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

For it has been shewn to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of the house of Chloe, that there are strifes among you.

Dare any one of you, having a matter against another, prosecute his suit before the unjust, and not before the saints?

For first, when ye come together in assembly, I hear there exist divisions among you, and I partly give credit to it.

For I fear lest perhaps coming I find you not such as I wish, and that I be found by you such as ye do not wish: lest there might be strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, evil speakings, whisperings, puffings up, disturbances;

but if ye bite and devour one another, see that ye are not consumed one of another.

For where emulation and strife are, there is disorder and every evil thing.

Whence come wars and whence fightings among you? Is it not thence, from your pleasures, which war in your members?

And walk

But they like Adam have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

For from within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

in which ye once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience:

namely your having put off according to the former conversation the old man which corrupts itself according to the deceitful lusts;

For we were once ourselves also without intelligence, disobedient, wandering in error, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

no longer to live the rest of his time in the flesh to men's lusts, but to God's will.

General references

There was a division again among the Jews on account of these words;

but if ye bite and devour one another, see that ye are not consumed one of another.