Help finding a passage!!! Quick!!

[jenniferstell]

I've been looking and I can't seem to find it. I don't have a concordance, either. I need help real quick before I leave for the day and go on vacation.

Somewhere, there is a passage that says something like this: Do not treat unbelievers as believers. What do you expect? They don't know any better that to be worldly.

Anybody know??

 

[Nazaroo]

Possibly, "Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers"

(2 Cor 6:14)

and/or "the natural man understands NOT spiritual things"
(1 Cor 2:14)

 

[HumbleBee]

1 Corinthians 3:1-3 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?

 

[Dmckay]

1 Corinthians 3:1-3 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?

The OP was asking for passages which talked about not treating unbelievers like believers. Paul's injunction in 1 Corinthians 3:1-3 is directed to immature believers who were still acting like babies in Christ. They weren't yet ready for the more indepth teaching that they needed, because they were content to remain babes in Christ.

 

[johnd]

I've been looking and I can't seem to find it. I don't have a concordance, either. I need help real quick before I leave for the day and go on vacation.

Somewhere, there is a passage that says something like this: Do not treat unbelievers as believers. What do you expect? They don't know any better than to be worldly.

Anybody know??

The Bible does not make this excuse for unbelief actually.

Romans 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

 

[HumbleBee]

1 Peter 4:4 They think it strange that you do not plunge with them into the same flood of dissipation, and they heap abuse on you.

 

[jenniferstell]

I'm back, but I know I read that somewhere in my studies. Perhaps I'm crazy and read it somewhere else. Crazy wouldn't be so far off....lol. Thanks anyway, guys!