1 Corinthians 1:8

Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. WHO - God (), not Jesus Christ (), in which case it would be, 'in His day.' UNTO THE END - namely, 'the coming of Christ.' BLAMELESS IN THE DAY OF ... CHRIST (). After that day there is no danger (.) Now is our day to work, and the day of our enemies to try us; then will be the day of Christ, and of His glory in the saints....

8._Who will also confirm you. _The relative here refers not to Christ, but to God, though the word _God _is the remoter antecedent. For the Apostle is going on with his congratulation, and as he has told them previously what he thought of them, so he now lets them know what hope he has of them as to the future, and this partly for the purpose of assuring them still farther of his affection for them, and partly that he may exhort them by his own example to cherish the same hope. It is as if he had said — Though the expectation of a salvation to come keeps you still in suspense, you ought nevertheless to feel assured that the Lord will never forsake you, but will on the contrary increase what he has begun in you, that when that day comes on which “we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ,” (2 Corinthians 5:10

1-9 All Christians are by baptism dedicated and devoted to Christ, and are under strict obligations to be holy. But in the true church of God are all who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, and who call upon him as God manifest in the flesh, for all the blessings of salvation; who acknowledge and obey him as their Lord, and as Lord of all; it includes no other persons. Christians are distinguished from the profane and atheists, that they dare not live without prayer; and they are distinguished from Jews and pagans, that they call on the name of Christ. Observe how often in these verses the apostle repeats the words, Our Lord Jesus Christ. He feared not to make too frequent or too honourable mention of him. To all who called upon Christ, the apostle gave his usual salutation, desiring, in their behalf, the pardoning mercy, sanctifying grace, and comforting peace of God,...

Verse 1 Corinthians 1:8. _WHO SHALL - CONFIRM YOU_] As the testimony of Christ was _confirmed_ among you, so, in conscientiously believing and obeying, God will _confirm_ you through that testimony. See 1 Corinthians 1:6. _IN THE DAY OF OUR LORD JESUS_] In the day that he comes to judge the world, according to some; but, in the day in which he comes to destroy the Jewish polity, according to others. While God destroys them who are disobedient, he can save you who believe....

WHO SHALL ALSO CONFIRM YOU - Who shall establish you in the hopes of the gospel. He shall make you “firm” (βεβαιώσει bebaiōsei) amidst all your trials, and all the efforts which may be made to shake your faith, and to remove you from that firm foundation on which you now rest. UNTO THE END - That is, to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. He would keep them to the end of life in the path of holiness, so that at the coming of the Lord Jesus they might be found blameless; compare John 13:1. The sense is, that they should be kept, and should not be suffered to fall away and perish - and this is one of the many places which express the strong confidence of Paul that those who are true Christians shall be preserved unto everlasting life; compare...

EXPOSITION The oldest superscription was probably, "To the Corinthians, the first (Πρὸς Κορινθίους πρώτη)." This is found in א, A, B, C, D. 1 CORINTHIANS 1:1 _The_ _greeting. _An opening salutation is found in all the Epistles of St. Paul, and in every Epistle of the New Testament except the Epistle to the Hebrews and the first Epistle of St. John, both of which were more in the nature of treatises than letters. 1 CORINTHIANS 1:1 Paul. After the beginning of the first missionary journey (A.D. 45) he seems to have finally abandoned his Hebrew name of Saul. Called. The word "called" is absent from A, D, E, and other manuscripts, but may have been omitted as superfluous. It occurs in the greeting of...

WHO SHALL ALSO CONFIRM YOU UNTO THE END,.... The author of this blessing of confirmation is not the Lord Jesus Christ, though he is mentioned in the latter part of 1 Corinthians 1:7; and seems to be the antecedent to the relative "who" in this, but is not, for this confirmation is made in him; see 2 Corinthians 1:21; and besides, it is in order that the saints might be blameless in the day of Christ, and so must design some other person distinct from him, which is God the Father, 1 Corinthians 1:4, to whom the apostle gives thanks, and continues to do so unto this verse; in which he assures the saints of confirmation in grace by God, the author and giver of all grace: and which may be understood

1. _Paul, called to be an, apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,_ Paul could never have sustained the great weight of responsibility and tribulation which fell upon him if he had not felt that he was «called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God.» No man will ever be fit for the ministry of the Word unless he is called to it by God. This also will be your strength in every other station of life; if God has called you to your peculiar work and warfare, he will not send you at your own charges, but he will be at the back of you, and support you even to the end. I think it is for this reason that Paul so constantly dwells upon his own calling when he is about to write to the churches, that he may remind other believers that they have similar privileges in their spheres of labour. 1 Corinthians 1:2.

DAY OF OUR LORD JESUS The expression, "day of Christ," occurs in the following passages: (1 Corinthians 1:8); (1 Corinthians 5:5); (2 Corinthians 1:14); (Philippians 1:6); (Philippians 1:10); (Philippians 2:16). A.V. Has "day of Christ," (2 Thessalonians 2:2) incorrectly, for "day of the Lord"; ...

1 CORINTHIANS 1:8 @Cristou/# {C} The absence of Cristou/ from both î46 and B is noteworthy. The presence of VIhsou/ Cristou/ in the preceding and following verses might be thought reason enough for Paul not to use the word here — and for ordinary scribes to insert it! On the other hand, however, the word may have been omitted either accidentally in copying (Cristou/ was ordinarily written in contracted form, ,=u=) or perhaps deliberately for aesthetic reasons (in order to differentiate the sequence of three instances of VIhsou/ Cristou/). In view of the strong and varied support for Cristou/ ...