However, we speak wisdom among those that are perfect, but not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are being destroyed.

But he that is spiritual discerns all things, yet he himself is discerned by no man.

Brothers, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a person in a spirit of gentleness, looking out for yourself lest you also be tempted.

for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal, and walking according to human principles?

For when one says, "I am of Paul," and another, "I [am] of Apollos," are you not carnal?

But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

But He turned and said to Peter, "Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block unto Me, because you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men."

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, having been sold under sin.

Brothers, do not be children in your understanding; rather, in malice be children, but in understanding be men.

until we all arrive to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to [the] measure of [the] stature of the fullness of Christ;

that we may no longer be infants, being tossed as by waves, and being carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in regard to deceitful scheming,

I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven you on account of His name.