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• General scriptures concerningMark 4:33John 16:4John 16:121 Corinthians 3:11 Corinthians 3:21 Corinthians 8:9

The passages, in Bible order (6)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 6 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Mark 4:33

   With many such parables Jesus spoke the word to them, to the extent that they could understand.

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   “The Lord speaks to the people in many parables, offering parables suited to the condition of His listeners. Since the people were simple and unlearned, He therefore reminds them of the mustard seed, of grass and seed, so that through things familiar and ordinary to …

   “And with many such parables,....

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2. John 16:4

   But I have told you these things so that when their hour comes, you will remember that I told you about them. I did not tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

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   “He contends that mention has been made to them of these things for no other reason except that they might know that, meeting for His sake the assaults of sin, they would at all events gain glory therefrom. For I have not foretold it unto you, He says, from any wish to enfeeble your courage or to inspire in you a premature alarm by the anticipation of suffering, but rather to give you foreknowledge, in order that by this means you may derive a double benefit.

   “But these things have I told you,....

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3. John 16:12

   I still have much to tell you, but you cannot yet bear to hear it.

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   “I have yet many things to say - Concerning my passion, death, resurrection, and the consequences of it. These things we have, not in uncertain traditions, but in the Acts, the Epistles, and the Revelation. But ye cannot bear them now - Both because of your littleness of faith, and your immoderate sorrow.

   “The Gospel shows him [the Paraclete] to be of such power and majesty that the apostles could not yet receive those things that the Savior wished to teach them until the advent of the Holy Spirit, who, pouring himself into their souls, might enlighten them regarding the nature and faith of the Trinity.

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4. 1 Corinthians 3:1

   Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.

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   “And I, brethren -- he spoke before, ver. 1, of his entrance, now of his progress, among them. Could not speak to you as unto spiritual - Adult, experienced Christians. But as unto men who were still in great measure carnal, as unto babes in Christ - Still weak in grace, though eminent in gifts, chap. i, 5.

   “Those persons, then, who possess the earnest of the Spirit, and who are not enslaved by the lusts of the flesh, but are subject to the Spirit, and who in all things walk according to the light of reason, does the apostle properly term "spiritual," because the Spirit of God dwells in them. Now, spiritual men shall not be incorporeal spirits; but our substance, that is, the union of flesh and spirit, receiving the Spirit of God, makes up the spiritual man.

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5. 1 Corinthians 3:2

   I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. In fact, you are still not ready,

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   “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; for it was not possible for things recently created to have been uncreated. But inasmuch as they are not uncreated, for this very reason do they come short of the perfect.

   “I have fed you with milk,....

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6. 1 Corinthians 8:9

   Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.

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   “This he uses to frighten them. And he did not say: this knowledge of yours, but "this liberty," that is, self-will and pride, lest it become a stumbling block for the weak. What makes them more guilty is that they do not spare the weak, …

   “But take heed lest by any means,....

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