3 Bible Verses about Edification, Hindrances To
Most Relevant Verses
And I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as spiritual, but as carnal, as babes in Christ. I have fed you milk, not solid food; for you were not yet able; but you are not able even now; for you are yet carnal. For when there is envy and strife among you are you not carnal and walk as men?read more.
For when one says, I am of Paul, and another, I, of Apollos, are you not men?
As I requested you to remain at Ephesus, when going into Macedonia, that you might charge some not to preach another doctrine, nor attend to myths or interminable genealogies, which occasion disputes rather than a dispensation of God by faith, [do.]
Whence come wars and contentions among you? Come they not thence, from your pleasures that war in your members? You desire and have not; you kill, and envy, and cannot obtain; you fight and carry on war. You have not, because you do not ask; you ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, to expend on your pleasures.read more.
Adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity against God? Whoever therefore wishes to be a friend of the world, is made an enemy of God. Or do you suppose that the Scripture says in vain, The spirit which dwells in us desires to envy? But he gives more grace; wherefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
