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Verse 18. _IF ANY MAN AMONG YOU SEEMETH TO BE WISE_] Ει τις
δοκει σοφος ειναι· _If any pretend or affect to be
wise_. This seems to refer to some _individual_ in the Church of
Corinth, who had been v...
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LET NO MAN DECEIVE HIMSELF - The apostle here proceeds to make a
practical application of the truths which he had stated, and to urge
on them humility, and to endeavor to repress the broils and
conten...
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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
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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...
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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...
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THE SUPREME IMPORTANCE OF GOD (1 Corinthians 3:1-9)...
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NO MAN. no one. Greek. _medeis._
DECEIVE. Greek. _exapatao._ See Romans 7:11.
WORLD. App-129.
FOOL. Greek. _moros,_ as in 1 Corinthians 1:25; 1 Corinthians 1:27
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_let him become a fool, that he may be wise_ Let him account himself a
fool, put himself on a level with the ignorant and unintellectual, set
no store by his worldly knowledge or intellectual powers,...
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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...
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CHRISTIAN MINISTERS ONLY LABOURERS OF MORE OR LESS EFFICIENCY, THE
SUBSTANTIAL WORK BEING GOD’S...
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ΑἸΩ͂ΝΙ. See note on 1 Corinthians 1:20.
ΜΩΡῸΣ ΓΕΝΈΣΘΩ. Let him account himself a fool, put
himself on a level with the ignorant and unintellectual, set no store
by his worldly knowledge or intellectu...
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_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...
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ΈΞΑΠΑΤΆΤΩ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΈΞΑΠΑΤΆΩ (G1818)
обманывать. Предложное сочетание
перфектно: "обманывать и достигать в
этом успеха" (МН, 311). О _praes. imper._ в отр.
_см._ Romans 6:12.
ΕΊ (G1487)...
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DISCOURSE: 1948
THE MEANS OF ATTAINING TRUE WISDOM
1 Corinthians 3:18. _Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you
seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may
be wise_....
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LET NO MAN DECEIVE HIMSELF.— It was not necessary for St. Paul,
writing to the Corinthians, who knew the matter of fact, to
particularize what it was wherein the craftiness of the person here
mentione...
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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...
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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise
in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
SEEMETH - i:e., is, and is regarded by himself and others.
WISE IN...
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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...
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3:18 deceive (e-4) A strong word. See Note at 1 Timothy 2:14 . be
(f-12) Or 'has the appearance of being.'...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Passing from the difference between the work of one teacher and that
of another, which has occupied him since 1 Corinthians 3:5, the
Apostle now returns to the subject from which he branched off there...
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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...
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Accordingly, the Μηδεὶς ἑαυτὸν ἐξαπατάτω
looks forward, not backward: one may “deceive himself” about the
mixing of man's wisdom with God's, but scarcely about the truth of the
threatening of 1 Corint...
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§ 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(10) Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be
wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
(10) He concludes by the opposite, that they profess pure wisdom in...
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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...
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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...
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“Let no man deceive himself; if any man thinketh that he is wise
among you, let him become a fool in this world, that he may become
wise.”
Again an asyndeton, testifying to the emotion which fills th...
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(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...
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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...
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18._Let no man deceive himself _Here he puts his finger upon the true
sore, as the whole mischief originated in this — that they were wise
in their own conceit. Hence he exhorts them not to deceive th...
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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...
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LET NO MAN DECEIVE HIMSELF,.... With vain notions of serving God and
religion, and of doing the churches good by his carnal and worldly
wisdom, and with false hopes of escaping the vengeance of God fo...
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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in
this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
Ver. 18. _Let no man deceive himself_] _Bis desipit, qui sibi sapit.
Con...
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_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...
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DECEIVE HIMSELF; by a vain idea of his superior wisdom. Addressed
especially to those who sought preeminence as leaders.
SEEMETH TO BE WISE; seemeth in his own eyes, thinks himself wise.
BECOME A FOO...
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LET NO MAN DECEIVE HIMSELF. IF ANY MAN AMONG YOU SEEMETH TO BE WISE IN
THIS WORLD, LET HIM BECOME A FOOL THAT HE MAY BE WISE....
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Every Christian a temple of God:...
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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...
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LET NO MAN DECEIVE HIMSELF. IF ANY MAN THINKETH THAT HE IS WISE AMONG
YOU IN THIS WORLD, LET HIM BECOME. FOOL, THAT HE MAY BECOME WISE.
'Let no man deceive himself' -'A warning that implied that som...
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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...
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LET NOT MAN DECEIVE HIMSELF: there are some that, with their eloquence
and flourishes of words, or with their philosophical notions and
reasonings, _\which, COLOSSIANS 2:8, the apostle calls vain dece...
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Let no man deceive himself. [By thinking himself wise enough to amend
or modify God's truth.] _If any man thinketh that he is wise among you
in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wi...
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Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics
produced for itching ears of the spirit of this world's wisdom: this
the Lord called "foolishness,"[63]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V
If you threate...
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1 Corinthians 3:18 Let G1818 one G3367 deceive G1818 (G5720) himself
G1438 anyone G1536 among G1722 you G521
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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...
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‘Let no man deceive himself. If any man thinks that he is wise among
you in this world (or ‘age'), let him become a fool that he may
become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.'...
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1 Corinthians 3:18. LET NO MAN DECEIVE HIMSELF. IF ANY MAN AMONG YOU
THINKETH THAT HE IS WISE IN THIS WORLD in the world's sense of wisdom,
LET HIM BECOME A FOOL (as to such wisdom), THAT HE MAY BE (t...
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LET NO MAN DECEIVE HIMSELF
(Μηδεις εαυτον εξαπατω). A warning that implied
that some of them were guilty of doing it (μη and the present
imperative). Excited partisans can easily excite themselves...
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1 Corinthians 3:18
The Self-wise Inquirer.
Let us inquire what is the vain wisdom of the world, and then we shall
the better see how it leads men astray.
I. Now, when it is said that to trust our ow...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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_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...
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_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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 1:18; 1 Corinthians 15:33; 1 Corinthians 4:10; 1
Corinthians 6:9;...
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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...
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Let him become a fool in this world — Such as the world accounts so.
That he may become wise — In God's account....
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Observe here, 1. word of caution: LET NO MAN DECEIVE HIMSELF.
Self-deceit is the ground of all other deceit. Whatever deceit is
abroad, it begins at home.. deceitful heart will not spare so much as
it...