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Sectarianism Is Carnal

1 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to ababes in Christ.  
2 I fed you with amilk and not with solid food; bfor until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able;  
3 for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and1 behaving like mere men?  
4 For when one says, “I am of Paul,” and another, “I am of Apollos,” are you not carnal?

Watering, Working, Warning

5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but aministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one?  
6 aI planted, bApollos watered, cbut God gave the increase.  
7 So then aneither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.  
8 Now he who plants and he who waters are one, aand each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.  
9 For awe are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are bGod’s building.  
10 aAccording to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid bthe foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it.  
11 For no other foundation can anyone lay than athat which is laid, bwhich is Jesus Christ.  
12 Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,
13 each one’s work will become clear; for the Day awill declare it, because bit will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is.  
14 If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward.
15 If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.
16 aDo you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?  
17 If anyone1 defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.  

Avoid Worldly Wisdom

18 aLet no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.  
19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, a“He catches the wise in their own craftiness”;  
Verse Comparison: 1 Corinthians 3:1

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American Standard Version
And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ.

Amplified® Bible
HOWEVER, BRETHREN, I could not talk to you as to spiritual [men], but as to nonspiritual [men of the flesh, in whom the carnal nature predominates], as to mere infants [in the new life] in Christ [unable to talk yet!]

Contemporary English Version
My friends, you are acting like the people of this world. That's why I could not speak to you as spiritual people. You are like babies as far as your faith in Christ is concerned.

Darby English Version
And *I*, brethren, have not been able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly; as to babes in Christ.

Good News Bible
As a matter of fact, my friends, I could not talk to you as I talk to people who have the Spirit; I had to talk to you as though you belonged to this world, as children in the Christian faith.

International Standard Version
Brothers, I couldn't talk to you as spiritual people but as worldly people, as mere infants in Christ.

King James Version
And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.

New American Standard Bible
And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to infants in Christ.

New International Version
Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual but as worldly—mere infants in Christ.

New King James Version
And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to infants in Christ.

Young's Literal Translation
And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly -- as to babes in Christ;


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