1 Corinthians 3:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I gave you milk and not meat, because you were, then, unable to take it, and even now you are not able;

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Referenced Verses

  • John 16:12 : 12 I have still much to say to you, but you are not strong enough for it now.
  • 1 Pet 2:2 : 2 Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;
  • Heb 5:11-14 : 11 Of whom we have much to say which it is hard to make clear, because you are slow of hearing. 12 And though by this time it would be right for you to be teachers, you still have need of someone to give you teaching about the first simple rules of God's revelation; you have become like babies who have need of milk, and not of solid food. 13 For everyone who takes milk is without experience of the word of righteousness: he is a child. 14 But solid food is for men of full growth, even for those whose senses are trained by use to see what is good and what is evil.

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  • 1 Cor 3:1
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    1 And the teaching I gave you, my brothers, was such as I was able to give, not to those who have the Spirit, but to those who are still in the flesh, even to children in Christ.

  • Heb 5:11-14
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    11 Of whom we have much to say which it is hard to make clear, because you are slow of hearing.

    12 And though by this time it would be right for you to be teachers, you still have need of someone to give you teaching about the first simple rules of God's revelation; you have become like babies who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

    13 For everyone who takes milk is without experience of the word of righteousness: he is a child.

    14 But solid food is for men of full growth, even for those whose senses are trained by use to see what is good and what is evil.

  • 1 Cor 3:3-4
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    3 Because you are still in the flesh: for when there is envy and division among you, are you not still walking after the way of the flesh, even as natural men?

    4 For when one says, I am of Paul; and another says, I am of Apollos; are you not talking like natural men?

  • 1 Pet 2:2-3
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    2 Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;

    3 If you have had a taste of the grace of the Lord:

  • 1 Cor 14:20
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    20 My brothers, do not be children in mind: in evil be as little children, but in mind be of full growth.

  • 1 Thess 2:7-8
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    7 But we were gentle among you, like a woman caring for her little ones:

    8 Even so, being full of loving desire for you, we took delight in giving you not only God's good news, but even our lives, because you were dear to us.

  • Isa 28:9
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    9 To whom will he give knowledge? and to whom will he make clear the word? Will it be to those who have newly given up milk, and who have only now been taken from the breast?

  • 1 Cor 13:11
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    11 When I was a child, I made use of a child's language, I had a child's feelings and a child's thoughts: now that I am a man, I have put away the things of a child.

  • John 16:12
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    12 I have still much to say to you, but you are not strong enough for it now.

  • Gal 4:13
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    13 But you have knowledge that with a feeble body I was preaching the good news to you the first time;

  • 1 Cor 4:14-15
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    14 I am not saying these things to put you to shame, but so that, as my dear children, you may see what is right.

    15 For even if you had ten thousand teachers in Christ, you have not more than one father: for in Christ Jesus I have given birth to you through the good news.

  • Gal 3:3
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    3 Are you so foolish? having made a start in the Spirit, will you now be made complete in the flesh?

  • 1 Cor 2:3
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    3 And I was with you without strength, in fear and in doubt.

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    13 And these are the things which we say, not in the language of man's wisdom, but in words given to us by the Spirit, judging the things of the spirit by the help of the Spirit.

    14 For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit.

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    6 If you keep these things before the minds of the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, trained in the words of the faith and of the right teaching which has been your guide:

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    1 Put up with me if I am a little foolish: but, truly, you do put up with me.

  • Eph 4:20
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    20 For this was not the teaching of Christ which was given to you;

  • Eph 4:14
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    14 So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error;

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    3 For you are clearly a letter of Christ, the fruit of our work, recorded not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in stone, but in hearts of flesh.

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    3 So we, when we were young, were kept under the first rules of the world;

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    9 Do not be turned away by different strange teachings, because it is good for your hearts to be made strong by grace, and not by meats, which were of no profit to those who took so much trouble over them.

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    3 And they all took the same holy food;

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    3 Seeing that you are looking for a sign of Christ giving out his word in me; who is not feeble in relation to you, but is strong in you:

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    9 But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?

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    8 And we did not take food from any man for nothing, but were working hard night and day not to be a trouble to any of you:

    9 Not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, so that you might do the same.

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    19 My children, of whom I am again in birth-pains till Christ is formed in you,

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    15 And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus.

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    14 This is now the third time that I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a trouble to you: my desire is for you, not for your property: for it is not the children's business to make store for their fathers, but the fathers for the children.

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    1 But about the things of the spirit, my brothers, it is not right for you to be without teaching.

    2 You are conscious that when you were Gentiles, in whatever way you were guided, you went after images without voice or power.

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    6 My brothers, it is because of you that I have taken Apollos and myself as examples of these things, so that in us you might see that it is not wise to go farther than what is in the holy Writings, so that no one of you may be lifted up against his brother.

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    6 But though I am rough in my way of talking, I am not so in knowledge, as we have made clear to all by our acts among you.

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    11 If we have been planting the things of the Spirit for you, does it seem a great thing for you to give us a part in your things of this world?

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    16 And he said, Are you, like them, still without wisdom?

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    3 You take the milk and are clothed with the wool, you put the fat beasts to death, but you give the sheep no food.

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    5 For this reason, when I was no longer able to keep quiet, I sent to get news of your faith, fearing that you might be tested by the Evil One and that our work might come to nothing.

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    15 Where then is that happy condition of yours? because I give you witness, that, if possible, you would have taken out your eyes and given them to me.

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    13 You may be certain, my brothers, that it has frequently been in my mind to come to you (but till now I was kept from it), so that I might have some fruit from you in the same way as I have had it from the other nations.

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    13 For this reason, if food is a cause of trouble to my brother, I will give up taking meat for ever, so that I may not be a cause of trouble to my brother.