All the inward gifts are parts of grace. They are the initial things of the divine life received of grace. All these need to grow (1Cor. 3:6-7) to their full development and maturity. The Corinthian believers were not lacking in the initial gifts in life, but they were desperately short of the growth in life. Hence, however much they were initially enriched in grace, they were still infants in Christ, soulish, fleshly, and even fleshy