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Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now, 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? For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you fleshly?

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Spiritual Immaturity

Brothers, I couldn’t talk to you as spiritual people but as worldly people, as mere infants in the Messiah.[a] I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, because you weren’t ready for it. And you’re still not ready! That’s because you are still worldly. As long as there is jealousy and quarreling among you, you are worldly and living by human standards, aren’t you? For when one person says, “I follow Paul,” and another person says, “I follow Apollos,” you’re following[b] your own human nature, aren’t you?

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 3:1 Or Christ
  2. 1 Corinthians 3:4 The Gk. lacks following