What does 1 Corinthians 3:12 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;"
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Verse 1 Corinthians 3:12. _IF ANY MEN BUILD - GOLD, SILVER_, c.] Without entering into curious criticisms relative to these different expressions, it may be quite enough for the purpose of edificatio...
NOW IF ANY MAN - If any teacher in the doctrines which he inculcates; or any private Christian in the hopes which he cherishes. The main discussion doubtless, has respect to the teachers of religion....
CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The Carnal state of the Corinthians. (1 Corinthians 3:1)._ 2. The Workmen and their Work. (1 Corinthians 3:10). 3. The Church the Temple of God. (1 Corinthians 3:16). 4. Warning aga...
RENEWED CONDEMNATION OF PARTY SPIRIT. Paul has now reached a point where he can effect an easy return to the divisions at Corinth. He has been speaking of the spiritual man who is capable of receiving...
THE SUPREME IMPORTANCE OF GOD (1 Corinthians 3:1-9)...
NOW. = But. IF. App-118. ANY MAN. any one. Greek. _tis_. App-123. UPON. App-104. HAY. Greek. _chortos._ Translated twelve times "grass", twice "blade", Matthew 13:26; Mark 4:28. Only here rendered...
Christian Ministers only labourers of more or less efficiency, the substantial work being God's 6. _I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase_ The Apostle would lead his converts to r...
CHRISTIAN MINISTERS ONLY LABOURERS OF MORE OR LESS EFFICIENCY, THE SUBSTANTIAL WORK BEING GOD’S...
_THE FOUNDATION IS CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS 3:11-15:_ Christ is the foundation, and we are to be careful that we build in a scriptural and spiritual way on Him. He is the only foundation upon which you ca...
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DISCOURSE: 1946 INSTRUCTIONS TO THOSE WHO BUILD UPON THE TRUE FOUNDATION 1 Corinthians 3:12. _Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; every man’s...
NOW IF ANY MAN BUILD, &C.— "Though no man who pretends to be a preacher of the Gospel can build upon any other foundation than that of Jesus Christ, yet you ought not to cry up your new instructor, wh...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Consists In Spiritual Work For God (1 Corinthians 3:5-17) 5 What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. 6I plan...
Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; NOW [ de (G1161)] - "But." The "gold, silver, precious stones," which all can bear fire (Revelation 3:18...
5 Apollos was a Jew of Alexandria, a scholarly man, and able in the Scriptures. He came to Ephesus, full of zeal, but versed only in the baptism of John. Priscilla and Aquila heard him speak boldly in...
THE FAULT OF PARTY SPIRIT The immaturity of the Corinthian converts and their unfitness for anything but elementary instruction in the faith is proved by their mutual jealousies and their disagreemen...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 3 GOD’S WORKERS 3:1-9 V1 *Brothers and *sisters, I could not speak to you as if the *Holy Spirit was guiding you. I had to speak to you as...
NOW IF ANY MAN... — Better, _But if any man._ PRECIOUS STONES. — Not gems, but grand and costly stones, such as marble. “Hay,” dried grass used to fill up chinks in the walls. “Stubble,” stalks with...
CHAPTER 6 GOD'S HUSBANDRY AND BUILDING PAUL having abundantly justified his method of preaching to the Corinthians, and having shown why he contented himself with the simple presentation of the Cross...
§ 10. THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE HUMAN BUILDERS. After the long digression on Wisdom (1 Corinthians 1:17 to 1 Corinthians 3:2), occasioned by the Hellenic misconception of the Gospel underlying the Cor...
BUILD ON THE SURE FOUNDATION 1 Corinthians 3:10 We are called upon to contribute our share to the building of saved souls which is rising through the ages, to be an habitation of God through the Spi...
The reason for the schisms was that these people were carnal. "Jealousy and strife" are evidences of carnality. Proceeding, Paul declared the true value of the Christian ministry. "For we are God's fe...
Testing the Building Materials McGarvey suggests the building materials Paul mentioned were very familiar to the brethren at Corinth. The first three building materials, gold, silver and precious sto...
(6) Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; (6) Thirdly he shows that they must take heed that the upper part of the building is answerable to the...
Now if any man build, &c. This is a hard place, says St. Augustine, lib. de fid. & Oper. chap. xvi. tom. 6. p. 180. The interpreters are divided, as to the explication and application of this metaphor...
In order to show what, in a religious organization like that which the gospel creates, is the place of preachers, the apostle takes two examples: Apollos and himself; and he develops what he means to...
(3) For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? (4) For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; a...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
12._Now if any man build upon this foundation _He pursues still farther the metaphor. It would not have been enough to have laid the foundation if the entire superstructure did not correspond; for as...
They were not natural men; but they were carnal (not spiritual) men, so that the apostle had to feed them with milk and not with meat which was only fit for those that were of full age. That with whic...
NOW IF ANY MAN BUILD UPON THIS FOUNDATION,.... The different materials laid by one and the same man, on this foundation, or the different doctrines advanced upon it, are some of them comparable to GO...
Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Ver. 12. _Wood, hay, stubble_] Rhetorical strains, philosophical fancies, that tend not to edification. Th...
_If any man build upon this foundation_ Thus firmly laid; _gold, silver, precious stones_ The most valuable materials in nature, the most solid, durable, and precious, and which can bear the fire. And...
GOLD, SILVER, PRECIOUS STONES; if he preach the pure truths of God, from love to him and in humble dependence on his grace, and thus build up the church. WOOD, HAY, STUBBLE; if he preach error, or th...
Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble,...
But in practical experience the Corinthians were not properly regarding, nor depending on, the wisdom of the Spirit of God, who had been given to them. Paul could not write to them as spiritual, but a...
BUT IF ANY MAN BUILDETH ON THE FOUNDATION GOLD, SILVER, COSTLY STONES, WOOD, HAY, STUBBLE; 'any man' -The work of "anyone" coming after Paul was that of building on the foundation which he had alrea...
10-15 The apostle was a wise master-builder; but the grace of God made him such. Spiritual pride is abominable; it is using the greatest favours of God, to feed our own vanity, and make idols of ours...
The apostle is discoursing metaphorically, he had compared the church of Corinth to a building, 1 CORINTHIANS 3:9, and called them there _God's building; _ they were built upon the doctrine of the gos...
But if any man buildeth on the foundation gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, stubble;...
Origen de Principiis Book II Of this fire the fuel and food are our sins, which are called by the Apostle Paul wood, and hay, and stubble."[176] Origen Against Celsus Book IV And we assert that the...
1 Corinthians 3:12 Now G1161 anyone G1536 builds G2026 (G5719) on G1909 this G5126 foundation G2310 gold G5557 silver G696 precious G5093 stones G3037 wood G3586 hay G5528 straw G2562 gold - Psalms 1...
THAT IS WHY THESE TEACHERS ARE UNITED IN THEIR WORK KNOWING THEY MUST ACCOUNT TO GOD FOR THEIR MINISTRY (3:8-15). Paul now puts all these teachers, including himself, firmly in their place. They are...
1 Corinthians 3:12. NOW IF ANY MAN BUILDETH UPON THE FOUNDATION GOLD, SILVER, PRECIOUS STONES, WOOD, HAY, STUBBLE. The highly artistic form of this statement should be noted. Two triplets of materials...
GOLD, SILVER, PRECIOUS STONES, WOOD, HAY, STUBBLE (χρυσιον, αργυριον, λιθους τιμιουσ, ξυλα, χορτον, καλαμην). The durable materials are three (gold, silver, marble or precious stones), perishable ma...
1 Corinthians 3:11 Life as a Structure. I. There is a foundation laid. The idea couched in this figure is the radical idea, which runs through the whole of Scripture, that something must be done out...
1. _And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ._ The church at Corinth consisted of persons of large education and great abilities....
CONTENTS: Hindrance of a carnal state to spiritual growth. Christian service and its reward. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Apollos, Cephas. CONCLUSION: Our salvation rests solely upon...
1 Corinthians 3:1. _Babes in Christ,_ like children at the breast, requiring to be _fed with milk, and not with meat._ Our great tutor here addresses the Corinthians in a superior style of eloquence,...
SOME WILL USE. Christ's church is not built of doctrines, but people. _MacKnight_ says the building materials represent disciples of Christ. _Gold, silver, precious stones_ symbolize sincere believers...
_According to the grace of God … as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation … But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon._ ALL OF GRACE Now when we say a godly man acknowledgeth...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 3:12 GOLD, SILVER, PRECIOUS STONES symbolize what will survive the final judgment, unlike WOOD, HAY, and STRAW. Work that Christians do in Christlike faith and obed...
CHAPTER III. SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER He endeavours to put an end to the divisions among the Corinthians, by reminding them of their mutual subjection and union in Christ and God. I. He points out t...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 1 Corinthians 3:10.—WAS GIVEN … I LAID, _q.d_. “when I was at Corinth.” “_A_ foundation,” “which I subjectively laid in my teaching at Corinth, because God had already laid the same...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 3:1 _The carnal conceit of the spiritually immature._ 1 CORINTHIANS 3:1 I… COULD NOT SPEAK UNTO YOU AS UNTO SPIRITUAL. Though softened by the word brethren, there was a cr...
Let's turn now to I Corinthians, chapter 3. Beginning with the fourteenth verse of chapter 2, Paul here separates men into three classifications. Starting in chapter 2 with the natural man, the unrege...
1 Peter 1:7; 1 Timothy 4:1; 1 Timothy 4:6; 1 Timothy 4:7; 1 Timothy 6:3; 2 Corinthians 2:17; 2 Corinthians 4:2; 2 Timothy 2:16; 2 Timothy 2:20;...
If any man build, etc. It is important to have a clear conception of Paul's figure, which must be taken in a large and free sense, and not pressed into detail. He speaks of the body of truth and doctr...
THE CARNAL AND SPIRITUAL CHRISTIAN 1 Corinthians 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In our last study, we were discussing two kinds of people. One, the unregenerate who had not the Spirit, and the other, the r...
If any one build gold, silver, costly stones — Three sorts of materials which will bear the fire; true and solid doctrines. Wood, hay, stubble — Three which will not bear the fire. Such are all doctri...
In these words the apostle speaks of two sorts of preachers, under the metaphor of builders. 1. Some that are sound and orthodox, who hold the foundation, and build upon it GOLD, SILVER, AND PRECIOUS...