3 Bible Verses about Edification, Hindrances To

So, for my part, brothers, I could not treat you as spiritual persons; I had to treat you just as creatures of flesh and blood, as babies in Christian living. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. Why, you are not ready for it now, for you are still worldly. For when there are still jealousy and quarrels among you, are you not worldly and living on a merely human level?read more.
For when one man says, "I am a follower of Paul," and another, "I am a follower of Apollos," are you not simply human?

As I asked you to do when I was on my way to Macedonia, stay on in Ephesus in order to warn certain people there not to teach strange views nor to devote themselves to fictions and interminable pedigrees; such things lead to controversy instead of the divine system which operates through faith.

What causes wars and fights among you? Is it not your cravings, which are at war within your bodies? You crave things, and cannot have them, and so you commit murder. You covet things, and cannot get them, and so you quarrel and fight. You do not have things because you do not ask for them. You ask and fail to get them because you ask with wrong motives, to spend them on your pleasures.read more.
You renegades! Do you not know that the friendship of the world means enmity with God? So whoever wishes to be the world's friend declares himself God's enemy. Do you suppose the Scripture means nothing when it says, "He yearns jealously over the Spirit he has put in our hearts?" But he gives all the greater blessing. As the Scripture says, "God opposes haughty persons, but he blesses humble-minded ones."