1 Corinthians 3:3

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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 concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe's household, that there are contentions among you.

Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;

But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don't consume one another.

For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

And walk

But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

General references

Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words.

But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don't consume one another.