³³ With many similar parables Jesus spoke the word to them, as much as they could understand.^(A)

⁴ I have told you this, so that when their time comes you will remember^(A) that I warned you about them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was with you,^(B)

¹² “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear.^(A)

The Church and Its Leaders

3 Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit^(A) but as people who are still worldly^(B)—mere infants^(C) in Christ.

² I gave you milk, not solid food,^(A) for you were not yet ready for it.^(B) Indeed, you are still not ready.

⁹ Be careful, however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling block^(A) to the weak.^(B)