1 Corinthians 3:1

Paul says he had to address the Corinthians as worldly, immature believers rather than spiritually mature ones. Their divisions exposed their lack of spiritual growth.

Cross-references · 10

• Heb 5:13For everyone who lives on milk is still an infant, inexperienced in the message of righteousness.
• 1 Cor 2:14–15The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
• Eph 4:13–14until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, as we mature to the full measure of the stature of Christ.
• 1 Cor 14:20Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
• 1 Cor 2:6Among the mature, however, we speak a message of wisdom—but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
• Rom 7:14We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
• 1 Cor 3:3–4for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man?
• 1 Jn 2:12I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven through His name.
• Gal 6:1Brothers, if someone is caught in a trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him with a spirit of gentleness. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted.
• Matt 16:23But Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me. For you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.”

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