1 Corinthians 3:1

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And I, brothers and sisters, could not speak to you as spiritual people but as those who are worldly, as infants in Christ.

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  • 1 Cor 2:14-15 : 14 But the natural person does not accept the things of God's Spirit, because they are foolishness to him. He cannot understand them because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual person examines all things, but he himself is not subject to being examined by anyone.
  • Rom 7:14 : 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
  • 1 Cor 2:6 : 6 Now, we do speak wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are passing away.
  • 1 Cor 14:20 : 20 Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in regard to evil, but in your thinking be mature.
  • Gal 6:1 : 1 Brothers, if someone is caught in any wrongdoing, you who are spiritual should restore such a person with a gentle spirit. Watch yourself, so that you too might not be tempted.
  • Eph 4:13-14 : 13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, into a mature man, to the measure of the stature that belongs to the fullness of Christ. 14 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed by the waves and blown around by every wind of teaching, by human cunning with cleverness in the techniques of deceit.
  • Heb 5:13 : 13 For everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is still an infant.
  • 1 John 2:12 : 12 I am writing to you, dear children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of His name.
  • 1 Cor 3:3-4 : 3 For you are still worldly. Since there is jealousy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not worldly and living like mere humans? 4 For when someone says, 'I follow Paul,' and another, 'I follow Apollos,' are you not acting like mere humans?
  • Matt 16:23 : 23 But Jesus turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, because you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns."

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  • 1 Cor 3:2-4
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    2I fed you with milk, not solid food, because you were not able to receive it. Even now, you are still not able.

    3For you are still worldly. Since there is jealousy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not worldly and living like mere humans?

    4For when someone says, 'I follow Paul,' and another, 'I follow Apollos,' are you not acting like mere humans?

  • Heb 5:11-14
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    11We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain because you have become dull in hearing.

    12By this time you ought to be teachers, but instead you need someone to teach you again the elementary truths of God's word, and you need milk, not solid food.

    13For everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is still an infant.

    14But solid food is for the mature, those who through practice have trained their senses to discern good from evil.

  • 1 Pet 2:2
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    2Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk so that by it you may grow in your salvation,

  • 1 Cor 14:20
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    20Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in regard to evil, but in your thinking be mature.

  • 1 Thess 2:7
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    7Although we could have asserted our authority as apostles of Christ, we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother caring for her own children.

  • 1 Cor 13:11
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    11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became an adult, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

  • 1 Cor 12:1
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    1Now, concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be unaware.

  • 1 Cor 2:1-4
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    1And when I came to you, brothers, I did not come with superior speech or wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony of God.

    2For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.

    3I came to you in weakness, fear, and great trembling.

    4My message and my preaching were not based on persuasive words of human wisdom but on a demonstration of the Spirit and of power.

  • 1 Cor 2:13-14
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    13We also speak these things, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit—explaining spiritual truths to spiritual people.

    14But the natural person does not accept the things of God's Spirit, because they are foolishness to him. He cannot understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

  • Gal 4:12-13
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    12I beg you, brothers: Become like me, for I also became like you. You have done me no wrong.

    13You know that it was because of a weakness in my flesh that I first preached the gospel to you.

  • 1 Cor 4:14-15
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    14I am not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my beloved children.

    15For even if you have countless teachers in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the gospel.

  • Gal 3:3
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    3Are you so foolish? After beginning by the Spirit, are you now trying to complete it by human effort?

  • Rom 1:13
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    13I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you (but was prevented until now), in order that I might have some fruit among you, just as I have among the other Gentiles.

  • 1 Cor 1:17
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    17For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel—not with wisdom and eloquence, so that the cross of Christ would not be made void.

  • Isa 28:9
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    9Who is He trying to teach knowledge to? Who is He explaining His message to? To those just weaned from milk, those just taken from the breast?

  • 1 Cor 10:15
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    15I speak to wise people; judge for yourselves what I say.

  • John 3:6
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    6What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

  • 2 Cor 10:2-3
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    2I beg you that when I am present, I will not have to be bold with the confidence I consider using against some, who think we live according to the flesh.

    3For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh.

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    8For this reason, although I have great boldness in Christ to command you to do what is right,

  • 1 Cor 9:11
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    11If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?

  • Gal 4:19
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    19My dear children, I am again suffering birth pains for you until Christ is formed in you.

  • 2 Cor 3:3
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    3It is clear that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

  • 2 Cor 13:3
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    3Since you are looking for proof that Christ is speaking through me, who is not weak in dealing with you but is powerful among you.

  • 2 Cor 11:1
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    1I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Indeed, you are bearing with me.

  • Gal 4:3
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    3In the same way, we too, when we were children, were enslaved under the elemental principles of the world.

  • Gal 1:16
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    16to reveal His Son in me, so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with flesh and blood,

  • Gal 6:1
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    1Brothers, if someone is caught in any wrongdoing, you who are spiritual should restore such a person with a gentle spirit. Watch yourself, so that you too might not be tempted.

  • 1 Cor 15:46
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    46But it is not the spiritual that comes first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.

  • 1 Cor 10:3
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    3They all ate the same spiritual food.

  • 2 Cor 11:6
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    6Even if I am unskilled in speaking, I am not so in knowledge. Indeed, we have made this clear to you in every way and in all things.

  • Rom 1:11
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    11For I long to see you, that I may share with you some spiritual gift to strengthen you—

  • Rom 7:14
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    14For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6Brothers and sisters, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your sake, so that you may learn from us not to go beyond what is written. Then you will not be puffed up in being a follower of one of us over and against another.

  • Eph 4:20
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    20But that is not the way you learned Christ,

  • 1 Cor 1:12
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    12What I mean is this: One of you says, 'I follow Paul,' another, 'I follow Apollos,' another, 'I follow Cephas,' and still another, 'I follow Christ.'

  • 1 Cor 11:1
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    1Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.

  • Eph 3:3
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    3that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I have briefly written about earlier.

  • Phlm 1:16
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    16No longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a dearly loved brother. He is especially so to me, but even more to you, both in the physical relationship and in the Lord.