1 Corinthians 3:1

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

Don’t count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”

But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of men.”

All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don’t say that he should make a request concerning this.

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,

Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight.

But there was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.

Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?

“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”

God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist,

so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

“ ‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up.

“I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.” ’

Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye?

and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.

Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”

Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins,

It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.

Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

David said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should be adversaries to me today? Shall any man be put to death today in Israel? For don’t I know that I am king over Israel today?”

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

Let my tongue sing of your word, for all your commandments are righteousness.

Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a stumbling stone and a rock that makes them fall. For the people of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a snare.

For Yahweh says, “You were sold for nothing; and you will be redeemed without money.”

But he turned, and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”

Jesus answered him, “Get behind me Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”

a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.

not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.