1 Corinthians 3:1

Immaturity and Self-deception

3:1 So, brothers and sisters,¹ I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh,² as infants in Christ.

1 Corinthians 5:2

5:2 And you are proud!³ Shouldn’t you have been deeply sorrowful instead and removed the one who did this⁴ from among you?

9:27 Instead I subdue my body and make it my slave, so that after preaching to others I myself will not be disqualified.

12:24 but our presentable members do not need this. Instead, God has blended together the body, giving greater honor to the lesser member,

14:20 Brothers and sisters,⁵ do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

¹tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:10.

²tn Grk “fleshly [people]”; the Greek term here is σαρκινός (BDAG 914 s.v. 1).

³tn Or “are puffed up/arrogant,” the same verb occurring in 4:6, 18.

⁴tn Grk “sorrowful, so that the one who did this might be removed.”

⁵tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:10.