1 Corinthians 3:1

American Standard Version (1901)

And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ.

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  • 1 Cor 2:14-15 : 14 Now the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged. 15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, and he himself is judged of no man.
  • Rom 7:14 : 14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
  • 1 Cor 2:6 : 6 We speak wisdom, however, among them that are fullgrown: yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nought:
  • 1 Cor 14:20 : 20 Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men.
  • Gal 6:1 : 1 Brethren, even if a man be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
  • Eph 4:13-14 : 13 till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a fullgrown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: 14 that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
  • Heb 5:13 : 13 For every one that partaketh of milk is without experience of the word of righteousness; for he is a babe.
  • 1 John 2:12 : 12 I write unto you, [my] little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.
  • 1 Cor 3:3-4 : 3 for ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk after the manner of men? 4 For when one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not men?
  • Matt 16:23 : 23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art a stumbling-block unto me: for thou mindest not the things of God, but the things of men.

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  • 1 Cor 3:2-4
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    2 I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able [to bear it] : nay, not even now are ye able;

    3 for ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk after the manner of men?

    4 For when one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not men?

  • Heb 5:11-14
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    11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard of interpretation, seeing ye are become dull of hearing.

    12 For when by reason of the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need again that some one teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.

    13 For every one that partaketh of milk is without experience of the word of righteousness; for he is a babe.

    14 But solid food is for fullgrown men, [even] those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

  • 1 Pet 2:2
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    2 as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation;

  • 1 Cor 14:20
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    20 Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men.

  • 1 Thess 2:7
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    7 But we were gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherisheth her own children:

  • 1 Cor 13:11
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    11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.

  • 1 Cor 12:1
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    1 Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brethren, I would not have you ignorant.

  • 1 Cor 2:1-4
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    1 And I, brethren, when I came unto you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

    2 For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

    3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

    4 And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

  • 1 Cor 2:13-14
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    13 Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit teacheth; combining spiritual things with spiritual [words] .

    14 Now the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged.

  • Gal 4:12-13
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    12 I beseech you, brethren, become as I [am], for I also [am become] as ye [are] . Ye did me no wrong:

    13 but ye know that because of an infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you the first time:

  • 1 Cor 4:14-15
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    14 I write not these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

    15 For though ye have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet [have ye] not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begat you through the gospel.

  • Gal 3:3
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    3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now perfected in the flesh?

  • Rom 1:13
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    13 And I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you (and was hindered hitherto), that I might have some fruit in you also, even as in the rest of the Gentiles.

  • 1 Cor 1:17
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    17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made void.

  • Isa 28:9
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    9 Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to understand the message? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?

  • 1 Cor 10:15
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    15 I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.

  • John 3:6
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    6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

  • 2 Cor 10:2-3
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    2 yea, I beseech you, that I may not when present show courage with the confidence wherewith I count to be bold against some, who count of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

    3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh

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    8 Wherefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to enjoin thee that which is befitting,

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    11 If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things?

  • Gal 4:19
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    19 My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you--

  • 2 Cor 3:3
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    3 being made manifest that ye are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in tables [that are] hearts of flesh.

  • 2 Cor 13:3
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    3 seeing that ye seek a proof of Christ that speaketh in me; who to you-ward is not weak, but is powerful in you:

  • 2 Cor 11:1
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    1 Would that ye could bear with me in a little foolishness: but indeed ye do bear with me.

  • Gal 4:3
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    3 So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world:

  • Gal 1:16
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    16 to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles; straightway I conferred not with flesh and blood:

  • Gal 6:1
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    1 Brethren, even if a man be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

  • 1 Cor 15:46
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    46 Howbeit that is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; then that which is spiritual.

  • 1 Cor 10:3
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    3 and did all eat the same spiritual food;

  • 2 Cor 11:6
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    6 But though [I be] rude in speech, yet [am I] not in knowledge; nay, in every way have we made [this] manifest unto you in all things.

  • Rom 1:11
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    11 For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;

  • Rom 7:14
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    14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6 Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not [to go] beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other.

  • Eph 4:20
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    20 But ye did not so learn Christ;

  • 1 Cor 1:12
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    12 Now this I mean, that each one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos: and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 11:1
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    1 Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

  • Eph 3:3
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    3 how that by revelation was made known unto me the mystery, as I wrote before in few words,

  • Phlm 1:16
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    16 no longer as a servant, but more than a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much rather to thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

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