1 Corinthians 13:7

13:7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 Corinthians 13:13

13:13 And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13:2

13:2 And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 3:2

3:2 I fed you milk, ¹  not solid food, for you were not yet ready. In fact, you are still not ready,

1 Corinthians 3:1

Immaturity and Self-deception

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

1 Corinthians 3:11

3:11 For no one can lay any foundation other than what is being laid, which is Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 4:12

4:12 We do hard work, toiling with our own hands. When we are verbally abused, we respond with a blessing, when persecuted, we endure,

1 Corinthians 4:1

The Apostles’ Ministry

4:1 One ⁴  should think about us this way – as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

1 Corinthians 5:12

5:12 For what do I have to do with judging those outside? Are you not to judge those inside?

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

³ tn Grk “fleshly [people]”; the Greek term here is σαρκινός (BDAG 914 s.v. 1).

⁴ tn Here ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") is both indefinite and general, “one”; “a person” (BDAG 81 s.v. 4.a.γ).