3 Bible Verses about Edification, Hindrances To
Most Relevant Verses
And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you, as to spiritual men, but as to those who are carnal, as to babes in Christ. I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you were not then able to bear it; indeed, not even now are you able; for you are yet carnal. For, since envy and strife and divisions are among you, are you not carnal, and do you not walk as men?read more.
For when one says, I am of Paul, and another, I of Apollos, are you not carnal?
As, on going into Macedonia, I besought you to remain in Ephesus, that you might charge some that they teach no other thing, nor give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which produce disputes rather than godly edification, which is in faith;
Whence come wars and strifes among you? Come they not hence, even of your passions, which war in your members? You desire, and you have not; you kill, and are earnestly desirous of having, and yet you can not obtain; you fight and war, and yet you have not, because you ask not. You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your passions.read more.
Adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the friend ship of the world is enmity to God? Whoever, therefore, will be a friend of the world, is an enemy of God. Do you suppose that the scripture speaks to no purpose? Does the Spirit that dwells in us incline to envy? No. But he gives more grace. "Wherefore he says: God sets himself against the proud, but gives grace to the lowly.
