3 Bible Verses about Edification, Hindrances To
Most Relevant Verses
I also, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual men, but as those who are not spiritual, as to babes in Christ. I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able to bear it. Nor indeed are ye able even now; for ye are yet unspiritual. For while there is among you rivalry and strife, are ye not unspiritual, and walking after the manner of men?read more.
For while one saith, I am of Paul, and another, I am of Apollos, are ye not [like common] men?
As I besought thee, when I set out for Macedonia, to remain still in Ephesus, that thou mightst charge certain persons not to teach other doctrine, nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which occasion disputes rather than promote Gods dispensation which is in faith, [so I do now.]
Whence are wars and whence are fightings among you? Are they not hence, from your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not; ye kill, and earnestly covet, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war. Ye have not, because ye ask not; ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.read more.
Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore chooseth to be a friend of the world, becometh an enemy of God. Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, "Zealously doth the Spirit, which made its abode in us, long for us"? but he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, "God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble."
