What does 1 Corinthians 4:12 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:"
Verse 1 Corinthians 4:12. _WORKING WITH OUR OWN HANDS_] They were obliged to labour in order to supply themselves with the necessaries of life while preaching the Gospel to others. This, no doubt, was...
AND LABOUR ... - This Paul often did. See the note at Acts 18:3; compare Acts 20:34; 1Th 2:9. 2 Thessalonians 3:8. BEING REVILED - That they were often reviled or reproached, their history everywhere...
CHAPTER 4 _ 1. Servants of Christ and Stewards of the Mysteries of God. (1 Corinthians 4:1)._ 2. Contrast Between Self-Glorification and Humiliation. (1 Corinthians 4:6). 3. Admonition to Beloved C...
PAUL WILL ACCEPT NO JUDGMENT BUT CHRIST'S. THE FORTUNATE LOT OF THE CORINTHIANS CONTRASTED WITH THE MISERABLE CONDITION OF THE APOSTLES. This section is concerned with the attitude of the Corinthians...
THE THREE JUDGMENTS (1 Corinthians 4:1-5)...
WORKING, &C. See Acts 18:3; Acts 20:34. 1Th 2:9. 2 Thessalonians 3:8. REVILED. Greek. _loidoreo._ See John 9:28....
Contrast between the Corinthian Teachers and St Paul 8. _Now ye are full, now ye are rich_ Here we have one of the sudden turns of feeling so remarkable in the Apostle's style. Abruptly breaking off a...
CONTRAST BETWEEN THE CORINTHIAN TEACHERS AND ST PAUL...
_A CAUTION AGAINST SINFUL PRIDE 1 CORINTHIANS 4:7-13:_ The faithless stewards were acting like they were the source of the good things they possessed. These faithless stewards were filled with destruc...
ΚΟΠΙΏΜΕΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΚΟΠΙΆΩ (G2872) трудиться, работать, заниматься тяжелым трудом, работать до изнеможения (TLNT; TDNT). ΕΡΓΑΖΌΜΕΝΟΙ _praes. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΕΡΓΆΖΟΜΑΙ (G2038) работат...
DISCOURSE: 1954 PAUL’S MEEKNESS 1 Corinthians 4:12. _Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it: being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the earth, and are the offscouring...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Pompousness (1 Corinthians 4:6-13) 6 I have applied all this to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brethren, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written,...
And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it: WORKING WITH OUR OWN HANDS - namely, "even unto this present hour" (): so continuous are my hardshi...
8 The sharp contrast between the carnal Corinthians and the faithful apostle loses none of its force if we compare him with the church of today. We need not go outside of Protestantism to find churche...
CHRISTIAN TEACHERS ONLY THE INSTRUMENTS OF GOD The folly and sin of quarrelling about different teachers who are but servants of Christ and responsible to Him....
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 4 PAUL THE SERVANT 4:1-5 V1 This is how people should think about us. We are Christ’s servants. We are *stewards (keepers) of the secrets...
AND LABOUR. — While at Ephesus, whence this letter was written, the Apostle supported himself by working with Aquila and Priscilla at tent-making. This labour was no recreation or pastime with St. Pau...
CHAPTER 7 THE MINISTRY So keenly alive is Paul to the danger and folly of party spirit in the Church, that he has still one more word of rebuke to utter. He has shown the Corinthians that to give the...
§ 13. DISCIPLES ABOVE THEIR MASTER. What the Ap. has written, from 1 Corinthians 3:3 onwards, turns on the relations between himself and Apollos; but it has a wide application to the state of feeling...
STEWARDS RESPONSIBLE TO THEIR LORD 1 Corinthians 4:1 At the most the ministers or teachers of God's Gospel are but stewards of the hidden things of God, according to Matthew 13:51. They ought not to...
Christian teachers are "ministers of Christ." That defines their responsibility. They are "stewards of the mysteries of God." That defines their work. What dignity does this double statement suggest?...
Paul's View of the Apostles' Position In contrast to the Corinthians' lofty thoughts of themselves, Paul gives his thoughts on the apostles' state. They suffered persecution and would continue to suf...
4. PRIDE THE FIRST CAUSE OF THE EVIL. 4:6-21. Here is the final and general application of the whole first part, relating to the divisions which had arisen in the Church. The apostle, after reminding...
(6)And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be...
12.When he says that _while persecuted he suffers it, _and that he _prays _for his _revilers_, he intimates that he is not merely afflicted and abased by God, by means of the cross, but is also endowe...
As for the apostle and the labourers, they were to consider them as stewards employed by the Lord. And it was to Him that Paul committed the judgment of his conduct. He cared little for the judgment m...
AND LABOUR, WORKING WITH OUR OWN HANDS,.... As the apostle did at Corinth, Acts 18:3 and elsewhere; partly to minister to his own necessities, and those of others; and partly that he might not be burd...
And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it: Ver. 12. _And labour, working, &c._] Whereas they might object, Are you hungry, thirsty, naked? It is...
_We are fools_ In the account of the world, _for Christ's sake_ Because we expose ourselves to so many dangers and sufferings for his cause: or because we preach the plain truths of the gospel, and af...
The status of the heralds of salvation:...
But while we are not to exalt a ministering servant, no more are we to despise him or his work. The apostles should certainly be recognized for what they actually were, "ministers of Christ, and stewa...
AND WE TOIL, WORKING WITH OUR OWN HANDS: BEING REVILED, WE BLESS; BEING PERSECUTED, WE ENDURE; 'toil' -'toil to exhaustion' (Ber). 'Common late verb for weariness in toil.' (Robertson p. 108) 'We ha...
7-13 We have no reason to be proud; all we have, or are, or do, that is good, is owing to the free and rich grace of God. A sinner snatched from destruction by sovereign grace alone, must be very abs...
AND LABOUR, WORKING WITH OUR HANDS; we do not only labour in the word and doctrine, but we labour with our hands, that we might not be burdensome to the church, our hands ministering to our necessitie...
and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless [Luke 6:27; 1 Peter 2:23]; _being persecuted, we endure_;...
Origen Against Celsus Book V We, however, who are followers of the word of Jesus, and have exercised ourselves in thinking, and saying, and doing what is in harmony with His words, "when reviled, ble...
1 Corinthians 4:12 And G2532 labor G2872 (G5719) working G2038 (G5740) own G2398 hands G5495 reviled G3058 (G5746) bless G2127 (G5719) persecuted G1377 (G5746) endure G430 (G5736) labour - 1 Corinthi...
THOSE WHO ARE TRUE TO THE WORD OF THE CROSS ENDURE SUFFERING FOR CHRIST. THE CORINTHIANS NEED TO RE-EXAMINE THEIR FOUNDATIONS (4:6-13). Paul now stresses that all that he has said has been with them...
1 Corinthians 4:12. AND WE TOIL, WORKING WITH OUR OWN HANDS see Acts 18:3; Acts 20:34; 1 Thessalonians 2:9; 2 Thessalonians 3:8. Indeed be had to vindicate his liberty to preach at Corinth without hir...
WE TOIL (κοπιωμεν). Common late verb for weariness in toil (Luke 5:5),WORKING WITH OUR OWN HANDS (εργαζομενο ταις ιδιαις χερσιν) instrumental case χερσιν and not simply for himself but also for Aq...
CONTENTS: Judgment of Christ's servants not committed to man. Apostolic example of patience and humility. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Apollos, Timothy. CONCLUSION: God's steward awaits no Judgmen...
1 Corinthians 4:1. _Let a man,_ yea every one of you, however biassed by parties, _so account of us,_ though servants for your sakes, _as ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God,_ as...
WE WORK HARD. See note on 1 Corinthians 9:6....
_Now ye are full … rich … as kings._ THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE COUNTERFEIT AND THE REAL CHRISTIAN I. The counterfeit-- 1. Is so replenished with Divine knowledge that he needs no teacher. 2. Is s...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 4:10 WE ARE FOOLS FOR CHRIST’S SAKE. Measured by the Corinthians’ “royal” standards (v. 1 Corinthians 4:8), Paul’s apostolic calling has involved foolishness, weakn...
CHAPTER IV. SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER S. Paul proceeds in his task of uprooting the divisions, the pride, and the boasting of the Corinthians, and especially of some of their teachers who held him in...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 1 Corinthians 4:6.—From 1 Corinthians 3:5 he has discussed what applied to all the factions and their leaders, and even more to the others than to the so-called Pauline and Apollonian...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 4:1 _Judgments, human and Divine, respecting ministers._ 1 CORINTHIANS 4:1 LET A MAN SO ACCOUNT OF US. Since it is inevitable that Christians should form some estimate of...
Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God (1 Corinthians 4:1). Ministers of Christ, the Greek word there is the under-rowers. They were the guys d...
1 Corinthians 9:6; 1 Peter 2:23; 1 Peter 3:14; 1 Peter 3:9; 1 Peter 4:12; 1 Peter 4:19; 1 Thessalonians 2:9; 1 Timothy 4:10; 2 Thessalonians 3:8;...
Labor [κ ο π ι ω μ ε ν]. Rev., toil. Unto weariness. See on Luke 5:5. Reviled [λ ο ι δ ο ρ ο υ μ ε ν ο ι]. See on Acts 23:4. We bless [ε υ λ ο γ ο υ μ ε ν]. See on blessed, John 12:13. We suffer [α...
CHRISTIAN STEWARDSHIP 1 Corinthians 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The names surrounding discipleship. Our chapter presents before us several statements which remind us of the responsibility and privile...
We bless — suffer it — intreat — We do not return revilings, persecution, defamation; nothing but blessing....