1 Corinthians 3:2
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.
KJV
γάλα ὑμᾶς ἐπότισα οὐ βρῶμα· οὔπω γὰρ ἐδύνασθε. ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ ἔτι νῦν δύνασθε·
Greek NT
lac vobis potum dedi, non escam : nondum enim poteratis : sed nec nunc quidem potestis : adhuc enim carnales estis.
Vulgate
I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able to bear it: nay, not even now are ye able;
ASV
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.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
βρῶμα
broma
noun · 17×
γάλα
gala
noun · 5×
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
δύναμαι
dunamai
verb · 209×
νῦν
nun
adverb · 147×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
οὐδέ
oude
conjunction · 137×
οὔπω
oupo
adverb · 25×
ποτίζω
potizo
verb · 15×
ἀλλά
alla
conjunction · 636×
ἔτι
eti
adverb · 94×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
minor
SBLGNT: οὐ | WH/Treg/NIV: οὐ | RP: καὶ οὐ
- οὐ — SBLGNT
- οὐ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- καὶ οὐ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: οὐδὲ | WH/Treg/NIV: οὐδὲ | RP: οὖτε
- οὐδὲ — SBLGNT
- οὐδὲ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- οὖτε — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
8 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Why man was not made perfect from the beginning. 1. If, however, any one say, What then? Could not God have exhibited man as perfect from beginning? let him know that, inasmuch as God is indeed always the same and unbegotten as respects Himself, all things are possible to Him. But created things must be inferior to Him who created them, from the very fact of their later origin;…
1. Of the men of that time some clung to their error, others laid hold on the truth, while of these last, some having retained it for a little while again fell off from it. Alluding to these, Christ compared them to seeds not deeply sown, but having their roots upon the surface of the earth; and He said that they should quickly perish. And these the Evangelist has here pointed …
1. The blessed Paul wishes to show in the next place that this covenant is far better than the old. This then he does by first laying down remote considerations. For inasmuch as there was nothing bodily or that made a show, no temple for instance, nor Holy of Holies, nor Priest with so great apparel, no legal observances, but all things higher and more perfect, and there was no…
Chapter 41.—Of the Blessing Which Jacob Promised in Judah His Son. If, on account of the Christian people in whom the city of God sojourns in the earth, we look for the flesh of Christ in the seed of Abraham, setting aside the sons of the concubines, we have Isaac; if in the seed of Isaac, setting aside Esau, who is also Edom, we have Jacob, who also is Israel; if in the seed o…
1. Concerning Those Who Asked Him to Show Them a Sign from Heaven. And the Sadducees and Pharisees came, and tempting Him kept asking Him to show them a sign from heaven. Matthew 16:1 The Sadducees and Pharisees who disagreed with each other in regard to the most essential truths, — for the Pharisees champion the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, hoping that there will …
Cross-references
- 1Pet 2:1 — Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
- 1Pet 2:2 — As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
- Heb 5:11 — Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
- Isa 55:1 — Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
- John 16:12 — I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
- Mark 7:18 — And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
- Matt 11:14 — And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.