1 Corinthians 3:2

3:2 I fed you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready. In fact, you are still not ready,

1 Corinthians 3:16

3:16 Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?


sn Milk refers figuratively to basic or elementary Christian teaching. Paul’s point was that the Corinthian believers he was writing to here were not mature enough to receive more advanced teaching. This was not a problem at the time, when they were recent converts, but the problem now is that they are still not ready.

sn You are God’s temple refers here to the church, since the pronoun you is plural in the Greek text. (In 6:19 the same imagery is used in a different context to refer to the individual believer.)