For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
Envying - jealousy, rivalry. This refers to their feelings; "strife," to their words; "divisions," to their actions. An ascending climax: envying produced strife, and strife divisions (factious parties) х dichostasiai (G1370) is supported by 'Aleph (') Delta G f g; but A B C, Vulgate, omit it]. His language becomes severer as he proceeds: in 1 Corinthians 1:11 he had only said "contentions;" he now multiplies words (cf. the stronger term, 1 Corinthians 4:6, than in 1 Corinthians 3:21). Carnal - "strife" is a "work of the flesh" (Galatians 5:20). The "flesh" includes all feelings that aim not at the glory of God and the good of our neighbour, but at gratifying self: not merely the lower appetites.
Walk as men - as unregenerate men (cf. Matthew 16:23). "After the flesh, not after the Spirit," as becomes those regenerate by the Spirit (Romans 8:4; Galatians 5:25-26).