1 Corinthians 3:2
Good News Translation
I had to feed you milk, not solid food, because you were not ready for it. And even now you are not ready for it,

New Revised Standard Version
I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for solid food. Even now you are still not ready,

Contemporary English Version
So I had to treat you like babies and feed you milk. You could not take solid food, and you still cannot,

New American Bible
I fed you milk, not solid food, because you were unable to take it. Indeed, you are still not able, even now,

Douay-Rheims Bible
I gave you milk to drink, not meat: for you were not able as yet. But neither indeed are you now able: for you are yet carnal.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I gave you milk to drink, not meat: for you were not able as yet. But neither indeed are you now able: for you are yet carnal.

fed.

Hebrews 5:12-14 For whereas for the time you ought to be masters, you have need to be taught again what are the first elements of the words of God: and you are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat. . . .

1 Peter 2:2 As newborn babes, desire the rational milk without guile, that thereby you may grow unto salvation:

for.

John 16:12 I have yet many things to say to you: but you cannot bear them now.

Hebrews 5:11,12 Of whom we have much to say and hard to be intelligibly uttered: because you are become weak to hear. . . .

Context
God's Fellow Workers
1And I, brethren, could not speak to you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal. As unto little ones in Christ. 2I gave you milk to drink, not meat: for you were not able as yet. But neither indeed are you now able: for you are yet carnal. 3For, whereas there is among you envying and contention, are you not carnal and walk you not according to man?…
Cross References
John 16:12
I have yet many things to say to you: but you cannot bear them now.

Hebrews 5:12
For whereas for the time you ought to be masters, you have need to be taught again what are the first elements of the words of God: and you are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat.

1 Peter 2:2
As newborn babes, desire the rational milk without guile, that thereby you may grow unto salvation:

1 Corinthians 3:1
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