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

1 Peter 4:2

General references

John 10:19

Galatians 5:15

Bible References

For whereas

For I have been informed, my brothers, by Chloe's people, that quarrels are going on among you.

When one of you has a disagreement with his neighbor, does he dare to bring the matter before a heathen court, instead of laying it before his Christian brothers?

For, in the first place, when you meet as a congregation, I hear that you divide into sets, and in a measure I believe it.

for I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I want to find you, and that you may find me not as you want to find me. I am afraid that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, bad feeling, rivalry, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder,

But if you bite one another and eat one another, take care, or you will be destroyed by one another.

For wherever jealousy and rivalry exist, there will be confusion and every low action.

What causes wars and fights among you? Is it not your cravings, which are at war within your bodies?

And walk

For it is from inside, from men's hearts, that designs of evil come; immorality, stealing, murder, adultery,

in the midst of which you once lived under the control of the present age of the world, and the master-spirit of the air, who is still at work among the disobedient.

You must lay aside with your former habits your old self which is going to ruin through its deceptive passions.

For we ourselves were once without understanding, disobedient, deluded, enslaved to all kinds of passions and pleasures. Our minds were full of malice and envy. Men hated us and we hated one another.

and no longer lives by what men desire, but for the rest of his earthly life by what God wills.

General references

These words caused a fresh division of opinion among the Jews.

But if you bite one another and eat one another, take care, or you will be destroyed by one another.