3 Bible Verses about Edification, Hindrances To

And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as spiritual, but as carnal, as babes in Christ. I have given you milk to drink, and not food; for ye were not able, but neither now are ye yet able. For yet are ye carnal: for wherefore envy in you, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk according to man?read more.
For when a certain one should say, I truly am of Paul; and another, I of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

As I besought thee to remain in Ephesus, going into Macedonia, that thou mightest proclaim to some not to teach another doctrine, Neither hold to fictions and endless genealogies, which offer questions, rather than the arrangement of God in the faith:

Whence wars and fights among you? are they not hence, out of your sensual pleasures making war in your members Ye eagerly desire, and have not: ye kill, and are zealous, and cannot succeed: ye fight and wage war, and ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask wickedly that ye might expend upon your sensual pleasures.read more.
Adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is the enmity of God? whoever therefore would wish to be the friend of the world is set the enemy of God. Or think ye that the writing says vainly, That the spirit longs for envy, which dwelt in us? And he gives greater grace. Wherefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.