1 Corinthians 3:2

with milk I fed you, and not with meat, for ye were not yet able, but not even yet are ye now able,

Young's Literal Translation

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, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly — as to babes in Christ;

3for yet ye are fleshly, for where [there is] among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not fleshly, and in the manner of men do walk?

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Cross References

John 16:12'I have yet many things to say to you, but ye are not able to bear [them] now;

1 Peter 2:2as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,

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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