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The word carnal is used in the following verses. It signifies a person who is controlled by their human nature instead of by God. A carnal christian is one who is not walking in the spirit - a baby, someone who calls themselves a christian but who behaves exactly the same as a non-christian.

1Co 3:1-3 MKJV And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual ones, but as to fleshly, as to babes in Christ. (v.2) I have fed you with milk and not with solid food, for you were not yet able to bear it; nor are you able even now. (v.3) For you are yet carnal. For in that there is among you envyings and strife and divisions, are you not carnal, and do you not walk according to men?

Another version may make the above verses clearer:-

1Co 3:1-4 GNB As a matter of fact, my friends, I could not talk to you as I talk to people who have the Spirit; I had to talk to you as though you belonged to this world, as children in the Christian faith. (v.2) I had to feed you milk, not solid food, because you were not ready for it. And even now you are not ready for it, (v.3) because you still live as the people of this world live. When there is jealousy among you and you quarrel with one another, doesn't this prove that you belong to this world, living by its standards? (v.4) When one of you says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos"---aren't you acting like worldly people?

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