1 Corinthians 3:3 Cross References - NSB

³ You are still fleshly! There is envy, strife, and divisions among you. Do you not walk as ordinary men?

⁷ »Like Adam, they have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me there.

²¹ »It is from the heart that evil thoughts come such as: fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, ²² coveting, wickedness, deceit, loose conduct, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.

¹¹ The house of Chloe told me, my brothers, that there are disputes among you.

¹³ Let us walk honestly as in the daytime, not in rioting and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and loose conduct, not in strife and jealousy.

¹ If you have a dispute with another [Christian] do you dare to go to a law court before judges who are ungodly? Why not let the holy ones decide who is right? ² Do you not know that the holy ones will judge the world? And if you will judge the world, are you unworthy to judge these small matters? ³ Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the matters that pertain to this life? ⁴ If you have judgments of things pertaining to this life, would you appoint as judges those who mean nothing to the congregation? ⁵ I speak to shame you. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? Not one who would be able to judge between his brothers? ⁶ But brother goes to court against brother, and this before unbelievers. ⁷ It is already a defeat for you that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not let yourself be wronged? Why not let your selves be defrauded (cheated)? ⁸ Instead you do wrong and defraud, and you do this to your brothers and sisters!

¹⁸ For first of all, when you come together in the congregation, I hear that there are divisions among you and I partly believe it.

¹⁵ But if you continue to bite and devour one another, take care that you do not consume one another.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh (sinful human nature) are apparent. They are: fornication, uncleanness, loose conduct, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, wrath, contentions, divisions, sects, ²¹ envies, drunkenness, revelries, and things like these. I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that those who practice such things would not inherit the kingdom of God.

² You once walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the power (authority and jurisdiction) of the air, the spirit that is now active in the sons of disobedience. ³ We all once lived in the lust of our flesh, indulging the desires (lusts) of the flesh and of the mind. We were by nature children of anger and violent passion, like everyone else.

²² You put away your former way (course) (behavior) (conversation) of life, the old self that was corrupt with the lusts of deceit. ²³ You are renewed in the spirit (vital principles) (attitude) of your mind (understanding). ²⁴ Put on the new man, that in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.

²⁰ I am afraid that I may come and find you different from what I want you to be, and that you may find me different from what you want me to be. I fear that there may be rivalry, jealousy, hot tempers, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorderly conduct.

³ For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

¹⁶ For where jealousy and selfishness are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

¹ What causes wars and fighting among you? Is the cause of fighting your sensual lusts for pleasure that battle within you? ² You lust, and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain! You fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask.

² From now on you must live the rest of your earthly lives controlled by God’s will and not by human desires (lusts).