1 Corinthians 3:2
I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,
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- John 16:12 : 12 "I have yet many things to tell you, but you can't bear them now.
- 1 Pet 2:2 : 2 as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby,
- Heb 5:11-14 : 11 About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing. 12 For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food. 13 For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby. 14 But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.
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1 Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.
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11 About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.
12 For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.
13 For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.
14 But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.
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3 for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men?
4 For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," aren't you fleshly?
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2 as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby,
3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious:
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20 Brothers, don't be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
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7 But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
8 Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.
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12 "I have yet many things to tell you, but you can't bear them now.
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14 I don't write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
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3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?
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20 But you did not learn Christ that way;
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3 So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.
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9 Don't be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.
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3 and all ate the same spiritual food;
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19 My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you--
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1 Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don't want you to be ignorant.
2 You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.
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6 Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.
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6 But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.
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11 If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
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1 Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
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16 So Jesus said, "Do you also still not understand?
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3 You eat the fat, and you clothe yourself with the wool, you kill the fatlings; but you don't feed the sheep.
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15 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.
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5 For this cause I also, when I couldn't stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.
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15 What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.
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13 Now I don't desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.
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13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble.