1 Corinthians 3:23
What meaning of the 1 corinthians 3:23 in the Bible?
What does 1 Corinthians 3:23 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's."
What does 1 Corinthians 3:23 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's."
Verse 1 Corinthians 3:23. _AND YE ARE CHRIST'S_] You are called by his name; you have embraced his doctrine; you depend on him for your salvation; he is your foundation stone; he has gathered you out...
AND YE ARE CHRIST’S - You belong to him; and should not, therefore, feel that you are devoted to any earthly leader, whether Paul, Apollos, or Peter. As you belong to Christ by redemption, and by sole...
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...
IT IS A FALSE WISDOM THAT PITS ONE LEADER AGAINST ANOTHER: ALL ARE YOURS. Paul warns against the self-deception which causes a man to overrate his own judgment. Better renounce his worldly wisdom, whi...
THE SUPREME IMPORTANCE OF GOD (1 Corinthians 3:1-9)...
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 TEMPLE IS THE CHURCH 1 CORINTHIANS 3:16-23:_ As members of the church we should be spiritual people because the church of Christ is the Holy Temple of God. His Spirit dwells in this temple. God w...
DISCOURSE: 1949 THE CHRISTIAN’S PRIVILEGES 1 Corinthians 3:21. _Let no man glory in men. For all things are your’s; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things pre...
ALL THINGS ARE YOURS, &C.— How magnificently are the happy privileges of Christians, through Christ, set forth in this noble exultation! First, here is a full and vehement enumeration of particulars;...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Concludes With Spiritual Compensation (1 Corinthians 3:18-23) 18 Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fo...
And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's. YE ARE CHRIST'S - not Paul's or Apollos', etc. (Matthew 23:8; ). Not merely a section, but ye all are Christ's (). CHRIST IS GOD'S (). God is the ultima...
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...
AND CHRIST IS GOD’S. — Probably these words were added, not only as being the great climax of the gradual ascent up which the Apostle’s thoughts and language have gone in the whole passage, but as avo...
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...
§ 11. THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD. Affectation of philosophy, “the wisdom of the world,” which P. has repudiated on behalf of the Gospel (1 Corinthians 1:2) was at the bottom of the Cor [606] troubles. T...
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...
True Wisdom True wisdom, according to the apostle Paul, comes in learning to be a fool in the eyes of this world's wise (Acts 2:24). Pride in one's own intellectual abilities can keep him from learni...
_All things are yours. Are ordained for your good. For this end, I, Apollo, and Cephas have been sent to promote your salvation. The world and all things in it are allowed you, are yours, that by maki...
“Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come, all are yours; 23. and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.” In the front are placed the n...
(16) Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? (17) If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple...
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...
23._Christ is God’s _This subjection relates to Christ’s humanity, for by taking upon him our flesh, he assumed “the form” and condition “of a servant,” that he might make himself obedient to his Fath...
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...
AND YE ARE CHRIST'S,.... This is the ground and foundation of all things being theirs, and shows in what way they come by them, and what gives them their claim and property: they are Christ's, he has...
And ye are Christ's; and Christ _is_ God's. Ver. 23. _And ye are Christ's_] We hold all we have _in capite_ tenure in Christ. From Christ therefore let us take our denomination. The name of Jesuits s...
_Therefore_ Upon the whole, considering all that has been advanced, and especially considering in what view the great God regards these things which we are so ready to value ourselves upon; _let no ma...
YE ARE CHRIST'S; all united in one body under Christ, who has redeemed you by his blood, and to whom alone ye belong, not to any human leader. CHRIST IS GOD'S; sent by the Father to redeem men, and a...
The conclusion:...
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...
AND YE ARE CHRIST'S; AND CHRIST IS GOD'S. 'ye are Christ's' -'Here is the true slogan which abolishes all others...'You' means all of the Corinthians as one body. This wipes out the "I" in the old s...
18-23 To have a high opinion of our own wisdom, is but to flatter ourselves; and self-flattery is the next step to self-deceit. The wisdom that wordly men esteem, is foolishness with God. How justly...
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and ye are Christ's [and hence not the property of his servants]; _and Christ is God's_. [These words are an echo of the prayer of the Master at John 17:21-23. The church must have perfect unity in Ch...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V " comes also Christ.[319]...
1 Corinthians 3:23 And G1161 you G5210 Christs G5547 and G1161 Christ G5547 Gods G2316 you - 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, 1 Corinthians 7:22, 1 Corinthians 15:23; John 17:9-10; Romans 14:8;...
THE CHURCH IS GOD'S SACRED SANCTUARY FOR THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELLS IN THEM AND THEY ARE HID WITH CHRIST IN GOD. LET DIVISIVE TEACHERS THEREFORE BEWARE (3:16-23). Paul now applies his building analogy t...
1 Corinthians 3:23. AND YE ARE CHRIST'S (possession), AND CHRIST IS GOD'S (possession). What a climax, and an anti-climax too, from all things _down_ to ourselves, and from ourselves _up_ again to God...
1 Corinthians 3:21 Consider: I. How Christ's servants are men's lords. "All things are yours: Paul, Apollos, Cephas." These three teachers were all lights kindled at the central light, and therefore...
1. _And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ._ Their spiritual part had not grown strong, their old carnal nature still had the pr...
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,...
AND YOU BELONG TO CHRIST. This is the climax! In Christ they have union with God!!! How foolish, then, the jealousy and quarrels of rival parties. This also is a statement of irony. "Lords of Creation...
_Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?_ THE TWO TEMPLES Two points comprehend the apostle’s teaching in this chapter. 1. The foundation of Christian...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 3:21 LET NO ONE BOAST IN MEN. Arrogance causes division in Corinth (1 Corinthians 4:6, 1 Corinthians 4:18). The Corinthians need to learn that they belong to God, n...
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 3:21.—See Homiletic Analysis. Note the unexpected turn of phrase; not “Christ is yours.” “Rise to the plane of His life and your relations to Him, then you are a posses...
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 Corinthians 11:3; 1 Corinthians 15:23; 1 Corinthians 6:19; 1 Corinthians 6:20; 1 Corinthians 7:22; 1 Corinthians 8:6; 2 Corinthians 10:7; Ephesians 1:10;...
Ye are Christ 's. A summary of the title following the inventory. Compare Romans 8:17....
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...
And ye are Christ's — His property, his subjects. his members. And Christ is God's — As Mediator, he refers all his services to his Father's glory....