1 Corinthians 3:1 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ And I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual ones but as to fleshly, as to babes in Messiah.

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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.

1 Corinthians 3:1 Cross References

Matthew 16:23

But He turned and said to Kĕ

Romans 7:14

For we know that the Torah is Spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers, do not be children in your thinking, but in evil be babes, and in your thinking be perfect.

1 Corinthians 14:37

If anyone thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge what I write to you, that they are a command of the Master.

1 Corinthians 2:6

Yet we speak wisdom among those who are perfect, and not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age that are being brought to naught.

Galatians 6:1

Brothers, if a man is overtaken in some trespass, you the spiritual ones, set such a one straight in a spirit of meekness, looking at yourself lest you be tried too.

Hebrews 5:13

For everyone partaking of milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe.

1 John 2:12

I write to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of His Name.