Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
Seemeth - i:e., is, and is regarded by himself and others.
Wise in this world - wise in mere worldly wisdom ().
Let him become a fool - by receiving the Gospel in its unworldly simplicity, and so abjuring worldly wisdom, that law may seek the true wisdom from God, the obedience of faith ().
Verse 18. _IF ANY MAN AMONG YOU SEEMETH TO BE WISE_] Ει τις δοκει σοφος ειναι· _If any pretend or affect to be wise_. This seems to refer to some _individual_ in the Church of Corinth, who had been v...
LET NO MAN DECEIVE HIMSELF - The apostle here proceeds to make a practical application of the truths which he had stated, and to urge on them humility, and to endeavor to repress the broils and conten...
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
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)...
Do you not know that you are God's temple, and that the Spirit of God has his dwelling place in you? If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for the temple of God is holy and you a...
NO MAN. no one. Greek. _medeis._ DECEIVE. Greek. _exapatao._ See Romans 7:11. WORLD. App-129. FOOL. Greek. _moros,_ as in 1 Corinthians 1:25; 1 Corinthians 1:27
_let him become a fool, that he may be wise_ Let him account himself a fool, put himself on a level with the ignorant and unintellectual, set no store by his worldly knowledge or intellectual powers,...
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...
ΑἸΩ͂ΝΙ. See note on 1 Corinthians 1:20. ΜΩΡῸΣ ΓΕΝΈΣΘΩ. Let him account himself a fool, put himself on a level with the ignorant and unintellectual, set no store by his worldly knowledge or intellectu...
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...
ΈΞΑΠΑΤΆΤΩ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΈΞΑΠΑΤΆΩ (G1818) обманывать. Предложное сочетание перфектно: "обманывать и достигать в этом успеха" (МН, 311). О _praes. imper._ в отр. _см._ Romans 6:12. ΕΊ (G1487)...
DISCOURSE: 1948 THE MEANS OF ATTAINING TRUE WISDOM 1 Corinthians 3:18. _Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise_....
LET NO MAN DECEIVE HIMSELF.— It was not necessary for St. Paul, writing to the Corinthians, who knew the matter of fact, to particularize what it was wherein the craftiness of the person here mentione...
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 foo...
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...
3:18 deceive (e-4) A strong word. See Note at 1 Timothy 2:14 . be (f-12) Or 'has the appearance of being.'...
PARAPHRASE. 'Do not deceive yourselves; but if there be any of you priding himself on his worldly wisdom let him quickly unlearn it, that he may learn the true wisdom. (19, 20) For as Holy Scripture t...
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...
Passing from the difference between the work of one teacher and that of another, which has occupied him since 1 Corinthians 3:5, the Apostle now returns to the subject from which he branched off there...
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...
Accordingly, the Μηδεὶς ἑαυτὸν ἐξαπατάτω looks forward, not backward: one may “deceive himself” about the mixing of man's wisdom with God's, but scarcely about the truth of the threatening of 1 Corint...
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 Spir...
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 learnin...
(10) Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. (10) He concludes by the opposite, that they profess pure wisdom in...
Let no man deceive himself. He next precautions them against themselves, and admonishes them to be upon their guard against curiosity, presumption, and self-love, and tells them to undervalue all othe...
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...
“Let no man deceive himself; if any man thinketh that he is wise among you, let him become a fool in this world, that he may become wise.” Again an asyndeton, testifying to the emotion which fills th...
(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...
18._Let no man deceive himself _Here he puts his finger upon the true sore, as the whole mischief originated in this — that they were wise in their own conceit. Hence he exhorts them not to deceive th...
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...
LET NO MAN DECEIVE HIMSELF,.... With vain notions of serving God and religion, and of doing the churches good by his carnal and worldly wisdom, and with false hopes of escaping the vengeance of God fo...
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. Ver. 18. _Let no man deceive himself_] _Bis desipit, qui sibi sapit. Con...
_Let no man deceive himself_ Neither teacher, by propagating errors through pride of his own understanding; nor hearers, by a factious preferring of one above another for his gifts. _If any man among...
DECEIVE HIMSELF; by a vain idea of his superior wisdom. Addressed especially to those who sought preeminence as leaders. SEEMETH TO BE WISE; seemeth in his own eyes, thinks himself wise. BECOME A FOO...
Every Christian a temple of God:...
LET NO MAN DECEIVE HIMSELF. IF ANY MAN AMONG YOU SEEMETH TO BE WISE IN THIS WORLD, LET HIM BECOME A FOOL THAT HE MAY BE WISE....
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...
LET NO MAN DECEIVE HIMSELF. IF ANY MAN THINKETH THAT HE IS WISE AMONG YOU IN THIS WORLD, LET HIM BECOME. FOOL, THAT HE MAY BECOME WISE. 'Let no man deceive himself' -'A warning that implied that som...
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...
LET NOT MAN DECEIVE HIMSELF: there are some that, with their eloquence and flourishes of words, or with their philosophical notions and reasonings, _\which, COLOSSIANS 2:8, the apostle calls vain dece...
Let no man deceive himself. [By thinking himself wise enough to amend or modify God's truth.] _If any man thinketh that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wi...
Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics produced for itching ears of the spirit of this world's wisdom: this the Lord called "foolishness,"[63] Tertullian Against Marcion Book V If you threate...
1 Corinthians 3:18 Let G1818 one G3367 deceive G1818 (G5720) himself G1438 anyone G1536 among G1722 you G521
‘Let no man deceive himself. If any man thinks that he is wise among you in this world (or ‘age'), let him become a fool that he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.'...
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 3:18. LET NO MAN DECEIVE HIMSELF. IF ANY MAN AMONG YOU THINKETH THAT HE IS WISE IN THIS WORLD in the world's sense of wisdom, LET HIM BECOME A FOOL (as to such wisdom), THAT HE MAY BE (t...
LET NO MAN DECEIVE HIMSELF (Μηδεις εαυτον εξαπατω). A warning that implied that some of them were guilty of doing it (μη and the present imperative). Excited partisans can easily excite themselves...
1 Corinthians 3:18 The Self-wise Inquirer. Let us inquire what is the vain wisdom of the world, and then we shall the better see how it leads men astray. I. Now, when it is said that to trust our ow...
17-18. _If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this worl...
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 t...
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,...
NO ONE SHOULD FOOL HIMSELF. The false teacher at Corinth thought himself to be _wise_ because he was able to get people to come to Christ through not telling them all the teachings of Christ, and misr...
_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...
_Let no man deceive himself._ If any man … seemeth to he wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may he wise. HOW TO AVOID SELF-DECEPTION I. The danger. 1. Is common. 2. Arises out of...
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 3:16.—A TEMPLE (R.V.) misses, or denies, the typology binding Old Testament and New Testament together here. A case where, as often (_e.g_. 1 Corinthians 11:20), one of...
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 1:18; 1 Corinthians 15:33; 1 Corinthians 4:10; 1 Corinthians 6:9;...
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...
Let him become a fool in this world — Such as the world accounts so. That he may become wise — In God's account....
Observe here, 1. word of caution: LET NO MAN DECEIVE HIMSELF. Self-deceit is the ground of all other deceit. Whatever deceit is abroad, it begins at home.. deceitful heart will not spare so much as it...