"I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able {to bear it}, neither yet now are ye able." — 1 Corinthians 3:2

1 Corinthians 3:2 · KJV

“I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able {to bear it}, neither yet now are ye able.”

— 1 Corinthians 3:2

And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, {even} as unto babes in Christ.

For ye are yet carnal: for whereas {there is} among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? {divisions: or, factions} {as men: Gr. according to man?}

1 Corinthians 3 — Context

And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, {even} as unto babes in Christ.

I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able {to bear it}, neither yet now are ye able.

For ye are yet carnal: for whereas {there is} among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? {divisions: or, factions} {as men: Gr. according to man?}

For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I {am} of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

Cross References

Hebrews 5:11-14

Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.

John 16:12

I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.

1 Peter 2:2

As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: