3 Bible Verses about Edification, Hindrances To
Most Relevant Verses
As for me, brothers, I could not talk to you as spiritual men, but as to creatures of flesh, mere babes in Christ. I fed you milk, not meat; for you were unable to bear it. You are not able even now, for you are still unspiritual. While there is among you jealousy and strife, are you not still unspiritual, and behaving like worldlings?read more.
When one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," are you not mere worldlings?
As I begged you when I was setting out for Macedonia, stay where you are at Ephesus, and instruct certain individuals there not to be teaching heterodoxy, nor to be paying attention to myths and interminable genealogies, which tend to promote discussions rather than a stewardship entrusted by God, a stewardship which is in faith.
Where do the conflicts and quarrels that go on among you come from? Do they not come from your passions which are always making war among your bodily members? You continually crave and do not obtain; you are killing and coveting and cannot acquire; you are fighting and at war. You do not have, because you do not ask. You continue to ask and do not receive, because you are asking with a wrong purpose, in order to spend it upon your pleasures.read more.
You adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? Whoever, then, desires to be a friend of the world, makes himself and enemy of God. Or do you suppose that it is in vain that the Scripture says, "The spirit which has its home in us yearns over us unto jealousy?" But he gives more and more grace. therefore it is said, God ever resists the proud; but to the humble he gives grace continually.
