1 Corinthians 3:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.

1 Corinthians 3:2 —

Old words in this verse

meat: — food of any kind.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

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Hebrews 5:11-14
Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. …
John 16:12
I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
1 Peter 2:2
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-4)

Here, I. Paul blames the Corinthians for their weakness and nonproficiency. Those who are sanctified are so only in part: there is still room for growth and increase both in grace and knowledge, 2 Pet. 3:18. Those who through divine grace are renewed to a spiritual life may yet in many things be defective. The apostle tells them he could not speak to them as unto spiritual men, but as unto carnal…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2. (He 5:12). milk--the elementary “principles of the doctrine of Christ.”