Friday, May 13, 2016
1 Corinthians 9 ~ B. The Problems of the Unmarried ~ The Principles Illustrated
1 Corinthians 9 NLT
1 Am I not as free as anyone else? Am I
not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus our Lord with my own eyes? Isn’t it
because of my work that you belong to the Lord?
2 Even if others think I am not an
apostle, I certainly am to you. You yourselves are proof that I am the Lord’s
apostle.
3 This is my answer to those who question
my authority.
4 Don’t we have the right to live in your
homes and share your meals?
5 Don’t we have the right to bring a
believing wife with us as the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers do, and as
Peter does?
6 Or is it only Barnabas and I who have to
work to support ourselves?
7 What soldier has to pay his own
expenses? What farmer plants a vineyard and doesn’t have the right to eat some
of its fruit? What shepherd cares for a flock of sheep and isn’t allowed to
drink some of the milk?
8 Am I expressing merely a human opinion,
or does the law say the same thing?
9 For the law of Moses says, “You must not
muzzle an ox to keep it from eating as it treads out the grain.” Was God
thinking only about oxen when he said this?
10Wasn’t he actually speaking to us? Yes, it was
written for us, so that the one who plows and the one who threshes the grain
might both expect a share of the harvest.
11 Since we have planted spiritual seed
among you, aren’t we entitled to a harvest of physical food and drink?
12 If you support others who preach to you,
shouldn’t we have an even greater right to be supported? But we have never used
this right. We would rather put up with anything than be an obstacle to the
Good News about Christ.
13 Don’t you realize that those who work in
the temple get their meals from the offerings brought to the temple? And those
who serve at the altar get a share of the sacrificial offerings.
14 In the same way, the Lord ordered that
those who preach the Good News should be supported by those who benefit from
it.
15 Yet I have never used any of these
rights. And I am not writing this to suggest that I want to start now. In fact,
I would rather die than lose my right to boast about preaching without
charge.
16 Yet preaching the Good News is not
something I can boast about. I am compelled by God to do it. How terrible for
me if I didn’t preach the Good News!
17 If I were doing this on my own
initiative, I would deserve payment. But I have no choice, for God has given me
this sacred trust.
18 What then is my pay? It is the
opportunity to preach the Good News without charging anyone. That’s why I never
demand my rights when I preach the Good News.
19 Even though I am a free man with no
master, I have become a slave to all people to bring many to Christ.
20 When I was with the Jews, I lived like a
Jew to bring the Jews to Christ. When I was with those who follow the Jewish
law, I too lived under that law. Even though I am not subject to the law, I did
this so I could bring to Christ those who are under the law.
21 When I am with the Gentiles who do not
follow the Jewish law, I too live apart from that law so I can bring them to
Christ. But I do not ignore the law of God; I obey the law of Christ.
22 When I am with those who are weak, I
share their weakness, for I want to bring the weak to Christ. Yes, I try to
find common ground with everyone, doing everything I can to save some.
23 I do everything to spread the Good News
and share in its blessings.
24 Don’t you realize that in a race
everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize? So run to win!
25 All athletes are disciplined in their
training. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an
eternal prize.
26 So I run with purpose in every step. I
am not just shadowboxing.
27 I discipline my body like an athlete,
training it to do what it should. Otherwise, I fear that after preaching to
others I myself might be disqualified.
Thursday, May 12, 2016
1 Corinthians 8 ~ V. Instruction on Questionable Practices ~ The Principles Involved
1 Corinthians 8 NLT
1 Now regarding your question about food
that has been offered to idols. Yes, we know that “we all have knowledge” about
this issue. But while knowledge makes us feel important, it is love that
strengthens the church.
2Anyone who claims to know all the answers
doesn’t really know very much.
3But the person who loves God is the one whom
God recognizes.
4 So, what about eating meat that has been
offered to idols? Well, we all know that an idol is not really a god and that
there is only one God.
5 There may be so-called gods both in
heaven and on earth, and some people actually worship many gods and many
lords.
6 But for us, There is one God, the
Father, by whom all things were created, and for whom we live. And there is one
Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things were created, and through whom we
live.
7 However, not all believers know this.
Some are accustomed to thinking of idols as being real, so when they eat food
that has been offered to idols, they think of it as the worship of real gods,
and their weak consciences are violated.
8 It’s true that we can’t win God’s
approval by what we eat. We don’t lose anything if we don’t eat it, and we
don’t gain anything if we do.
9 But you must be careful so that your
freedom does not cause others with a weaker conscience to stumble.
10 For if others see you—with your
“superior knowledge”—eating in the temple of an idol, won’t they be encouraged
to violate their conscience by eating food that has been offered to an
idol?
11So because of your superior knowledge, a weak
believer for whom Christ died will be destroyed.
12 And when you sin against other believers
by encouraging them to do something they believe is wrong, you are sinning
against Christ.
13 So if what I eat causes another believer
to sin, I will never eat meat again as long as I live—for I don’t want to cause
another believer to stumble.
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
1 Corinthians Chapter 7 IV. Instruction on Marriage
1 Corinthians 7 NLT
1 Now regarding the questions you asked in
your letter. Yes, it is good to abstain from sexual relations.
2 But because there is so much sexual
immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her
own husband.
3 The husband should fulfill his wife’s
sexual needs, and the wife should fulfill her husband’s needs.
4 The wife gives authority over her body
to her husband, and the husband gives authority over his body to his
wife.
5 Do not deprive each other of sexual
relations, unless you both agree to refrain from sexual intimacy for a limited
time so you can give yourselves more completely to prayer. Afterward, you
should come together again so that Satan won’t be able to tempt you because of
your lack of self-control.
6 I say this as a concession, not as a
command.
7 But I wish everyone were single, just as
I am. Yet each person has a special gift from God, of one kind or
another.
8 So I say to those who aren’t married and
to widows—it’s better to stay unmarried, just as I am.
9 But if they can’t control themselves,
they should go ahead and marry. It’s better to marry than to burn with
lust.
10 But for those who are married, I have a
command that comes not from me, but from the Lord. A wife must not leave her
husband.
11 But if she does leave him, let her
remain single or else be reconciled to him. And the husband must not leave his
wife.
12 Now, I will speak to the rest of you,
though I do not have a direct command from the Lord. If a fellow believer has a
wife who is not a believer and she is willing to continue living with him, he
must not leave her.
13 And if a believing woman has a husband
who is not a believer and he is willing to continue living with her, she must
not leave him.
14 For the believing wife brings holiness
to her marriage, and the believing husband brings holiness to his marriage.
Otherwise, your children would not be holy, but now they are holy.
15 (But if the husband or wife who isn’t a
believer insists on leaving, let them go. In such cases the believing husband
or wife is no longer bound to the other, for God has called you to live in
peace.)
16 Don’t you wives realize that your
husbands might be saved because of you? And don’t you husbands realize that your
wives might be saved because of you?
17 Each of you should continue to live in
whatever situation the Lord has placed you, and remain as you were when God
first called you. This is my rule for all the churches.
18 For instance, a man who was circumcised
before he became a believer should not try to reverse it. And the man who was
uncircumcised when he became a believer should not be circumcised now.
19 For it makes no difference whether or
not a man has been circumcised. The important thing is to keep God’s
commandments.
20Yes, each of you should remain as you were
when God called you.
21 Are you a slave? Don’t let that worry
you—but if you get a chance to be free, take it.
22 And remember, if you were a slave when
the Lord called you, you are now free in the Lord. And if you were free when
the Lord called you, you are now a slave of Christ.
23 God paid a high price for you, so don’t
be enslaved by the world.
24 Each of you, dear brothers and sisters,
should remain as you were when God first called you.
25 Now regarding your question about the
young women who are not yet married. I do not have a command from the Lord for
them. But the Lord in his mercy has given me wisdom that can be trusted, and I
will share it with you.
26 Because of the present crisis, I think
it is best to remain as you are.
27 If you have a wife, do not seek to end
the marriage. If you do not have a wife, do not seek to get married.
28 But if you do get married, it is not a
sin. And if a young woman gets married, it is not a sin. However, those who get
married at this time will have troubles, and I am trying to spare you those
problems.
29 But let me say this, dear brothers and
sisters: The time that remains is very short. So from now on, those with wives
should not focus only on their marriage.
30 Those who weep or who rejoice or who buy
things should not be absorbed by their weeping or their joy or their
possessions.
31 Those who use the things of the world
should not become attached to them. For this world as we know it will soon pass
away.
32 I want you to be free from the concerns
of this life. An unmarried man can spend his time doing the Lord’s work and
thinking how to please him.
33 But a married man has to think about his
earthly responsibilities and how to please his wife.
34 His interests are divided. In the same
way, a woman who is no longer married or has never been married can be devoted
to the Lord and holy in body and in spirit. But a married woman has to think
about her earthly responsibilities and how to please her husband.
35 I am saying this for your benefit, not
to place restrictions on you. I want you to do whatever will help you serve the
Lord best, with as few distractions as possible.
36 But if a man thinks that he’s treating
his fiancée improperly and will inevitably give in to his passion, let him
marry her as he wishes. It is not a sin.
37 But if he has decided firmly not to
marry and there is no urgency and he can control his passion, he does well not
to marry.
38 So the person who marries his fiancée
does well, and the person who doesn’t marry does even better.
39 A wife is bound to her husband as long
as he lives. If her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, but
only if he loves the Lord.
40 But in my opinion it would be better for
her to stay single, and I think I am giving you counsel from God’s Spirit when
I say this.
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
1 Corinthians B. Sexual Immorality (6:12-20)
1 Corinthians 6 NLT
12 You say, “I am allowed to do anything”—but not everything is good for you. And even though “I am allowed to do anything,” I must not become a slave to anything.
13 You say, “Food was made for the stomach, and the stomach for food.” (This is true, though someday God will do away with both of them.) But you can’t say that our bodies were made for sexual immorality. They were made for the Lord, and the Lord cares about our bodies.
14 And God will raise us from the dead by his power, just as he raised our Lord from the dead.
15 Don’t you realize that your bodies are actually parts of Christ? Should a man take his body, which is part of Christ, and join it to a prostitute? Never!
16 And don’t you realize that if a man joins himself to a prostitute, he becomes one body with her? For the Scriptures say, “The two are united into one.”
17 But the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him.
18 Run from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body.
19 Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself,
20 for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.
Monday, May 9, 2016
1 Corinthians A. Lawsuits before Non-Christian Judges (6:1-11)
1 Corinthians 6 NLT
1 When one of you has a dispute with
another believer, how dare you file a lawsuit and ask a secular court to decide
the matter instead of taking it to other believers !
2 Don’t you realize that someday we
believers will judge the world? And since you are going to judge the world,
can’t you decide even these little things among yourselves?
3 Don’t you realize that we will judge
angels? So you should surely be able to resolve ordinary disputes in this life.
4 If you have legal disputes about such
matters, why go to outside judges who are not respected by the church?
5 I am saying this to shame you. Isn’t
there anyone in all the church who is wise enough to decide these issues?
6But instead, one believer sues another—right
in front of unbelievers!
7 Even to have such lawsuits with one
another is a defeat for you. Why not just accept the injustice and leave it at
that? Why not let yourselves be cheated?
8 Instead, you yourselves are the ones who
do wrong and cheat even your fellow believers.
9 Don’t you realize that those who do
wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t fool yourselves. Those who
indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male
prostitutes, or practice homosexuality,
10 or are thieves, or greedy people, or
drunkards, or are abusive, or cheat people—none of these will inherit the
Kingdom of God.
11 Some of you were once like that. But you were
cleansed; you were made holy; you were made right with God by calling on the
name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Sunday, May 8, 2016
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Saturday, May 7, 2016
1 Corinthians Chapter 5 Laxity in Church Discipline
1 Corinthians 5 NLT
1 I can hardly believe the report about
the sexual immorality going on among you—something that even pagans don’t do. I
am told that a man in your church is living in sin with his stepmother.
2 You are so proud of yourselves, but you
should be mourning in sorrow and shame. And you should remove this man from
your fellowship.
3 Even though I am not with you in person,
I am with you in the Spirit. And as though I were there, I have already passed
judgment on this man
4 in the name of the Lord Jesus. You must
call a meeting of the church. I will be present with you in spirit, and so will
the power of our Lord Jesus.
5 Then you must throw this man out and
hand him over to Satan so that his sinful nature will be destroyed and he
himself will be saved on the day the Lord returns.
6 Your boasting about this is terrible.
Don’t you realize that this sin is like a little yeast that spreads through the
whole batch of dough?
7 Get rid of the old “yeast” by removing
this wicked person from among you. Then you will be like a fresh batch of dough
made without yeast, which is what you really are. Christ, our Passover Lamb,
has been sacrificed for us.
8 So let us celebrate the festival, not
with the old bread of wickedness and evil, but with the new bread of sincerity
and truth.
9 When I wrote to you before, I told you
not to associate with people who indulge in sexual sin.
10But I wasn’t talking about unbelievers who
indulge in sexual sin, or are greedy, or cheat people, or worship idols. You
would have to leave this world to avoid people like that.
11 I meant that you are not to associate
with anyone who claims to be a believer yet indulges in sexual sin, or is
greedy, or worships idols, or is abusive, or is a drunkard, or cheats people.
Don’t even eat with such people.
12 It isn’t my responsibility to judge
outsiders, but it certainly is your responsibility to judge those inside the
church who are sinning.
13 God will judge those on the outside; but
as the Scriptures say, “You must remove the evil person from among you.”
Friday, May 6, 2016
1 Corinthians C. The Exhortation to End the Divisions (4:14-21)
1 Corinthians 4 NLT
14 I am not writing these things to shame
you, but to warn you as my beloved children.
15 For even if you had ten thousand others
to teach you about Christ, you have only one spiritual father. For I became
your father in Christ Jesus when I preached the Good News to you.
16 So I urge you to imitate me.
17 That’s why I have sent Timothy, my
beloved and faithful child in the Lord. He will remind you of how I follow
Christ Jesus, just as I teach in all the churches wherever I go.
18 Some of you have become arrogant,
thinking I will not visit you again.
19 But I will come—and soon—if the Lord
lets me, and then I’ll find out whether these arrogant people just give
pretentious speeches or whether they really have God’s power.
20 For the Kingdom of God is not just a lot
of talk; it is living by God’s power.
21 Which do you choose? Should I come with
a rod to punish you, or should I come with love and a gentle spirit?
1 Corinthians Introduction (1:1-9) Divisions in the Church (1:10;4:21) The Fact of the Divisions (1:10-17) The Causes of the Divisions (1:18;4:13) 3. A wrong conception of the Christian (4:6-13)
1 Corinthians 4 NLT
6 Dear brothers and sisters, I have used
Apollos and myself to illustrate what I’ve been saying. If you pay attention to
what I have quoted from the Scriptures, you won’t be proud of one of your
leaders at the expense of another.
7 For what gives you the right to make
such a judgment? What do you have that God hasn’t given you? And if everything
you have is from God, why boast as though it were not a gift?
8You think you already have everything you
need. You think you are already rich. You have begun to reign in God’s kingdom
without us! I wish you really were reigning already, for then we would be
reigning with you.
9 Instead, I sometimes think God has put
us apostles on display, like prisoners of war at the end of a victor’s parade,
condemned to die. We have become a spectacle to the entire world—to people and
angels alike.
10 Our dedication to Christ makes us look
like fools, but you claim to be so wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are so
powerful! You are honored, but we are ridiculed.
11 Even now we go hungry and thirsty, and
we don’t have enough clothes to keep warm. We are often beaten and have no
home.
12 We work wearily with our own hands to
earn our living. We bless those who curse us. We are patient with those who
abuse us.
13 We appeal gently when evil things are
said about us. Yet we are treated like the world’s garbage, like everybody’s
trash—right up to the present moment.
Thursday, May 5, 2016
1 Corinthians Introduction (1:1-9) Divisions in the Church (1:10;4:21) The Fact of the Divisions (1:10-17) The Causes of the Divisions (1:18;4:13) 2. A wrong conception of Christian ministry and ministers (3:5;4:5)
1 Corinthians 3 NLT
5 After all, who is Apollos? Who is Paul?
We are only God’s servants through whom you believed the Good News. Each of us
did the work the Lord gave us.
6 I planted the seed in your hearts, and
Apollos watered it, but it was God who made it grow.
7 It’s not important who does the
planting, or who does the watering. What’s important is that God makes the seed
grow.
8 The one who plants and the one who
waters work together with the same purpose. And both will be rewarded for their
own hard work.
9 For we are both God’s workers. And you
are God’s field. You are God’s building.
10 Because of God’s grace to me, I have
laid the foundation like an expert builder. Now others are building on it. But
whoever is building on this foundation must be very careful.
11 For no one can lay any foundation other
than the one we already have—Jesus Christ.
12 Anyone who builds on that foundation may
use a variety of materials—gold, silver, jewels, wood, hay, or straw.
13 But on the judgment day, fire will
reveal what kind of work each builder has done. The fire will show if a
person’s work has any value.
14 If the work survives, that builder will
receive a reward.
15 But if the work is burned up, the
builder will suffer great loss. The builder will be saved, but like someone
barely escaping through a wall of flames.
16 Don’t you realize that all of you
together are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives in you?
17God will destroy anyone who destroys this temple.
For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.
18 Stop deceiving yourselves. If you think
you are wise by this world’s standards, you need to become a fool to be truly
wise.
19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness to
God. As the Scriptures say, “He traps the wise in the snare of their own
cleverness.”
20 And again, “The LORD knows the thoughts
of the wise; he knows they are worthless.”
21 So don’t boast about following a
particular human leader. For everything belongs to you—
22 whether Paul or Apollos or Peter, or the
world, or life and death, or the present and the future. Everything belongs to
you,
23 and you belong to Christ, and Christ
belongs to God.
1 Corinthians 4 NLT
1 So look at Apollos and me as mere
servants of Christ who have been put in charge of explaining God’s mysteries.
2 Now, a person who is put in charge as a
manager must be faithful.
3 As for me, it matters very little how I
might be evaluated by you or by any human authority. I don’t even trust my own
judgment on this point.
4 My conscience is clear, but that doesn’t
prove I’m right. It is the Lord himself who will examine me and decide.
5 So don’t make judgments about anyone
ahead of time—before the Lord returns. For he will bring our darkest secrets to
light and will reveal our private motives. Then God will give to each one
whatever praise is due.
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
1 Corinthians Introduction (1:1-9) Divisions in the Church (1:10;4:21) The Fact of the Divisions (1:10-17) The Causes of the Divisions (1:18;4:13) 1. A wrong conception of the Christian message (1:18;3:4)
1 Corinthians 1 NLT
1 This letter is from Paul, chosen by the
will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and from our brother Sosthenes.
2 I am writing to God’s church in Corinth,
to you who have been called by God to be his own holy people. He made you holy
by means of Christ Jesus, just as he did for all people everywhere who call on
the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours.
3 May God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ give you grace and peace.
4 I always thank my God for you and for
the gracious gifts he has given you, now that you belong to Christ Jesus.
5 Through him, God has enriched your
church in every way—with all of your eloquent words and all of your knowledge.
6 This confirms that what I told you about
Christ is true.
7Now you have every spiritual gift you need as
you eagerly wait for the return of our Lord Jesus Christ.
8 He will keep you strong to the end so
that you will be free from all blame on the day when our Lord Jesus Christ
returns.
9 God will do this, for he is faithful to
do what he says, and he has invited you into partnership with his Son, Jesus
Christ our Lord.
10 I appeal to you, dear brothers and
sisters, by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, to live in harmony with
each other. Let there be no divisions in the church. Rather, be of one mind,
united in thought and purpose.
11 For some members of Chloe’s household
have told me about your quarrels, my dear brothers and sisters.
12 Some of you are saying, “I am a follower
of Paul.” Others are saying, “I follow Apollos,” or “I follow Peter, ” or “I
follow only Christ.”
13 Has Christ been divided into factions?
Was I, Paul, crucified for you? Were any of you baptized in the name of Paul?
Of course not!
14 I thank God that I did not baptize any
of you except Crispus and Gaius,
15 for now no one can say they were
baptized in my name.
16 (Oh yes, I also baptized the household
of Stephanas, but I don’t remember baptizing anyone else.)
17 For Christ didn’t send me to baptize,
but to preach the Good News—and not with clever speech, for fear that the cross
of Christ would lose its power.
18 The message of the cross is foolish to
those who are headed for destruction! But we who are being saved know it is the
very power of God.
19 As the Scriptures say, “I will destroy
the wisdom of the wise and discard the intelligence of the intelligent.”
20 So where does this leave the
philosophers, the scholars, and the world’s brilliant debaters? God has made
the wisdom of this world look foolish.
21 Since God in his wisdom saw to it that
the world would never know him through human wisdom, he has used our foolish
preaching to save those who believe.
22 It is foolish to the Jews, who ask for
signs from heaven. And it is foolish to the Greeks, who seek human wisdom.
23 So when we preach that Christ was
crucified, the Jews are offended and the Gentiles say it’s all nonsense.
24 But to those called by God to salvation,
both Jews and Gentiles, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.
25 This foolish plan of God is wiser than
the wisest of human plans, and God’s weakness is stronger than the greatest of
human strength.
26Remember, dear brothers and sisters, that few
of you were wise in the world’s eyes or powerful or wealthy when God called
you.
27 Instead, God chose things the world
considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise. And he chose
things that are powerless to shame those who are powerful.
28 God chose things despised by the world,
things counted as nothing at all, and used them to bring to nothing what the
world considers important.
29 As a result, no one can ever boast in
the presence of God.
30God has united you with Christ Jesus. For our
benefit God made him to be wisdom itself. Christ made us right with God; he
made us pure and holy, and he freed us from sin.
31 Therefore, as the Scriptures say, “If
you want to boast, boast only about the LORD .”
1
Corinthians 2 NLT
1 When I first came to you, dear brothers
and sisters, I didn’t use lofty words and impressive wisdom to tell you God’s
secret plan.
2 For I decided that while I was with you
I would forget everything except Jesus Christ, the one who was crucified.
3 I came to you in weakness—timid and
trembling.
4 And my message and my preaching were
very plain. Rather than using clever and persuasive speeches, I relied only on
the power of the Holy Spirit.
5 I did this so you would trust not in
human wisdom but in the power of God.
6 Yet when I am among mature believers, I
do speak with words of wisdom, but not the kind of wisdom that belongs to this
world or to the rulers of this world, who are soon forgotten.
7 No, the wisdom we speak of is the
mystery of God —his plan that was previously hidden, even though he made it for
our ultimate glory before the world began.
8 But the rulers of this world have not
understood it; if they had, they would not have crucified our glorious Lord.
9 That is what the Scriptures mean when
they say, “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God
has prepared for those who love him.”
10But it was to us that God revealed these
things by his Spirit. For his Spirit searches out everything and shows us God’s
deep secrets.
11 No one can know a person’s thoughts
except that person’s own spirit, and no one can know God’s thoughts except
God’s own Spirit.
12 And we have received God’s Spirit (not
the world’s spirit), so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given
us.
13 When we tell you these things, we do not
use words that come from human wisdom. Instead, we speak words given to us by
the Spirit, using the Spirit’s words to explain spiritual truths.
14 But people who aren’t spiritual can’t
receive these truths from God’s Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them and they
can’t understand it, for only those who are spiritual can understand what the
Spirit means.
15 Those who are spiritual can evaluate all
things, but they themselves cannot be evaluated by others.
16 For, “Who can know the LORD ’s thoughts?
Who knows enough to teach him?” But we understand these things, for we have the
mind of Christ.
1 Corinthians 3 NLT
1 Dear brothers and sisters, when I was
with you I couldn’t talk to you as I would to spiritual people. I had to talk
as though you belonged to this world or as though you were infants in Christ.
2 I had to feed you with milk, not with
solid food, because you weren’t ready for anything stronger. And you still
aren’t ready,
3 for you are still controlled by your
sinful nature. You are jealous of one another and quarrel with each other.
Doesn’t that prove you are controlled by your sinful nature? Aren’t you living
like people of the world?
4When one of you says, “I am
a follower of Paul,” and another says, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you acting
just like people of the world?
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