1 Corinthians 3:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

I have fed you with milk, and not with solid food: for until now you were not able to bear it, neither yet now are you able.

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Referenced Verses

  • John 16:12 : 12 I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.
  • 1 Pet 2:2 : 2 As newborn babies, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby:
  • Heb 5:11-14 : 11 Of whom we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. 12 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 have come to need milk and not solid food. 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby. 14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

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    1And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, even as to infants in Christ.

  • Heb 5:11-14
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    11Of whom we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.

    12For 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 have come to need milk and not solid food.

    13For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

    14But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

  • 1 Cor 3:3-4
    2 verses
    80%

    3For you are still carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are you not carnal, and walk as men?

    4For while one says, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are you not carnal?

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    2As newborn babies, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby:

    3If indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

  • 1 Cor 14:20
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    20Brethren, do not be children in understanding; however, in malice be infants, but in understanding be mature.

  • 1 Thess 2:7-8
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    7But we were gentle among you, just as a nurse cherishes her children:

    8So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to impart to you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because you were dear to us.

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    9Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

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    11When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

  • John 16:12
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    12I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.

  • Gal 4:13
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    13You know that because of physical infirmity I preached the gospel to you at the first.

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

    15For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

  • Gal 3:3
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    3Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect by the flesh?

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

  • 1 Cor 2:13-14
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    13These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

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  • Eph 4:20
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    20But you have not so learned Christ,

  • Eph 4:14
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    3And all ate the same spiritual food;

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    3Since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who toward you is not weak, but is mighty in you.

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  • 2 Thess 3:8-9
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    8Nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it, but we worked with labor and toil night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you.

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    19My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you,

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  • 1 Cor 12:1-2
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    6And these things, brothers, I have applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that you may learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, so that none of you be puffed up for one against another.

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    6Even though I am unskilled in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been thoroughly revealed among you in all things.

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    11If we have sown spiritual things for you, is it a great thing if we reap your material things?

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    1We who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

  • Matt 15:16
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    16And Jesus said, Are you also still without understanding?

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    13Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will eat no meat as long as the world stands, lest I make my brother stumble.