1 Corinthians 3:1

And I, my Brethren, could not talk with you, as with spiritual persons, but as with the carnal, as with babes in Messiah.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.

In Context

2I gave you milk, and did not give you solid food: for ye were not then able to receive it; and even now, ye are not able.

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Cross References

Matthew 16:23But he turned, and said to Cephas: Get thee behind me, Satan: Thou art a stumbling block to me; for thou thinkest not the things of God, but the things of men.

1 Corinthians 2:6Yet we do speak wisdom, among the perfect; the wisdom not of this world, nor of the potentates of this world, who will come to naught.

1 Corinthians 3:3For ye are still in the flesh. For, as there are among you envying, and contention, and parties, are ye not carnal, and walking in the flesh?

Galatians 6:1My brethren, if one of you should be overtaken in a fault, do ye who are of the Spirit recover him, in a spirit of meekness: and be ye cautious, lest ye also be tempted.

Hebrews 5:13For every one whose food is milk, is unversed in the language of righteousness, because he is a child.

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 →

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