Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Corinthians 3:3
For while there is among you emulation in your hearts, strife in your words, and actual divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk according to men — As mere men; not as Christians, according to God.
For while there is among you emulation in your hearts, strife in your words, and actual divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk according to men — As mere men; not as Christians, according to God.
1 CORINTHIANS 3:3 e;rij {B} Although the reading e;rij kai. dicostasi,ai has early and diversified attestation (î46 D (G) 33 614 _Byz_ itd, g, 61 syrp, h Marcion _al_), the absence of kai. dicostasi,...
Verse 1 Corinthians 3:3. THERE IS _AMONG YOU ENVYING, AND STRIFE, AND_ _DIVISIONS_] ζηλος και ερις και διχοστασιαι. There are _three_ things here worthy of note: these people were wrong in _thought,_...
FOR YE ARE YET CARNAL - Though you are Christians, and are the friends of God in the main, yet your divisions and strifes show that you are yet, in some degree, under the influence of the principles w...
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)...
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...
CARNAL. Greek. _sarkikos._ See 1 Corinthians 3:1.Romans 7:14. AMONG. App-104. ENVYING. Greek. _zelos._ See Acts 5:17. STRIFE. Greek. _eris._ See...
_For ye are yet carnal_ The word _carnal_conveys a stronger reproach than _natural_(ch. 1 Corinthians 2:14). The latter, as we have seen, signifies the man whose hopes and desires are bounded by the l...
THE PARTIZANSHIP OF THE CORINTHIANS A HINDRANCE TO SPIRITUAL PROGRESS ΚἈΓΏ, ἈΔΕΛΦΟΊ, ΟΥ̓Κ ἨΔΥΝΉΘΗΝ ΛΑΛΗ͂ΣΑΙ ὙΜΙ͂Ν. The Apostle has said much of the superiority of the wisdom which is the result of sp...
3. [καὶ διχοστασίαι] after ἜΡΙΣ, rec. אABC and Vulg. omit these Words. But in favour of their retention there is the fact that the present Greek text of Irenaeus and the early Latin translation contai...
_THE BRETHREN WERE CARNAL 1 CORINTHIANS 3:1-4:_ When Paul wrote this epistle the brethren were acting like people of this world. They were acting like babies as far as their faith is Christ was concer...
ΣΑΡΚΙΚΌΣ (G4559) плотский, принадлежащий плоти, управляемый плотью. Слова с этим окончанием указывают на этические или динамические отношения (RP). Плоть — эгоистичное отношение к миру, которое ведет...
AND WALK AS MEN?— _Speaking according to man,_ signifies, speaking according to the principles of natural reason, in contradistinction to revelation. See ch. 1 Corinthians 9:8. Galatians 1:11 and so _...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Commence With Spiritual Feeding (1 Corinthians 3:1-4) 3 But I, brethren, could not address you as spiritual men, but as men of the flesh, as babes in Christ. 2I fed you w...
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? ENVYING - jealousy, rivalry. This refers to their feelings; "strife," t...
21 To this day the great, the noble, and the wise are a small minority among the true saints of God. It is a matter of extreme thankfulness that this is so. If high birth or wisdom or any other attain...
3:3 carnal. (i-5) carnal, (i-18) _ Sarkinos_ . as Romans 7:14 ; Hebrews 7:16 ; 2 Corinthians 3:3 . This word is said to mean properly the material -- the composition of a thing. 'Carnal,' twice in ve...
CARNAL] The Gk. here is different from that in 1 Corinthians 3:1, and means 'fleshly,' i.e. walking in the lusts of the flesh....
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. '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...
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...
NEITHER YET NOW ARE YE ABLE, FOR YE ARE YET CARNAL. — Better, _but not even now are ye able, for ye are still carnal._ It is for this absence of growth — for their continuing up to this time in the sa...
FOR WHEREAS. — Better, _For since there is._ AS MEN. — Better, _after the manner of man_ — _i.e.,_ after a merely human and not after a spiritually enlightened manner. In Romans 3:5; Galatians 1:2, al...
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...
§ 12. CHRIST'S SERVANTS ANSWERABLE TO HIMSELF. The Ap. has shown his readers their own true position so high and yet so lowly (§ 11); Paul, Apollos, Cephas are but part of a universe of ministry that...
Ἀλλʼ οὐδὲ ἔτι νῦν δύνασθε : “Nay, but not even yet (after this further interval), at the present time, are you strong enough (_immo ne nunc quidem adhuc potestis_, Bz [466]), for you are yet carnal”....
§ 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...
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...
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...
Division Is Carnal The Corinthians had grown slowly in spiritual things. They still clung to carnal things like envy and strife (1 Corinthians 3:1). Like those at Ephesus, they needed not to be "child...
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas [there is] among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as (d) men? (d) Using the tools of man's intellect and judgment....
_And walk according to man? As carnal and sensual men, as long as there are jealousies and divisions among you. (Witham)_...
“For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying and strifes, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? 4. For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I of Apollos, are ye not men?” The ap...
3:1-4. After demonstrating that though the gospel is not a wisdom, yet it contains one, but one which cannot be expounded except to those who by their spiritual maturity are in a condition to understa...
(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...
3._For ye are as yet carnal _So long as the flesh, that is to say, natural corruption, prevails in a man, it has so completely possession of the man’s mind, that the wisdom of God finds no admittance....
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...
FOR YE ARE YET CARNAL,.... The Syriac reads it, בבסר אנתון, "ye are in the flesh": a phrase the apostle elsewhere uses of men in an unregenerate state; but this is not his meaning here, as before exp...
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas _there is_ among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? Ver. 3. _For ye are yet carnal_] It is a shame for Christians to be lik...
_And I, brethren_ The apostle having, in the latter part of the preceding chapter, observed that mere natural men, still unenlightened and unrenewed, receive not the things of the Spirit, begins this...
CARNAL, AND WALK AS MEN; selfish and worldly in their feelings and conduct....
A REPROOF OF SPIRITUAL PRIDE. The marks of carnal men:...
FOR YE ARE YET CARNAL; FOR, WHEREAS THERE IS AMONG YOU ENVYING AND STRIFE AND DIVISIONS, ARE YE NOT CARNAL AND WALK AS MEN? Paul has held before the Christians of Corinth the wonderful blessings which...
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...
DIVISIONS: Or, factions AS MEN?: _ Gr._ according to man...
FOR YE ARE YET CARNAL: FOR WHEREAS THERE IS AMONG YOU JEALOUSY AND STRIFE, ARE YE NOT CARNAL, AND DO YE NOT WALK AFTER THE MANNER OF MEN? 'carnal' -4559. sarkikos sar-kee-kos'; from 4561; pertaining...
1-4 The most simple truths of the gospel, as to man's sinfulness and God's mercy, repentance towards God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, stated in the plainest language, suit the people better t...
FOR YE ARE YET CARNAL; not wholly carnal, but in a great measure so, not having your lusts and corrupt affections entirely subdued to the will of God, nor yet so much subdued as some other Christians...
for ye are yet carnal [showing undue reverence for men, etc.]: _for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal_ [Galatians 5:19-20; James 3:16], _and do ye not walk after the ma...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV "For when envying and strife," he says, "and dissensions are among you, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? "[621] Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I For he...
1 Corinthians 3:3 for G1063 are G2075 (G5748) still G2089 carnal G4559 For G1063 where G3699 envy G2205...
UNFORTUNATELY THEIR PRESENT BEHAVIOUR IS A SIGN OF THEIR IMMATURITY FOR THE OBJECTS OF THEIR DEVOTION ARE BUT INSTRUMENTS OF GOD. THEIR EYES ARE FIXED IN THE WRONG PLACE (3:1-7) ‘And I, brothers, coul...
1 Corinthians 3:3. FOR WHEREAS THERE IS AMONG YOU JEALOUSY each party for its favourite preacher. AND STRIFE engendered by such jealousies (the next words in the received text, “and divisions,” are...
FOR YE ARE YET CARNAL (ετ γαρ σαρκικο εστε). Σαρκικος, unlike σαρκινος, like ικος formations, means adapted to, fitted for the flesh (σαρξ), one who lives according to the flesh (κατα σαρκα). Paul b...
CARNEL That is, fleshy....
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...
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....
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,...
BECAUSE YOU STILL LIVE. Their lives are no different from the unconverted. DOESN'T THIS PROVE? They are jealous and quarrel like men of the world. Compare Galatians 5:19-21....
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 3:1 FLESH can mean different things in Scripture. In Paul’s letters it often refers to unredeemed human nature, along with its desires and typical behaviors....
_Whereas there is among you envying and strife... are ye not carnal?_ (1.) The word carnal is here applied to one who not only has his natural use of sense and reason, but also to one who follows the...
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 3:1. AND I.—_Q.d_. “As any other ‘spiritual’ teacher would have to do.” So Ellicott; but perhaps laying undue stress upon the “_and_,” which, if more than merely a half-...
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 1:11; 1 Corinthians 11:18; 1 Corinthians 6:1; 1 Peter 4:2;...
Carnal [σ α ρ κ ι κ ο ι]. Here the milder word is used (see ver. 1), having the nature of flesh. In ver. 1, Paul would say that he was compelled to address the Corinthians as unspiritual, made of fles...
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...
That is, "Ye are in. great measure carnal; for your envy, strife, and divisions prove you to be so, and that you live according to the corrupt nature of man." They had the seed and root of grace abidi...