Paul, Apollos, and Peter. See 1 Corinthians 3:5. This world is the servant of God's people (1 Corinthians 6:12). Life and death. Our time on earth, and even death, becomes our servant in Christ. The present and the future stretches it out over all possible times. All of these. Paul jubilantly repeats the thought that the totality of Creation is our blessing in Christ!!! See Romans 8:28.
Verse 22. _WHETHER PAUL, OR APOLLOS_] As if he had said: God designs to help you by all _things_ and _persons_; every teacher sent from him will become a blessing to you, if you abide faithful to you...
WHETHER PAUL, OR APOLLOS - The sense of this is clear. Whatever advantages result from the piety, self-denials, and labors of Paul, Apollos, or any other preacher of the gospel, are yours - you have t...
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...
LIFE. Greek. _zoe._ App-170. PRESENT. Greek. _enistemi._ See Romans 8:38. TO COME. about to be. Greek. _mello_....
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...
CHRISTIAN MINISTERS ONLY LABOURERS OF MORE OR LESS EFFICIENCY, THE SUBSTANTIAL WORK BEING GOD’S...
ΚΌΣΜΟΣ. The Divine order of things in the visible universe, though at present that order is thrown into confusion by man’s sin. Cf. 1 John 2:16; 1 John 5:19. ΖΩΉ. Life in its higher and diviner aspect...
_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...
ΕΝΕΣΤΏΤΑ _perf. act. part. от_ ΈΝΊΣΤΗΜΙ (G1764) присутствовать. Part, в роли _subst._ ΜΈΛΛΟΝΤΑ _praes. act. part. от_ ΜΈΛΛΩ (G3195) собираться. Part, в роли _subst._, "грядущие вещи" ΠΆΝΤΑ ΎΜΏΝ (G39...
DISCOURSE: 1949 THE CHRISTIAN’S PRIVILEGES 1 Corinthians 3:21. _Let no man glory in men. For all things are your’s; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things pre...
ALL THINGS ARE YOURS, &C.— How magnificently are the happy privileges of Christians, through Christ, set forth in this noble exultation! First, here is a full and vehement enumeration of particulars;...
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...
Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; Enumeration of the "all things." The teachers in whom they gloried he puts...
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...
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...
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...
Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the (12) world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; (12) He passes from the persons to the things themselves, that his argum...
All things are yours. Are ordained for your good. For this end, I, Apollo, and Cephas have been sent to promote your salvation. The world and all things in it are allowed you, are yours, that by makin...
“Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come, all are yours; 23. and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.” In the front are placed the n...
(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...
22._All things are yours. _He proceeds to show what place and station teachers should occupy (201) — such as not to detract in any degree from the authority of Christ, the one Master. As therefore Chr...
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...
WHETHER PAUL, OR APOLLOS, OR CEPHAS,.... These are particularly named, because their disputes were chiefly about them; but what is said of them is true of all other, and all the ministers of Christ, t...
Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; Ver. 22. _All are yours_] Though not in possession, yet in use, or by way of...
_Therefore_ Upon the whole, considering all that has been advanced, and especially considering in what view the great God regards these things which we are so ready to value ourselves upon; _let no ma...
WHETHER PAUL, OR APOLLOS, OR CEPHAS, OR THE WORLD, OR LIFE, OR DEATH, OR THINGS PRESENT, OR THINGS TO COME; ALL ARE YOURS;...
The conclusion:...
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...
WHETHER PAUL, OR APOLLOS, OR CEPHAS, OR THE WORLD, OR LIFE, OR DEATH, OR THINGS PRESENT, OR THINGS TO COME; ALL ARE YOURS; 'whether' -these are the things that "belong" to the Corinthians. 'PAUL, OR...
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...
Ver. 22,23. Here are in these two verses three things asserted: 1. The believer's title to ALL THINGS. 2. The specialty of their title. 3. The force of the apostle's argument from hence, why they sh...
whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world [Matthew 5:5; Mark 10:29-30], _or life_ [with its possibilities], _or death_ [with its gain-- Philippians 1:21], _or things present, or things to come...
Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh The apostle, however, in his epistle says, "Whether it be the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours: "[456]...
1 Corinthians 3:22 whether G1535 Paul G3972 or G1535 Apollos G625 or G1535 Cephas G2786 or G1535 world G2889
‘Wherefore let no one glory in men. For all things are yours; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours, and you are Chr...
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...
1 Corinthians 3:22. WHETHER PAUL, OR APOLLOS, OR CEPHAS including all the characteristics of each; for as Christ's donation to the Church, each and all are its common property. There is probably as mu...
YOURS (υμων). Predicate genitive, belong to you. All the words in this verse and 1 Corinthians 3:23 are anarthrous, though not indefinite, but definite. The English reproduces them all properly with...
WORLD Greek, "kosmos", means "earth". (Romans 8:19)....
1 Corinthians 3:21 Consider: I. How Christ's servants are men's lords. "All things are yours: Paul, Apollos, Cephas." These three teachers were all lights kindled at the central light, and therefore...
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,...
_Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas._ THE GOSPEL MINISTRY AS A PROPERTY I would say to the Church, in relation to this property-- I. Appreciate it. What on earth so valuable as a true gospel minis...
_Therefore let no man glory in man._ THAT IT IS A GREAT SIN TO GLORY IN MEN This sin is not often preached upon, yet no question political and civil idolatry, making men as gods to us, hath done a g...
_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...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 3:21 LET NO ONE BOAST IN MEN. Arrogance causes division in Corinth (1 Corinthians 4:6,...
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 3:21.—See Homiletic Analysis. Note the unexpected turn of phrase; not “Christ is yours.” “Rise to the plane of His life and your relations to Him, then you are a posses...
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 3:5; 1 Corinthians 9:19; 2 Corinthians 4:5; Ephesians 4:11;...
Things present [ε ν ε σ τ ω τ α]. See on Romans 8:38....
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...
Whether Paul or Apollos, or Cephas — We are all equally yours, to serve you for Christ's sake. Or the world — This leap from Peter to the world greatly enlarges the thought, and argues a kind of impat...