1 Corinthians 3:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ And so, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people but rather as fleshly, as infants in Christ.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ 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!]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ.

Common English Bible

¹ Brothers and sisters, I couldn’t talk to you like spiritual people but like unspiritual people, like babies in Christ.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ And so, brothers, I was not able to speak to you as if to those who are spiritual, but rather as if to those who are carnal. For you are like infants in Christ.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ AND I, brethren, could not speak to you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal. As unto little ones in Christ.

1 Corinthians 3:1 Cross References

Matthew 16:23

But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me, for you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.”

Romans 7:14

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold into slavery under sin.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking; rather, be infants in evil, but in thinking be adults.

1 Corinthians 14:37

Anyone who claims to be a prophet or spiritual must acknowledge that what I am writing to you is a command of the Lord.

1 Corinthians 2:6

Yet among the mature we do speak wisdom, though it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are being destroyed.

Galatians 6:1

My brothers and sisters, if anyone is detected in a transgression, you who have received the Spirit should restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness. Take care that you yourselves are not tempted.

Hebrews 5:13

for everyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is unskilled in the word of righteousness.

1 John 2:12

I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven on account of his name.