1 Corinthians 3:2

I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able to bear it: nay, not even now are ye able;

Revised Version 1895

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, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ.

3for ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and walk after the manner of men?

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Cross References

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

1 Peter 2:2as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto 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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