If any preacher keeps the foundation, and the doctrine which he hath built upon the true foundation prove consonant to the will of Christ, God will reward him for his labour: he shall hear the voice saying: Well done, good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.
Verse 1 Corinthians 3:14. _IF ANY MAN'S WORK ABIDE_] Perhaps there is here an allusion to the purifying of different sorts of vessels under the law. All that could stand the fire were to be purified...
IF ANY MAN’S WORK ABIDE ... - If it shall appear that he hast taught the true doctrines of Christianity, and inculcated right practices and views of piety, and himself cherished right feelings: if the...
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...
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...
THE SUPREME IMPORTANCE OF GOD (1 Corinthians 3:1-9)...
ABIDE. Greek. _meno_. See p. 1511....
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...
ΜΈΝΕΙ. Tischendorf and Westcott and Hort read μενεῖ, with the Vetus Lat. and the Peshito. ἐποικοδόμησεν אABD. C only supports the rec. reading ἐπῳκοδόμησεν. Winer (Pt II. § 12) remarks that authority...
CHRISTIAN MINISTERS ONLY LABOURERS OF MORE OR LESS EFFICIENCY, THE SUBSTANTIAL WORK BEING GOD’S...
_THE FOUNDATION IS CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS 3:11-15:_ Christ is the foundation, and we are to be careful that we build in a scriptural and spiritual way on Him. He is the only foundation upon which you ca...
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DISCOURSE: 1946 INSTRUCTIONS TO THOSE WHO BUILD UPON THE TRUE FOUNDATION 1 Corinthians 3:12. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; every man’s wo...
NOW IF ANY MAN BUILD, &C.— "Though no man who pretends to be a preacher of the Gospel can build upon any other foundation than that of Jesus Christ, yet you ought not to cry up your new instructor, wh...
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...
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...
If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. ABIDE - the testing fire (Matthew 3:11). WHICH HE HATH BUILT THEREUPON - on the foundation. REWARD - wages, as...
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...
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...
This is the general application to Christian teachers of what has gone before. Those who have built well shall have their reward in their work having survived the trial of the fire; those who have bui...
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...
The opp [570] issues of the fiery assay are stated under parl [571] hypotheses: εἴ τινος τὸ ἔργον … μενεῖ … εἴ τινος τὸ ἔργον κατακαήσεται, “If any one's work shall abide … shall be burned up”. The do...
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...
Testing the Building Materials McGarvey suggests the building materials Paul mentioned were very familiar to the brethren at Corinth. The first three building materials, gold, silver and precious ston...
Now if any man build, &c. This is a hard place, says St. Augustine, lib. de fid. & Oper. chap. xvi. tom. 6. p. 180. The interpreters are divided, as to the explication and application of this metaphor...
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...
“If any man's work shall abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive the reward; 15. if any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss [of reward]; but he himself shall be saved, yet s...
(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...
14._If any man’s work remains, he will receive a reward. _His meaning is, that those are fools who depend on man’s estimation, so as to reckon it enough to be approved by men, for _then only _will the...
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...
IF ANY MAN'S WORK ABIDE,.... That is, if any minister's doctrine will bear the test of daylight, to be looked into, and abide the fire of the word; as gold, silver, and precious stones will, or such d...
If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. Ver. 14. _If any man's work abide_] Error as glass is bright, but brittle, and cannot endure the hammer or fire, as g...
_If any maws work abide which he hath built_, &c. If the superstructure which any minister of Christ raises on the true foundation, if the doctrines which he preaches can bear the test by which they s...
IF ANY MAN'S WORK ABIDE; if his preaching and practice are approved, HE SHALL RECEIVE A REWARD; a reward of grace....
IF ANY MAN'S WORK ABIDE WHICH HE HATH BUILT THEREUPON, HE SHALL RECEIVE A REWARD....
The building itself:...
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...
IF ANY MAN'S WORK SHALL ABIDE WHICH HE BUILT THEREON, HE SHALL RECEIVE. REWARD. 'shall abide' -while fire consumes wood, hay and stubble, it only is able to melt such things as gold and silver. 'HE...
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...
If any man's work shall abide which he built thereon, he shall receive a reward....
1 Corinthians 3:14 anyones G1536 work G2041 which G3739 on G2026 (G5656) endures G3306 (G5719) receive G2983
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...
‘If any man's work shall remain which he has built on it, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned he shall suffer loss. But he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.' The...
1 Corinthians 3:14. IF ANY MAN'S WORK SHALL ABIDE WHICH HE BUILT THEREUPON as being built of the incombustible materials and on the true foundation, and hence able to abide the fiery trial. HE SHALL...
IF ANY MAN'S WORK SHALL ABIDE (ε τινος το εργον μενε). Condition of the first class with future indicative, determined as fulfilled, assumed as true. When the fire has done its work, what is left?...
REWARD God, in the New Testament Scriptures, offers to the lost, salvation, and, for the faithful service of the saved, rewards. The passages are easily distinguished by remembering that salvation is...
1 Corinthians 3:14 Two Builders on One Foundation. I. Consider, first, the two builders and their work. The original application of these words is distinctly to Christian teachers. The wood, hay, and...
1 Corinthians 3:12 This is an awful passage; one whose import no man to whom has been committed the care of souls can realise without trembling. But it has a lesson for all laity as well as clergy on...
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,...
SURVIVES THE FIRE. [Some, misunderstanding and thinking the Day of Christ to mean the Judgment, have taught that both the righteous and wicked will be burned in the fires of hell (purgatory); the wick...
_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...
_Now if any man build on this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble._ CLASSIC BUILDINGS AND THEIR MATERIALS In such cities as Ephesus, where this letter was written, or Corinth...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 3:14 REWARD.... LOSS... SAVED... AS THROUGH FIRE. See also v. 1 Corinthians 3:8 and...
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 3:8; 1 Corinthians 4:5; 1 Peter 5:1; 1 Peter 5:4;...
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...
He shall receive a reward — A peculiar degree of glory. Some degree even the other will receive, seeing he held the foundation; though through ignorance he built thereon what would not abide the fire....
Does this passage support the Roman Catholic view of purgatory? PROBLEM: Roman Catholics appeal to this passage in support of the doctrine of temporary punishment for those not good enough to go direc...