3 Bible Verses about Edification, Hindrances To
Most Relevant Verses
However, I could not speak to you, my brethren, as to the spiritual, or as to the dispassionate, but as to novices in christianity. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, nor have you yet sufficient strength. for you are still subject to your passions. since envy, and strife, and divisions are among you, are you not actuated by the vices of the animal part?read more.
while one cries I am Paul's disciple, and another, I am Apollo's, are ye not vicious?
At my departure from Macedonia, I advised you to stay at Ephesus in order to charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine, or trouble their heads with fables and endless genealogies, which rather promote disputes than the gospel-dispensation:
you breathe slaughter and revenge for what you cannot obtain. you quarrel and go to war, but without success, because you don't petition for it: and if you did, you would not obtain it, because you wickedly request to have your passions gratified.read more.
Degenerate race, don't you know that friendship with vice is hostility against heaven. he that is a friend to the vicious world, is an enemy to God. or do you imagine that passage of scripture to be insignificant, "does the spirit that dwells in you, incite you to vice?" on the contrary, he heaps his favours upon you. wherefore 'tis said, "God defeats the proud, but is gracious to the humble."
