Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.
Parallel translations
- KJV And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
- BSB Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.
- NKJV And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ.
- NASB And I, brothers and sisters, could not speak to you as spiritual people, but only as fleshly, as to infants in Christ.
- NLT Dear brothers and sisters, when I was with you I couldn’t talk to you as I would to spiritual people. I had to talk as though you belonged to this world or as though you were infants in Christ.
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Cross-references · 10
- Heb 5:13For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.
- 1 Cor 2:14–15Now 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.
- Eph 4:13–14until 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;
- 1 Cor 14:20Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
- 1 Cor 2:6We 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.
- Rom 7:14For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
- 1 Cor 3:3–4for 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?
- 1 Jn 2:12I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.
- Gal 6:1Brothers, 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.
- Matt 16:23But 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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