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Verse 1 Corinthians 3:6. _I HAVE PLANTED_] I first sowed the seed of
the Gospel at Corinth, and in the region of Achaia.
_APOLLOS WATERED_] Apollos came after me, and, by his preachings and
exhortat...
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I HAVE PLANTED - The apostle here compares the establishment of the
church at Corinth to the planting of a vine, a tree, or of grain. The
figure is taken from agriculture, and the meaning is obvious....
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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
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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...
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THE SUPREME IMPORTANCE OF GOD (1 Corinthians 3:1-9)...
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And I, brothers, could not talk to you as I would to spiritual men,
but I had to talk to you as to those who had not yet got beyond merely
human things, as to infants in Christ. I gave you milk to dri...
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HAVE PLANTED. planted. See Acts 18:1.
WATERED. Greek. _potizo_, as in 1 Corinthians 3:2. See Acts 18:27 Acts
19:1.
GOD. Ap
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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...
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ἘΓῺ ἘΦΎΤΕΥΣΑ, ἈΠΟΛΛῺΣ ἘΠΌΤΙΣΕΝ,
ἈΛΛᾺ Ὁ ΘΕῸΣ ΗΥ̓́ΞΑΝΕΝ. I PLANTED, APOLLOS
WATERED, BUT GOD GAVE THE INCREASE. The Apostle would lead his
converts from the thought of those who had ministered the Gospe...
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CHRISTIAN MINISTERS ONLY LABOURERS OF MORE OR LESS EFFICIENCY, THE
SUBSTANTIAL WORK BEING GOD’S...
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_THE PREACHERS ARE SERVANTS 1 CORINTHIANS 3:5-10:_ Apollos and Paul
were merely servants or ministers that had helped these brethren have
faith. Paul had no desire for preachers to receive special hon...
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ΈΦΎΤΕΥΣΑ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΦΥΤΕΎΩ (G5452)
сажать. Указывает на основание
Коринфской церкви (Schrage; _см._ Fujita, "The
Metaphor of Plant in Jewish Literature of the Intertestamental Period"
JJS 7 ...
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DISCOURSE: 1944
UNDUE PARTIALITY TO MINISTERS REPROVED
1 Corinthians 3:5. _Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but
ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? I
have planted,...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
1 Corinthians 3:5-9 Builders: All Christians are workers in God's
fieldbuilders on God's building. What are apostles? Workers, like
every other Christian. They may have gifts from Go...
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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 plant...
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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...
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I HAVE PLANTED] St. Paul founded the Church at Corinth (Acts 18:1).
APOLLOS WATERED] Acts 18:27....
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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...
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PARAPHRASE. 'Te yourselves, brethren, are an illustration of what I
say. (2) I have treated you as beginners and given you elementary
Christian teaching, for hitherto you have been unfit for any other...
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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...
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I HAVE PLANTED, APOLLOS WATERED. — By an image borrowed from the
processes of agriculture the Apostle explains the relation in which
his teaching stood to that of Apollos — and how all the results wer...
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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...
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The grammatical obj [500] of this sentence has been given by the
foregoing context, _viz._, the Cor [501] Church of believers (_cf._ 1
Corinthians 4:15). φυτεύω Paul uses besides only in 1
Corinthians...
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§ 9. GOD'S RIGHTS IN THE CHURCH. One idea runs through this chapter
and into the next, that of _God's_ Church, _God's_ temple at Corinth,
in whose construction so many various builders are engaged (1...
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PROSPERITY COMES FROM GOD
1 Corinthians 3:1
In all our relations with our fellow-men, Christ's followers must
realize their obligations as members of one great family, with one
God. A man may be _in...
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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...
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Increase Comes From God
Paul wanted to know what it was about Apollos and himself that could
cause division. They were both "ministers," which is the same word
translated "deacons" in Acts 6:2 and me...
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(3) I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
(3) He beautifies the former sentence, with two similarities: first
comparing the company of the faithful to a field which God makes
fru...
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“I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase; 7. So then
neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth, but
God that giveth the increase.” The asyndeton between 1 Corinthian...
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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...
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(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...
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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...
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_CHRISTIAN UNITY_
‘I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.’
1 Corinthians 3:6
St. Paul pleaded with the Corinthians for unity of spirit. Had he
lived now, I do not think he woul...
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6._I have planted, Apollos watered _He unfolds more clearly the nature
of that ministry by a similitude, in which the nature of the word and
the use of preaching are most appropriately depicted. That...
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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...
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I HAVE PLANTED,.... That is, ministerially; otherwise the planting of
souls in Christ, and the implanting of grace in them, are things
purely divine, and peculiar to God, and the power of his grace; b...
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I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
Ver. 6. _But God gave the increase_] The harp yields no sound till it
be touched by the hand of the musician. The heart is never made good...
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_For while one saith, I am of Paul_ I am one of Paul's disciples,
admiring his sublime sentiments, and being greatly edified by his
instructive discourses: _and another, I am of Apollos_ I give the
pr...
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I HAVE PLANTED; Paul first preached the gospel to the Corinthians and
gathered the church.
APOLLOS WATERED; he came after Paul and further instructed the people.
GOD GAVE THE INCREASE; all the succe...
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All ministers of Christ of equal rank:...
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I HAVE PLANTED, APOLLOS WATERED; BUT GOD GAVE THE INCREASE....
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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...
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1 CORINTHIANS 3:6. PLANTED, APOLLOS WATERED; BUT GOD GAVE THE
INCREASE.
'Paul got the work of redemption going among the Corinthians and
Apollos followed up on it and "watered it" (Acts 18:27). But i...
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5-9 The ministers about whom the Corinthians contended, were only
instruments used by God. We should not put ministers into the place of
God. He that planteth and he that watereth are one, employed b...
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God honoured me first to preach the gospel amongst you, ACTS 18:1 &c.,
and blessed my preaching to convert you unto Christ; then I left you:
Apollos stayed behind, and he WATERED what I had PLANTED, d...
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I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase....
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Tertullian An Answer to the Jews
But the new law's wont was to point to clemency, and to convert to
tranquillity the pristine ferocity of "glaives" and "lances," and to
remodel the pristine execution...
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1 Corinthians 3:6 I G1473 planted G5452 (G5656) Apollos G625 watered
G4222 (G5656) but G235 God G2316 increas
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‘What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Ministers through whom you
believed, and each one as the Lord gave to him. I planted, Apollos
watered, but God gave the increase.'
Elsewhere Paul will tell Christi...
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1 Corinthians 3:6. I PLANTED: YES; the first ground at Corinth was
indeed broken by me, and I am your spiritual father.
APOLLOS WATERED following up what I began. But though in husbandry
planting go...
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I PLANTED
(εγω εφυτευσα). First aorist active indicative of old verb
φυτευω. This Paul did as Luke tells us in Acts 18:1-18.APOLLOS
WATERED
(Απολλως εποτισεν). Apollos irrigated the church there
a...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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,...
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I PLANTED THE SEED. "I planted you in God's field, Apollos (and
others) watered you, by teaching you, but it was God who made you
grow." [This shows there are two basic kinds of preachers: _planting_...
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_I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase._ I was
the first to sow the seeds of the faith at Corinth, and then Apollos
coming after me helped it forward (Act 18:26). But it was God w...
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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...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
1 Corinthians 3:5.—Better reading “_what?_” not “_who?_”
Also “_through_.” Not, “As the Lord gave _to every man of you_
the type of teacher he needed”; but, “As the Lord allotted _to...
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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...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 1:30; 1 Corinthians 15:10; 1 Corinthians 15:1; 1
Corinthians 3:10;...
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Planted - watered - gave the increase [ε φ υ τ ε υ σ α - ε π
ο τ ι σ ε ν - η υ ξ α ν ε ν]. The first two verbs are in
the aorist tense, marking definite acts; the third is in the
imperfect, marking th...
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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...
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I PLANTED; That is,. first preached the gospel among you, and first
instructed you in the principles of Christ.. converted you to Christ:
after me came Apollos, and watered the seed which. had sown: b...