1 Corinthians 3:1
And as for myself, brethren, I found it impossible to speak to you as spiritual men. It had to be as to worldlings--mere babes in Christ.
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Matthew 16:23But He turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Adversary; you are a hindrance to me, because your thoughts are not God's thoughts, but men's."
1 Corinthians 2:6Yet when we are among mature believers we do speak words of wisdom; a wisdom not belonging, however, to the present age nor to the leaders of the present age who are soon to pass away.
1 Corinthians 3:3you are still unspiritual. For so long as jealousy and strife continue among you, can it be denied that you are unspiritual and are living and acting like mere men of the world?
Galatians 6:1Brethren, if anybody be detected in any misconduct, you who are spiritual should restore such a one in a spirit of meekness. And let each of you keep watch over himself, lest he also fall into temptation.
Hebrews 5:13By people who live on milk I mean those who are imperfectly acquainted with the teaching concerning righteousness.
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 →