3 Bible Verses about Edification, Hindrances To

And I, brethren, could not speak to you, as to spiritual, but as to carnal??s to babes in Christ. I fed you with milk, and not solid food; for not yet were ye able to bear it; nay, nor even now are ye able; for ye are yet carnal; for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk as men?read more.
For, when one says, "I am of Paul;" and another, "I am of Apollos;" are ye not carnal?

As I exhorted you to continue in Ephesus, when I was journeying into Macedonia, that you might charge certain ones not to teach a different doctrine, nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies; which, indeed, occasion disputes rather than God's dispensation, which is in faith, so do I now.

Whence are wars, and whence are battles among you? Are they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members? Ye desire, and have not; ye kill, and envy, 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 spend it on your pleasures.read more.
Adulteresses! know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever, therefore, purposes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do ye think that the Scripture says in vain, "The spirit that dwells in us has jealous longings?" But He giveth more grace Wherefore, the Scripture says, "God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble."