1 Corinthians 3:3

Divisiveness And Immaturity

² I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready, ³ for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men? ⁴ For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," aren't you fleshly?

Divisions Among You

Of the Flesh

Of the World

To the Lord

Walk in the Ways of

By Human Standards

1 Corinthians 1:11

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.

1 Corinthians 11:18

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

James 3:16

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

Hosea 6:7

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

Mark 7:21-22

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

Romans 13:13

Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

1 Corinthians 6:1-8

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

2 Corinthians 12:20

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;

Galatians 5:15

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

Galatians 5:19-21

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

Ephesians 2:2-3

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;

Ephesians 4:22-24

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

Titus 3:3

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

James 4:1-2

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

1 Peter 4:2

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.