Discovery Box1 Corinthians 3:2 
Context3:2 I fed you milk, 1 not solid food, for you were not yet ready. In fact, you are still not ready,
1 Corinthians 11:19
Context11:19 For there must in fact be divisions among you, so that those of you who are approved may be evident. 2
1 Corinthians 12:18
Context12:18 But as a matter of fact, God has placed each of the members in the body just as he decided.
1 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.
2 tn Grk “those approved may be evident among you.”
