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1 Corinthians 4:10
We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honorable, but we are despised.
We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honorable, but we are despised.
Verse 1 Corinthians 4:10. _WE_ ARE _FOOLS FOR CHRIST'S SAKE_] Here he still carries on the allusion to the public spectacles among the Romans, where they were accustomed to hiss, hoot, mock, and vari...
WE ARE FOOLS - This is evidently ironical. “We are doubtless foolish people, but ye are wise in Christ. We, Paul, Apollos, and Barnabas, have no claims to the character of wise men - we are to be rega...
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 Ch...
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)...
Brothers, I have transferred these things by way of illustration to myself and to Apollos, so that through us you may learn to observe the principle of not going beyond that which is written, so that...
FOOLS. Greek. _moros,_ as in 1 Corinthians 1:25; 1 Corinthians 1:27. HONOURABLE. Greek. _endoxos._ Elsewhere translated "gorgeously", Luke 7:25, and "glorious" in...
_We are fools for Christ's sake_ Rather, ON ACCOUNT OF CHRIST, i.e. on account of His doctrine, which was looked upon as folly (ch. 1 Corinthians 1:23; 1 Corinthians 2:14). _ye are wise in Christ Prud...
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...
ΜΩΡΟῚ ΔΙᾺ ΧΡΙΣΤΌΝ. FOOLS ON ACCOUNT OF CHRIST, in reference to the labours and sufferings they underwent in His cause, but which it were folly to have undergone, if the Corinthian theory of the Christ...
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...
ΉΜΕΪΣ _пот. pl. от_ ΈΓ я (G1473) мы! Эмфатическое, противопоставленное ΎΜΕΊΣ. ΜΩΡΌΣ (G3474) тупой, глупый, нелепый, смешной (_см._ 1 Corinthians 1:18; TLNT). Praed. _пот._ без артикля подчеркивает ос...
WE ARE WEAK— "In an infirm and suffering state." See 2 Corinthians 12:10. Surely we cannot imagine any more glorious triumph of the truth, than what was gained in these circumstances; when St. Paul, w...
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,...
We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised. Irony. How much your lot (supposing it to be real) is to be envied...
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....
PARAPHRASE. 'In speaking of the folly of these divisions I have used only the names of Apollos and myself; but the same principles apply to your attitude to all your teachers. (7) Why do some of you p...
The sarcasm is continued. WE _are_ FOOLS] in preaching the foolishness of the Cross. YE _are_ WISE] i.e. shrewd, clever....
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...
WE ARE FOOLS. — This verse is charged with irony. Our connection with Christ, as His Apostles and preachers, may make us fools; you are, on the contrary, “wise Christians; we are weak Christians, ye s...
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...
represents the contrasted case of the App. and the Cor [726] Christians, as they appear in the estimate of the two parties. “We” are μωροί, ἀσθενεῖς, ἄτιμοι (_cf._ 1 Corinthians 1:18-27; 1 Corinthians...
§ 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 suff...
“We are fools for Christ's sake, ye are wise in Christ; we weak, ye strong; ye honourable, we despised.” The contrast between the two situations enunciated in 1 Corinthians 4:8-9 is expressed in 1 Cor...
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...
10._We are fools for Christ’s sake _This contrast is throughout ironical, and exceedingly pointed, it being unseemly and absurd that the Corinthians should be in every respect happy and honorable, acc...
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...
WE ARE FOOLS FOR CHRIST'S SAKE,.... They were so in the esteem of men, for their close attach merit to a crucified Christ; and for preaching the doctrine of salvation by him; and for enduring so much...
We _are_ fools for Christ's sake, but ye _are_ wise in Christ; we _are_ weak, but ye _are_ strong; ye _are_ honourable, but we _are_ despised. Ver. 10. _We are fools, &c._] Not to the world only, but...
_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...
WE ARE FOOLS; accounted fools by those who boast of their wisdom. FOR CHRIST'S SAKE; because we devote ourselves faithfully to the work of preaching Christ crucified, and seek only his honor. YE ARE...
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...
WE ARE FOOLS FOR CHRIST'S SAKE, BUT YE ARE WISE IN CHRIST; WE ARE WEAK, BUT YE ARE STRONG; YE HAVE GLORY, BUT WE HAVE DISHONOR. 'We' -apostles 'FOOLS FOR CHRIST'S SAKE' -Paul had sacrificed. gloriou...
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...
WE ARE accounted FOOLS FOR CHRIST'S SAKE by the _wise_ men of the world, and we are willing to be so accounted; but you think yourselves wise, and yet IN CHRIST. WE ARE WEAK in the opinion of men, we...
We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye have glory, but we have dishonor. [In this verse Paul resumes his satire, contrasting the vain imagination...
1 Corinthians 4:10 We G2249 fools G3474 for G1223 Christs G5547 sake G1223 but G1161 you G5210 wise G5429
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...
‘For, I think, God has set forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels and to men. We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wi...
1 Corinthians 4:10. WE ARE FOOLS FOR CHRIST'S SAKE, BUT YE ARE WISE IN CHRIST how enviable your lot, how pitiable ours! (irony, however, this is) WE WEAK, YE STRONG; YE HAVE GLORY, WE DISHONOUR....
WE--YOU (ημεισ--υμεις). Triple contrast in keenest ironical emphasis. "The three antitheses refer respectively to teaching, demeanour, and worldly position" (Robertson and Plummer). The apostles wer...
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...
FOR CHRIST'S SAKE. What the apostles did, can only be explained by their LOVE for Christ! Paul speaks in irony, as he repeats what his enemies at Corinth were saying about him. In the same spirit of i...
_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...
_We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ._ THE FOLLY OF PAUL The better to serve Christ, Paul refrained from making acquirement of knowledge his chief aim. And many others have reno...
A FOOL'S CAP I have played the fool. 1 Samuel 26:21. Fools for Christ's sake. 1 Corinthians 4:10. Long ago, there used to hang in my bedroom prints of two pictures by the famous artist Sir David Wi...
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),
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...
_We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ._ This is a continuation of the irony of ver. 8. We are reckoned fools because of Christ crucified, whom we preach, and for whose sake we see...
_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 1:1; 1 Corinthians 1:18; 1 Corinthians 1:26; 1 Corinthians 10:12;...
For Christ's sake - in Christ [δ ι α χ ρ ι σ τ ο ν - ε ν χ ρ ι σ τ ω]. We apostles are fools in the world's eyes on account of [δ ι α] Christ, because we know and preach nothing but Christ : You are w...
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 are fools, in the account of the world, for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ — Though ye are Christians, ye think yourselves wise; and ye have found means to make the world think you so too...