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1 Corinthians 3:2
1 Corinthians 3:2 is verse 2 of 1 Corinthians chapter 3, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. In fact, you are still not ready,
King James Version
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.
World English Bible
I fed you with milk, not with solid food, for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now,
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1 Corinthians 3:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible
1 Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.
2 I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. In fact, you are still not ready,
3 for 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?
4 For when one of you says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere men?
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Hebrews 5:12Although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to reteach you the basic principles of God’s word. You need milk, not solid food!
Hebrews 5:13For everyone who lives on milk is still an infant, inexperienced in the message of righteousness.
Hebrews 5:14But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained their senses to distinguish good from evil.
1 Peter 2:2Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
John 16:12I still have much to tell you, but you cannot yet bear to hear it.
Hebrews 5:11We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain, because you are dull of hearing.