1 Corinthians 3:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

For whereas

James 4:1

And walk

General references

John 10:19

Galatians 5:15

Bible References

For whereas

Because it has come to my knowledge, through those of the house of Chloe, that there are divisions among you, my brothers.

How is it, that if any one of you has a cause at law against another, he takes it before a Gentile judge and not before the saints?

For first of all, it has come to my ears that when you come together in the church, there are divisions among you, and I take the statement to be true in part.

For I have a fear that, when I come, you may not be answering to my desire, and that I may not be answering to yours; that there may be fighting, hate, angry feeling, divisions, evil talk about others, secrets, thoughts of pride, outbursts against authority;

But if you are given to fighting with one another, take care that you are not the cause of destruction one to another.

For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing.

What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies?

And walk

But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me.

Because from inside, from the heart of men, come evil thoughts and unclean pleasures,

In which you were living in the past, after the ways of this present world, doing the pleasure of the lord of the power of the air, the spirit who is now working in those who go against the purpose of God;

That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;

For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

So that you may give the rest of your lives in the flesh, not to the desires of men, but to the purpose of God.

General references

There was a division again among the Jews because of these words.

But if you are given to fighting with one another, take care that you are not the cause of destruction one to another.