Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;

Enumeration of the "all things." The teachers in whom they gloried he puts first (). He omits after "Cephas," or Christ, to whom exclusively some () professed to belong; for he stands infinitely above the category, Paul, Apollos, etc.; since only through Him they are what they are; but substitutes "ye are Christ's" ().

World, or life, or death, or things present (until Christ's coming and kingdom) ... things to come (after it). Not only shall they not "separate you from the love of God in Christ" (Romans 8:38), but they "all are yours" (Mark 10:29), as they belong to Christ your head ().

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