1 Corinthians 3:2

I fed you milk, not meat; for you were unable to bear it.

Montgomery New Testament

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

1As for me, brothers, I could not talk to you as spiritual men, but as to creatures of flesh, mere babes in Christ.

3You are not able even now, for you are still unspiritual. While there is among you jealousy and strife, are you not still unspiritual, and behaving like worldlings?

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Cross References

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

1 Peter 2:2Like new-born babes long for the pure spiritual milk to make you grow up into 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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