1 Corinthians 3:1-4

Divisions in the Church

¹ But I, brothers, ₁ could not address you as _a spiritual people, but as _b people of the flesh, as _c infants in Christ. ² _d I fed you with milk, not solid food, for _e you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, ³ for you are still of the flesh. For while there is _f jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? ⁴ For _g when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," _h are you not being merely human?

1. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 2:15
   The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.
   Romans 7:14
   For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.
   
2. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 2:14
   The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
   
3. Cross References
   Hebrews 5:13
   For everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child.
   1 Corinthians 2:6
   Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.
   
4. Cross References
   Hebrews 5:12 - 13
   For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food.
   1 Peter 2:2
   Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation -
   
5. Cross References
   John 16:12
   I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.
   
6. Cross References
   Galatians 5:19 - 20
   Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality.
   1 Corinthians 1:11
   For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers.
   1 Corinthians 11:18
   For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part.
   Romans 13:13
   Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.
   
7. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 1:12
   What I mean is that each one of you says, "I follow Paul," or "I follow Apollos," or "I follow Cephas," or "I follow Christ.
   
8. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 3:3
   For you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?