3 Bible Verses about Edification, Hindrances To

Brothers, I was not able to speak to you as to spiritual men, but as fleshly men, as babes (infants) in Christ. I fed you milk and not solid food. You were not able to receive it. You are not able now! You are still fleshly! There is envy, strife, and divisions among you. Do you not walk as ordinary men?read more.
While one said, I belong to Paul; and another, I belong to Apollos; are you not fleshly human beings?

As I urged you to stay at Ephesus, when I was going into Macedonia, that you might command certain men not to teach strange doctrines. They should not pay attention to myths and endless genealogies. These myths (false stories) (fabrications) and genealogies stimulate questions and speculation. They do not enhance the administration of God that is by faith.

What causes wars and fighting among you? Is the cause of fighting your sensual lusts for pleasure that battle within you? You lust, and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain! You fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly (with bad motives) that you may spend it on your pleasures.read more.
Adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity (hatred) (hostility) toward God? Whoever would be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you think the scripture speaks to no purpose? Does the attitude of the heart (mental disposition) that he induced to live in us cause us to envy? But he gives more grace. The scripture said, God resists the proud, but gives grace (loving-kindness) to the humble.