1 Corinthians 3:2

I have sustained you with milk, and have not given you meat; for as yet you could not, nor can you now, (bear it).

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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, my brethren, could not speak with you as with the spiritual, but as with the carnal, and as with babes in the Meshiha.

3For as yet you are in the flesh. For while there are among you envy and contentions and divisions, are you not carnal, and walking in the flesh?

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Cross References

John 16:12I have yet much to tell you, but you cannot now apprehend;

1 Peter 2:2and be as (new)-born babes, and be desirous of the word as of milk pure and spiritual, that by it you may increase unto life.

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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