KJV King James Version
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas [there is] among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
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1 Corinthians 3:3
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas [there is] among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man?
WEB World English Bible
for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?
ASV American Standard Version
for ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk after the manner of men?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
for yet ye are fleshly, for where there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not fleshly, and in the manner of men do walk?
Surrounding context — 1 Corinthians 3
1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, [even] as unto babes in Christ.
2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able [to bear it], neither yet now are ye able.
3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas [there is] among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I [am] of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
5 Who then is Paul, and who [is] Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ἔτιG2089 · etistillγὰρG1063 · garforσαρκικοίG4559 · sarkikosfleshlyἐστε.G1510 · eimito beὅπουG3699 · hopouwhere(-ever)γὰρG1063 · garforἐνG1722 · enin/on/amongὑμῖνG4771 · suyouζῆλοςG2205 · zēloszealκαὶG2532 · kaiandἔριςG2054 · erisquarrelοὐχὶG3780 · ouchinot!σαρκικοίG4559 · sarkikosfleshlyἐστεG1510 · eimito beκαὶG2532 · kaiandκατὰG2596 · kataaccording toἄνθρωπονG444 · anthrōposa humanπεριπατεῖτε;G4043 · peripateōto walk
Cross-references
James 3:16For where envying and strife [is], there [is] confusion and every evil work.Galatians 5:15But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.Titus 3:3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, [and] hating one another.2 Corinthians 12:20For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and [that] I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest [there be] debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:Ephesians 4:22-24That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;James 4:1-2From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members?1 Corinthians 11:18For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.Galatians 5:19-21Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,Romans 13:13Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.1 Corinthians 1:11For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them [which are of the house] of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.1 Peter 4:2That he no longer should live the rest of [his] time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.Ephesians 2:2-3Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:1 Corinthians 6:1-8Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?Mark 7:21-22For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,Hosea 6:7But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
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