1 Corinthians 3:2

I fed you with milk, not with solid food, for you were not then able to take it. No, and even now you are not able; you are still worldly.

Twentieth Century 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

1But I, Brothers, could not speak to you as men with spiritual insight, but only as worldly-minded — mere infants in the Faith of Christ.

3While there exist among you jealousy and party feeling, is it not true that you are worldly, and are acting merely as other men do?

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Cross References

John 16:12I have still much to say to you, but you cannot bear it now.

1 Peter 2:2like newly born infants, crave pure spiritual milk, so that you may be enabled by it to grow till you attain 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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