1 Corinthians 3:1
Immaturity and Self-deception So, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.
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- 1 Cor 2:14-15 : 14 The unbeliever does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The one who is spiritual discerns all things, yet he himself is understood by no one.
- Rom 7:14 : 14 For we know that the law is spiritual– but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.
- 1 Cor 2:6 : 6 Wisdom from God Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing.
- 1 Cor 14:20 : 20 Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
- Gal 6:1 : 1 Support One Another Brothers and sisters, if a person is discovered in some sin, you who are spiritual restore such a person in a spirit of gentleness. Pay close attention to yourselves, so that you are not tempted too.
- Eph 4:13-14 : 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God– a mature person, attaining to the measure of Christ’s full stature. 14 So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.
- Heb 5:13 : 13 For everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced in the message of righteousness, because he is an infant.
- 1 John 2:12 : 12 Words of Reassurance I am writing to you, little children, that your sins have been forgiven because of his name.
- 1 Cor 3:3-4 : 3 for you are still influenced by the flesh. For since there is still jealousy and dissension among you, are you not influenced by the flesh and behaving like unregenerate people? 4 For whenever someone says,“I am with Paul,” or“I am with Apollos,” are you not merely human?
- Matt 16:23 : 23 But he turned and said to Peter,“Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, because you are not setting your mind on God’s interests, but on man’s.”
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2 I fed you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready. In fact, you are still not ready,
3 for you are still influenced by the flesh. For since there is still jealousy and dissension among you, are you not influenced by the flesh and behaving like unregenerate people?
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11 The Need to Move on to Maturity On this topic we have much to say and it is difficult to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.
12 For though you should in fact be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God’s utterances. You have gone back to needing milk, not solid food.
13 For everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced in the message of righteousness, because he is an infant.
14 But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.
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2 And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,
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2 For I decided to be concerned about nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
3 And I was with you in weakness and in fear and with much trembling.
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14 A Father’s Warning I am not writing these things to shame you, but to correct you as my dear children.
15 For though you may have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, because I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
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3 Are you so foolish? Although you began with the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by human effort?
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9 Who is the LORD trying to teach? To whom is he explaining a message? Those just weaned from milk! Those just taken from their mother’s breast!
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15 I am speaking to thoughtful people. Consider what I say.
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6 What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
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14 For we know that the law is spiritual– but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.
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20 But you did not learn about Christ like this,
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