3 Bible Verses about Edification, Hindrances To
Most Relevant Verses
AND I, brethren, have been unable to speak to you as unto spiritual men, but as to carnal, even as to babes in Christ. And I have given you milk to drink, and not meat: for hitherto ye have not been capable of it, yea, even to the present moment ye are not capable of it. For ye are still carnal: for since there are among you envy, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as [other] men?read more.
For when one saith, I am indeed of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
As I exhorted thee to abide at Ephesus when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest enjoin certain persons to introduce no different doctrine, nor to attend to fables and endless genealogies, which give occasion to disputes rather than godly edification, which is by faith; [so do].
FROM whence come wars and conflicts among you? spring they not from hence, even from your passions, which war in your members? Ye eagerly covet, yet have not: ye murder, and are envious, yet cannot obtain [your object]; ye wage war, but have not, because ye pray not. Ye ask, and receive nothing, because ye ask vilely, in order to consume it on your sensual appetites.read more.
Ye adulterers and adultresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity against God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is set down an enemy to God. Think ye that the scripture saith without meaning, The spirit which dwelleth in you strongly urges to envy? But he giveth mightier grace. Wherefore he saith, "God sets himself against the proud, but giveth grace to the lowly."
