"For ye are yet carnal: for whereas {there is} among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk …" — 1 Corinthians 3:3

1 Corinthians 3:3 · KJV

“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 3:3

Verse 2

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.

Verse 4

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

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?

Who then is Paul, and who {is} Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

Cross References

James 3:16

For where envying and strife {is}, there {is} confusion and every evil work. {confusion: Gr. tumult, or, unquietness}

Galatians 5:15

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, {and} hating one another.

James 4:1-2

From whence {come} wars and fightings among you? {come they} not hence, {even} of your lusts that war in your members? {fightings: or, brawlings} {lusts: or, pleasures}

Ephesians 4:22-24

That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and {that} I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest {there be} debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

Galatians 5:19-21

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are {these}; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

1 Corinthians 1:11

For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them {which are of the house} of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.