1 Corinthians 3:1
Verse 1 of 23. The 3rd of 16 chapters in 1 Corinthians, in The Letters of Paul.
1And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
2I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
3For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
4For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
5Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
1 Corinthians 3:1 in the World English Bible
Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.Read 1 Corinthians 3:1 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 3:1
The apostle tells them he could not speak to them as unto spiritual men, but as unto carnal men, as to babes in Christ, v. 1. They were so far from forming their maxims and measures upon the ground of divine revelation, and entering into the spirit of the gospel, that is was but too evident they were much under the command of carnal and corrupt affections. They were still mere babes in Christ.
Read Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 3:1–4: The Spirit of Party Reproved. (a. d. 57.)
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