1 Corinthians 3:1
Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.
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- 1 Cor 2:14-15 : 14 Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.
- Rom 7:14 : 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
- 1 Cor 2:6 : 6 We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing.
- 1 Cor 14:20 : 20 Brothers, don't be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
- Gal 6:1 : 1 Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren't tempted.
- Eph 4:13-14 : 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; 14 that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
- Heb 5:13 : 13 For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.
- 1 John 2:12 : 12 I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.
- 1 Cor 3:3-4 : 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?
- Matt 16:23 : 23 But he turned, and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling-block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men."
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2 I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,
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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11 About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.
12 For when by reason of the time you ought to 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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2 as newborn babes, long for the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby,
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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 of you, as when a nurse cherishes her own children.
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11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.
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1 Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don't want you to be ignorant.
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1 When I came to you, brothers, I didn't come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.
2 For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
3 I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.
4 My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
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13 Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.
14 Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
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12 I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,
13 but you know that because of weakness of the flesh I preached the Gospel to you the first time.
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14 I don't write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
15 For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Gospel.
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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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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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17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Gospel--not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn't be made void.
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9 Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to understand the message? those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?
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15 I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.
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6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
- 2 Cor 10:2-32 verses67%
2 Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.
3 For though we walk in the flesh, we don't wage war according to the flesh;
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8 Therefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,
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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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19 My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you--
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3 being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
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3 seeing that you seek a proof of Christ who speaks in me; who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you.
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1 I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.
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3 So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elements of the world.
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16 to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn't immediately confer with flesh and blood,
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1 Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren't tempted.
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46 However that which is spiritual isn't first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual.
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3 and all ate the same spiritual food;
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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 For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established;
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14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
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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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20 But you did not learn Christ that way;
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12 Now I mean this, that each one of you says, "I follow Paul," "I follow Apollos," "I follow Cephas," and, "I follow Christ."
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1 Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.
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3 how that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before in few words,
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16 no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.