1 Corinthians 3:3 - Exposition

For ye are yet carnal. This is the reason for the spiritual dulness which your pride prevents you from recognizing. Envying, and strife, and divisions . The two latter words are omitted in some of the best manuscripts, and may have been added from Galatians 5:20 . Partisanship and discord, the sins of the Corinthians—sins which have disgraced so many ages of Church history—are works of the flesh ( Galatians 5:19 ), and involve many other sins ( James 3:16 ), and are therefore sure proofs of the carnal mind, though they are usually accompanied by a boast of superior spiritual enlightenment. As men; that is, "as men, not as Christians." To walk as a mere ordinary human being is not to "walk in the Spirit" ( Galatians 5:25 ); comp.," I speak as a man" ( Romans 3:5 ).