¹ And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly -- as to babes in Christ;

¹⁴ and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know `them', because spiritually they are discerned;

¹⁵ and he who is spiritual, doth discern indeed all things, and he himself is by no one discerned;

⁶ And wisdom we speak among the perfect, and wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age -- of those becoming useless,

¹⁴ for we have known that the law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by the sin;

¹³ for every one who is partaking of milk `is' unskilled in the word of righteousness -- for he is an infant,

¹³ till we may all come to the unity of the faith and of the recognition of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a measure of stature of the fulness of the Christ,

¹⁴ that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray,

¹ Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who `are' spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself -- lest thou also may be tempted;

²⁰ Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;

¹² I write to you, little children, because the sins have been forgiven you through his name;

³ for yet ye are fleshly, for where `there is' among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not fleshly, and in the manner of men do walk?

⁴ for when one may say, `I, indeed, am of Paul;' and another, `I -- of Apollos;' are ye not fleshly?

²³ and he having turned, said to Peter, `Get thee behind me, adversary! thou art a stumbling-block to me, for thou dost not mind the things of God, but the things of men.'