mature Christians. I had to talk as though you belonged to this world or as though you were infants in the Christian life. NLT Continuing to speak to the believers in the church (the brothers and sisters), Paul reproved them for their lack of maturity in the faith. Instead of growing in the faith, they had let themselves be diverted into quarrels and factions so that Paul could not even talk to them as he would to mature Christians (literally, “spiritual”). He had to talk to them in his letters as