“And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.”
Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are still worldly — mere infants in Christ — Paul shifts to direct address and gentle rebuke. The Corinthians are 'infants' (nēpioi) despite their spiritual gifts. 'Worldly' (sarkikoi, 'fleshly') does not mean the flesh as body but flesh as the fallen nature focused on self-interest. One can possess the Spirit and still operate in fleshly competition over status and teachers—the Corinthian predicament.
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