1 Corinthians 3:2 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

² For I fed you with milk, not with solid food [i.e., with basic fundamentals instead of more advanced teaching. See Heb. 5:12-13] because you were not able to absorb it,

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not yet strong enough [to be ready for it]; but even yet you are not strong enough [to be ready for it],

American Standard Version (1901)

² I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able to bear it: nay, not even now are ye able;

Common English Bible

² I gave you milk to drink instead of solid food, because you weren’t up to it yet.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² I gave you milk to drink, not solid food. For you were not yet able. And indeed, even now, you are not able; for you are still carnal.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² I gave you milk to drink, not meat; for you were not able as yet. But neither indeed are you now able; for you are yet carnal.

1 Corinthians 3:2 Cross References

John 16:12

“I still have many things to tell you, but you cannot bear [to hear] them at present.

1 Peter 2:2

[So], like newly born babies, you should desire the genuine, spiritual milk [i.e., God’s word. See Heb. 5:12-13], so that by it you may grow toward [final] salvation,