1 Corinthians 3:2-3

Divisions in the Church

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?

  1. 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 -
  2. Cross References
    John 16:12
    I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.
  3. 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.
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