Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary
1 Corinthians 3:20
καὶ πάλιν. In Psalms 94:11. It is curious that the first of these citations does not, and the second does, agree with the LXX.
διαλογισμούς. The reasonings, literally.
καὶ πάλιν. In Psalms 94:11. It is curious that the first of these citations does not, and the second does, agree with the LXX.
διαλογισμούς. The reasonings, literally.
Verse 20. _THE LORD KNOWETH THE THOUGHTS OF THE WISE_] They are always full of schemes and plans for earthly good; and God knows that all this is _vain, empty_, and unsatisfactory; and will stand the...
AND AGAIN, - Psalms 94:11. THE LORD KNOWETH - God searches the heart. The particular thing which it is here said that he knows, is, that the thoughts of man are vain. They have this quality; and this...
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
IT IS A FALSE WISDOM THAT PITS ONE LEADER AGAINST ANOTHER: ALL ARE YOURS. Paul warns against the self-deception which causes a man to overrate his own judgment. Better renounce his worldly wisdom, whi...
THE SUPREME IMPORTANCE OF GOD (1 Corinthians 3:1-9)...
Do you not know that you are God's temple, and that the Spirit of God has his dwelling place in you? If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for the temple of God is holy and you a...
THE LORD. No art. App-98. KNOWETH. App-132. THOUGHTS. reasonings. VAIN. Greek. _mataios._ See Acts 14:15. Quoted from Psalms 94:11....
_And again_ This passage occurs in Psalms 94:11....
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...
_THE TEMPLE IS THE CHURCH 1 CORINTHIANS 3:16-23:_ As members of the church we should be spiritual people because the church of Christ is the Holy Temple of God. His Spirit dwells in this temple. God w...
ΔΙΑΛΟΓΙΣΜΌΣ (G1261) мысль, рассуждение. ΜΆΤΑΙΟΣ (G3152) пустой, тщетный, бесполезный. Выражает бесцельность, отсутствие задачи или завершения действия (Trench, Synonyms, 180-84). О Боге, уничтожающем...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Concludes With Spiritual Compensation (1 Corinthians 3:18-23) 18 Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a foo...
And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. From Psalms 94:11, Septuagint There it is of men; here it is "of the wise." Paul by inspiration states the class whose "tho...
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...
3:20 again, (h-2) See Psalms 94:11 ....
AND AGAIN] Psalms 94:11....
PARAPHRASE. 'Do not deceive yourselves; but if there be any of you priding himself on his worldly wisdom let him quickly unlearn it, that he may learn the true wisdom. (19, 20) For as Holy Scripture t...
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...
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...
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...
§ 11. THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD. Affectation of philosophy, “the wisdom of the world,” which P. has repudiated on behalf of the Gospel (1 Corinthians 1:2) was at the bottom of the Cor [606] troubles. T...
_a_ gives the reason why the philosophy of the times must be renounced by the aspirant to Christian wisdom: “For the wisdom of the world is folly with God” (= 1 Corinthians 1:20); and since it is foll...
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...
True Wisdom True wisdom, according to the apostle Paul, comes in learning to be a fool in the eyes of this world's wise (Acts 2:24). Pride in one's own intellectual abilities can keep him from learnin...
Let no man deceive himself. He next precautions them against themselves, and admonishes them to be upon their guard against curiosity, presumption, and self-love, and tells them to undervalue all othe...
This passage is taken from Psalms 94:11. It proclaims the emptiness of human wisdom, not now as to its result, but as to its very essence. The Hebrew and the LXX. say, “the thoughts of _man._ ” The ap...
“For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, ‘He that taketh the wise in their craftiness.' 20. And again, ‘The Lord knoweth the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain...
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...
(16) Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? (17) If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple...
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...
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...
AND AGAIN,.... Not in the same place, nor in the same book, but in the Psalms, in Psalms 94:11. This form of citing Scriptures answers to ועוד and moreover, used by the Jewish doctors when the matter...
And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. Ver. 20. _Of the wise_] Such as excel in natural gifts, that are the choicest and most picked men. The Psalmist saith only of...
_Let no man deceive himself_ Neither teacher, by propagating errors through pride of his own understanding; nor hearers, by a factious preferring of one above another for his gifts. _If any man among...
AGAIN; PSALMS 94:11....
Every Christian a temple of God:...
AND AGAIN, THE LORD KNOWETH THE THOUGHTS OF THE WISE THAT THEY ARE VAIN. This is not merely a warning lest any of the readers find themselves sharing the fate of such whose efforts will not stand the...
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...
AND AGAIN, THE LORD KNOWETH THE REASONINGS OF THE WISE THAT THEY ARE VAIN. 'and again'. Psalms 94:11 'THE LORD KNOWETH THE REASONINGS OF THE WISE THAT THEY ARE VAIN' -'The Lord sees how fruitless ar...
18-23 To have a high opinion of our own wisdom, is but to flatter ourselves; and self-flattery is the next step to self-deceit. The wisdom that wordly men esteem, is foolishness with God. How justly...
And again, it was said by the psalmist, PSALMS 94:11, that: THE LORD KNOWETH THE THOUGHTS OF MAN, THAT THEY ARE VANITY: man's counsels, imaginations, reasonings, they are all vanity; they propose to t...
and again [Psalms 94:11], _The Lord knoweth the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain_. [Alford interprets the passage thus: "If God uses the craftiness of the wise as a net to catch them in, suc...
1 Corinthians 3:20 and G2532 again G3825 LORD G2962 knows G1097 (G5719) thoughts G1261 wise G4680 that G3754
THE CHURCH IS GOD'S SACRED SANCTUARY FOR THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELLS IN THEM AND THEY ARE HID WITH CHRIST IN GOD. LET DIVISIVE TEACHERS THEREFORE BEWARE (3:16-23). Paul now applies his building analogy t...
‘For it is written.' Paul now establishes his position from Scripture. This is not just an afterthought. He has been leading up to this. What he has been saying is in fact what the Scripture, God's re...
1 Corinthians 3:20. AND AGAIN (Psalms 94:11), THE LORD KNOWETH THE REASONINGS OF THE WISE, THAT THEY ARE VAIN....
AND AGAIN (κα παλιν). Another confirmatory passage from Psalms 94:11.REASONINGS (διαλογισμους). More than _cogitationes_ (Vulgate), sometimes disputations (Philippians 2:14). Paul changes "men" o...
THE LORD Jehovah. (Psalms 94:11)....
17-18. _If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this worl...
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,...
AND ANOTHER SCRIPTURE SAYS. Paul paraphrases Psalms 94:11 Septuagint. "Man schemes, and God laughs....
_Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?_ THE TWO TEMPLES Two points comprehend the apostle’s teaching in this chapter. 1. The foundation of Christian...
_Let no man deceive himself._ If any man … seemeth to he wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may he wise. HOW TO AVOID SELF-DECEPTION I. The danger. 1. Is common. 2. Arises out of...
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 3:16.—A TEMPLE (R.V.) misses, or denies, the typology binding Old Testament and New Testament together here. A case where, as often (_e.g_. 1 Corinthians 11:20), one of...
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...
Colossians 2:8; Job 11:11; Job 11:12; Psalms 2:1; Psalms 94:11;...
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 they are but vain — Empty, foolish; they and all their thoughts. Psalms 94:11....