1 Corinthians 3:1
ContextImmaturity 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
Context5:2 And you are proud! 3 Shouldn’t you have been deeply sorrowful instead and removed the one who did this 4 from among you?
1 Corinthians 9:27
Context9:27 Instead I subdue my body and make it my slave, so that after preaching to others I myself will not be disqualified.
1 Corinthians 12:24
Context12:24 but our presentable members do not need this. Instead, God has blended together the body, giving greater honor to the lesser member,
1 Corinthians 14:20
Context14:20 Brothers and sisters, 5 do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
1 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:10.
2 tn Grk “fleshly [people]”; the Greek term here is σαρκινός (BDAG 914 s.v. 1).
3 tn Or “are puffed up/arrogant,” the same verb occurring in 4:6, 18.
4 tn Grk “sorrowful, so that the one who did this might be removed.”
5 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:10.