may grow,

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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