I have laid the foundation well, as a wise architect, not of myself, but according to the grace of God, and the gifts he bestowed upon me: and another, or several others, built upon it, continue the building. --- But let every man take heed how he buildeth, and that it be always upon the same foundation, which is Christ Jesus, his faith, and his doctrine. (Witham)
Verse 1 Corinthians 3:10. _AS A WISE MASTER BUILDER_] Ὡς σοφος αρχιτεκτων. The _design_ or _plan_ of the building is from God; all things must be done according to the _pattern_ which he has exhibit...
ACCORDING TO THE GRACE OF GOD - By the favor of God which is given to me. All that Paul had done had been by the mere favor of God. His appointment was from him; and all the skill which he had shown,...
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
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...
THE SUPREME IMPORTANCE OF GOD (1 Corinthians 3:1-9)...
According to the grace of God that was given to me, I laid the foundation like a skilled master-builder, but another builds upon it. Let each see to it how he builds upon it; for no one can lay any ot...
GRACE. App-184. MASTERBUILDER. Greek. _architekton._ Only here. HAVE. The texts omit. FOUNDATION. Compare App-146. ANOTHER. App-124. BUILDETH THEREON. Greek. _epoikodomeo._ See Acts 20:32. TAKE...
_According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder_ Rather, _which_ WAS _given to me_, i.e. when he laid the foundation. St Paul now desires to identify himself with the te...
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...
ἜΘΗΚΑ אABC, for the rec. τέθεικα. 10. ΤῊΝ ΔΟΘΕΙ͂ΣΆΝ ΜΟΙ. WHICH WAS GIVEN TO ME, i. e. when I laid the foundation. ὩΣ ΣΟΦῸΣ�. St Paul now desires to identify himself with the teachers of the Corinthia...
CHRISTIAN MINISTERS ONLY LABOURERS OF MORE OR LESS EFFICIENCY, THE SUBSTANTIAL WORK BEING GOD’S...
_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...
ΔΟΘΕΊΣΑΝ _aor. pass. part. (adj.) от_ ΔΊΔΩΜΙ (G1325) давать, ΆΡΧΙΤΈΚΤΩΝ (G753) архитектор, строитель, мастер, умелый ремесленник (Philo, On Dreams 2, 8). Строитель был ответственным за планировку и в...
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...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The Church is the Temple of God_ (10-17) _Text_ 1 Corinthians 3:10-17. According to the grace of God which was given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder I laid a foundation; and a...
According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. GRAC...
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...
ANOTHER BUILDETH] Apollos and others carried on the work begun by St. Paul. HOW HE BUILDETH] The Apostle indicates the great responsibilities of Christian ministers and teachers, 11, 12. OTHER FOUNDAT...
PARAPHRASE. 'Let me remind you that by the favour of God I was the founder of your Church. Those who followed me took up my work. (11) The foundation I laid was faith in Jesus Christ. (12) No one can...
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...
ACCORDING TO THE GRACE OF GOD. — The Apostle being about to speak of himself as “a wise masterbuilder,” takes care by commencing his statement with these words to show that he is not indulging in self...
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...
§ 10. THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE HUMAN BUILDERS. After the long digression on Wisdom (1 Corinthians 1:17 to 1 Corinthians 3:2), occasioned by the Hellenic misconception of the Gospel underlying the Cor...
Κατὰ τὴν χάριν κ. τ. λ.: while “the grace of God” has been given to all Christians, constituting them such (see 1 Corinthians 1:4), to the Ap. a special and singular “grace was given,” “according to”...
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...
The Church is God's Building Then, Paul and Apollos were workers together under God. The field they worked in, which literally could be translated "tilled land," was God's. To further illustrate, Paul...
According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. (4) But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. (4)...
“According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise master builder, I laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon; but let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon!” The apost...
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...
(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...
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...
_GOD AND THE SOUL_ ‘Ye are God’s husbandry.’ 1 Corinthians 3:9 What this text tells us is this—that Christian people are to God just what the tillage of the earth is to us. I. OUR HEARTS AND SOULS...
10._As a wise master-builder _It is a most apt similitude, and accordingly it is frequently met with in the Scriptures, as we shall see ere long. Here, however, the Apostle declares his fidelity with...
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...
ACCORDING TO THE GRACE OF GOD WHICH IS GIVEN UNTO ME,.... Lest the apostle should be thought to be too much elated with the characters he had given of himself, and other ministers, or to assume too mu...
According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. Ver. 10...
_According to the grace of God_ This he premises, lest he should seem to ascribe any thing to himself; _as a wise master-builder_ A _skilful architect_, directed by divine wisdom; _I have laid the fou...
I HAVE LAID THE FOUNDATION; Paul first preached to the Corinthians Christ crucified, an atoning sacrifice for sin, as the only and all-sufficient foundation for human hope; and gathered such as appear...
ACCORDING TO THE GRACE OF GOD WHICH IS GIVEN UNTO ME, AS A WISE MASTER BUILDER, I HAVE LAID THE FOUNDATION, AND ANOTHER BUILDS THEREON. BUT LET EVERY MAN TAKE HEED HOW HE BUILDS THEREUPON....
The laborers and the foundation:...
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...
ACCORDING TO THE GRACE OF GOD WHICH WAS GIVEN UNTO ME, AS. WISE MASTERBUILDER. LAID. FOUNDATION; AND ANOTHER BUILDETH THEREON. BUT LET EACH MAN TAKE HEED HOW HE BUILDETH THEREON. 'According to the gr...
10-15 The apostle was a wise master-builder; but the grace of God made him such. Spiritual pride is abominable; it is using the greatest favours of God, to feed our own vanity, and make idols of ours...
OLBGrk; ACCORDING TO THE GRACE OF GOD WHICH IS GIVEN UNTO ME: carin here signifies either the ability which God hath given Paul to preach the gospel, or the apostolical office, to which God had called...
According to the grace [apostleship with its attendant gifts-- Romans 1:5; Galatians 1:15-16; Ephesians 3:8] _of God which was given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder I laid a foundation_ [In Corinth P...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book V "According to the grace," it is said, "given to me as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation. And another buildeth on it gold and silver, precious ston...
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‘According to the grace (of God) which was given to me, I laid a foundation like a wise master-builder, and another builds on it. But let each man be very careful how he builds on it.' Following up th...
THAT IS WHY THESE TEACHERS ARE UNITED IN THEIR WORK KNOWING THEY MUST ACCOUNT TO GOD FOR THEIR MINISTRY (3:8-15). Paul now puts all these teachers, including himself, firmly in their place. They are b...
1 Corinthians 3:10. ACCORDING TO THE GRACE OF GOD WHICH WAS GIVEN UNTO ME, AS A WISE MASTER-BUILDER, I LAID A FOUNDATION alluding to our Lord's parable of the “wise man who built his house upon the ro...
AS A WISE MASTERBUILDER (ως σοφος αρχιτεκτων). Paul does not shirk his share in the work at Corinth with all the sad outcome there. He absolves Apollos from responsibility for the divisions. He deni...
GRACE Grace (imparted). (1 Corinthians 15:10); (Romans 6:1); (2 Peter 3:18)....
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....
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,...
THAT GOD GAVE ME. God himself made Paul an apostle. I DID THE WORK. As an apostle, Paul laid _the foundation_ everywhere he went. He did this by proclaiming the Good News of God's act in Christ to set...
_According to the grace of God … as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation … But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon._ ALL OF GRACE Now when we say a godly man acknowledgeth...
_According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation._ Not mine is this building, not mine the works; for although I, as the first architect, laid...
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 3:10.—WAS GIVEN … I LAID, _q.d_. “when I was at Corinth.” “_A_ foundation,” “which I subjectively laid in my teaching at Corinth, because God had already laid the same o...
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 15:10; 1 Corinthians 15:11; 1 Corinthians 15:12; 1 Corinthians 3:11;...
Grace. The special endowment for his apostolic work. Compare Romans 1:5, grace and apostleship : Romans 12:3; Romans 12:6; Ephesians 3:7;...
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...
According to the grace of God given to me — This he premises, lest he should seem to ascribe it to himself. Let every one take heed how he buildeth thereon — That all his doctrines may be consistent w...
Observe here, 1. The character which St. Paul assumes to himself, namely, that of. master-builder, yea, of A WISE MASTER-BUILDER. But was it not vain-glorious in the apostle thus to describe himself?...