3 Bible Verses about Edification, Hindrances To
Most Relevant Verses
And I, my brethren, could not speak to you, as to spiritual persons, but as to carnal ones, even as to babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat; for ye were not hitherto able to bear it, nor yet are ye even now able. Because ye are still carnal: for while there is among you envy and strife and divisions, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk as men?read more.
For when one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos, are ye not carnal?
As I exhorted thee to stay at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge certain persons not to teach other doctrine, nor attend to fables and endless genealogies, which occasion debates, rather than pious edification in the faith:
Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence? even of your carnal appetites making war in your bodies? Ye desire, and ye have not: ye are envious, and jealous, and cannot obtain: ye fight and contend; but ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask wickedly; that ye may spend it in your pleasures.read more.
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. Do ye think the scripture speaks in vain? or does the Spirit that dwelleth in us, excite to envy? No, He giveth more grace: wherefore it is said, God resisteth the proud, but sheweth favor to the humble.
