1 Corinthians 3:1

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly -- as to babes in Christ;

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  • 1 Cor 2:14-15 : 14 and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know `them', because spiritually they are discerned; 15 and he who is spiritual, doth discern indeed all things, and he himself is by no one discerned;
  • Rom 7:14 : 14 for we have known that the law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by the sin;
  • 1 Cor 2:6 : 6 And wisdom we speak among the perfect, and wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age -- of those becoming useless,
  • 1 Cor 14:20 : 20 Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;
  • Gal 6:1 : 1 Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who `are' spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself -- lest thou also may be tempted;
  • Eph 4:13-14 : 13 till we may all come to the unity of the faith and of the recognition of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a measure of stature of the fulness of the Christ, 14 that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray,
  • Heb 5:13 : 13 for every one who is partaking of milk `is' unskilled in the word of righteousness -- for he is an infant,
  • 1 John 2:12 : 12 I write to you, little children, because the sins have been forgiven you through his name;
  • 1 Cor 3:3-4 : 3 for yet ye are fleshly, for where `there is' among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not fleshly, and in the manner of men do walk? 4 for when one may say, `I, indeed, am of Paul;' and another, `I -- of Apollos;' are ye not fleshly?
  • Matt 16:23 : 23 and he having turned, said to Peter, `Get thee behind me, adversary! thou art a stumbling-block to me, for thou dost not mind the things of God, but the things of men.'

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