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 reported to me about you, my brothers, by members of Chloe’s household, that there is rivalry among you.

If any of you has a legal dispute against another, do you dare go to court before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

For to begin with, I hear that when you come together as a church there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.

For I fear that perhaps when I come I will not find you to be what I want, and I may not be found by you to be what you want; there may be quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.

But if you bite and devour one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.

For where envy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every kind of evil.

What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from the cravings that are at war within you?

And walk

But they, like Adam, have violated the covenant;
there they have betrayed Me.

For from within, out of people’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders,

in which you previously walked according to the ways of this world, according to the ruler who exercises authority over the lower heavens,

the spirit now working in the disobedient.

You took off

your former way of life, the old self

that is corrupted by deceitful desires;

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.

in order to live the remaining time in the flesh, no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.

General references

Again a division took place among the Jews because of these words.

But if you bite and devour one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.