FIRST CORINTHIANS CHAPTER THREE _ OUTLINE AND COMMENTARY-MARK DUNAGAN_ I. OUTLINE OF CHAPTER THREE: I. Childish Estimates of Preachers and Teachers:. Proof of Spiritual Immaturity: 1 Corinthians 3:1 II. The Proper View of Paul and Apollos: 1 Corinthians 3:5-9 III. Warning To Teachers: 1 Corinth... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I, BRETHREN, COULD NOT SPEAK UNTO YOU AS UNTO SPIRITUAL, BUT AS UNTO CARNAL, AS UNTO BABES IN CHRIST. 'And I, brethren' -(1 Corinthians 2:1) 'SPIRITUAL' -4152. pneumatikos pnyoo-mat-ik-os'; from 4151; non-carnal, i.e. (humanly) ethereal (as opposed to gross), or (daemoniacally). spirit (concr... [ Continue Reading ]
1 CORINTHIANS 3:2. FED YOU WITH MILK, NOT WITH MEAT; FOR YE WERE NOT YET ABLE TO BEAR IT: NAY, NOT EVEN NOW ARE YE ABLE; 'milk, not with meat' -(Hebrews 5:12). 'He fed them milk because that's what their condition needed. He did want them to mature (Colossians 1:28) and hoped that by the time this... [ Continue Reading ]
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 to flesh, i.e. (by extension) bodily, temporal, or (by implication) animal, unregenerate: -carnal,... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WHEN ONE SAITH,I AM OF PAUL; AND ANOTHER,. AM OF APOLLOS; ARE YE NOT MEN? 'For when one saith' -'For whenever any one says' (pr. sbj. of recurring contingency); every such utterance shows you to be "men".' (Gr. Ex. N.T. p. 787) 'Each instance is. case in point and proof abundant of the strife.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT THEN IS APOLLOS? AND WHAT IS PAUL? MINISTERS THROUGH WHOM YE BELIEVED; AND EACH AS THE LORD GAVE TO HIM. 'What then is Apollos? and what is Paul?' -'In these verses Paul begins his discussion about the real place of people like himself. He doesn't ask "who is Apollos". He asks "What is Apollo... [ Continue Reading ]
1 CORINTHIANS 3:6. PLANTED, APOLLOS WATERED; BUT GOD GAVE THE INCREASE. 'Paul got the work of redemption going among the Corinthians and Apollos followed up on it and "watered it" (Acts 18:27). But in it all, the increase was given by God.' [Note:. McGuiggan p. 51] 'INCREASE' -'was causing the grow... [ Continue Reading ]
SO THEN NEITHER IS HE THAT PLANTETH ANYTHING, NEITHER HE THAT WATERETH; BUT GOD THAT GIVETH THE INCREASE. 'So then' -the application of Paul's analogy in verse 6. 'ANYTHING' -'deserves the credit' (Lam). 'The problem in Corinth is with perspective. They are viewing things from below, and as. resu... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW HE THAT PLANTETH AND HE THAT WATERETH ARE ONE: BUT EACH SHALL RECEIVE HIS OWN REWARD ACCORDING TO HIS OWN LABOR. 'are one' -'are working as. team, with the same aim' (Tay) 'These servants, Paul and Apollos, are not rivals. They should not be regarded as leaders of sects..their common interest... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WE ARE GOD'S FELLOW-WORKERS: YE ARE GOD'S HUSBANDRY, GOD'S BUILDING. 'God's fellow-workers' -'What an honor to be described as God's helper or co-worker!' (Willis p. 103) 'for we are God's men, working together.' (Beck) 'Which may mean that Paul and Apollos work together for God or work togeth... [ Continue Reading ]
ACCORDING TO THE GRACE OF GOD WHICH WAS GIVEN UNTO ME, AS. WISE MASTERBUILDER. LAID. FOUNDATION; AND ANOTHER BUILDETH THEREON. BUT LET EACH MAN TAKE HEED HOW HE BUILDETH THEREON. 'According to the grace of God which was given unto me' -'In His love God gave me. work to do.' (Beck) The unmerited fa... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR OTHER FOUNDATION CAN NO MAN LAY THAN THAT WHICH IS LAID, WHICH IS JESUS CHRIST. 'can no man lay' -God determined what the foundation of the church would be, and no one can change that fact. (Matthew 16:16; Matthew 16:18; Matthew 21:42; Ephesians 2:20; 1 Peter 2:6) 'Men can and do build on diff... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT IF ANY MAN BUILDETH ON THE FOUNDATION GOLD, SILVER, COSTLY STONES, WOOD, HAY, STUBBLE; 'any man' -The work of "anyone" coming after Paul was that of building on the foundation which he had already laid. 'After the interjected caution to let the foundation alone. Paul turns to the superstructur... [ Continue Reading ]
EACH MAN'S WORK SHALL BE MADE MANIFEST: FOR THE DAY SHALL DECLARE IT, BECAUSE IT IS REVEALED IN FIRE; AND THE FIRE ITSELF SHALL PROVE EACH MAN'S WORK OF WHAT SORT IT IS. 'made manifest' -'evident' (NASV) 'The character of each one's work will come to light.' (Wms); 'The quality of each man's work... [ Continue Reading ]
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 SHALL RECEIVE. REWARD' -Satisfaction and praise from God. (2 John 1:4; 3 John 1:4; 1 Thessalonians... [ Continue Reading ]
IF ANY MAN'S WORK SHALL BE BURNED, HE SHALL SUFFER LOSS: BUT HE HIMSELF SHALL BE SAVED; YET SO AS THROUGH FIRE. 'he shall suffer loss' -2210. zemioo dzay-mee-o'-o; from 2209; to injure, i.e. (reflexively or passively) to experience detriment: -be cast away, receive damage, lose, suffer loss. 'BUT... [ Continue Reading ]
KNOW YE NOT THAT YE ARE. TEMPLE OF GOD, AND THAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELLETH IN YOU? 'Know ye not' -'a touch. amazement at their ignorance.' (McGarvey p. 65) 'An expression of surprise arising out of their conduct.' (Alford p. 993) 'YE ARE. TEMPLE OF GOD' -i.e. the local church in Corinth. (1 Pete... [ Continue Reading ]
IF ANY MAN DESTROYETH THE TEMPLE OF GOD, HIM SHALL GOD DESTROY; FOR THE TEMPLE OF GOD IS HOLY, AND SUCH ARE YE. 'any man' -regardless of their status. 'DESTROYETH' -There are cases worst than the teacher who suffers the lost of those he converted (1 Corinthians 3:15). There is the man who had. ha... [ Continue Reading ]
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 some of them were guilty of doing it.' (Robertson p. 99) 'By thinking himself wise enough to amend or m... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD IS FOOLISHNESS WITH GOD. FOR IT IS WRITTEN, HE THAT TAKETH THE WISE IN THEIR CRAFTINESS: 'is foolishness with God' -'For this world's cleverness is stupidity to God.' (Phi) Especially the "wisdom" that the world uses in the attempt to solve it's own problems and to del... [ Continue Reading ]
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 are the deliberations of the wise.' (TCNT) 'What the Lord sees is that all their carefully thought-ou... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE LET NO ONE GLORY IN MEN. FOR ALL THINGS ARE YOURS; 'Wherefore' -'What is the proper conclusion to be drawn from all this?' 'LET NO ONE GLORY IN MEN' -'to glory in men, means to boast about them, their qualities, teachings, and wisdom in any measure or degree apart from Christ and the wi... [ Continue Reading ]
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 APOLLOS, OR CEPHAS' -'how can the Corinthians say, "I am of Paul, or Apollos"? That is too narrow,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND YE ARE CHRIST'S; AND CHRIST IS GOD'S. 'ye are Christ's' -'Here is the true slogan which abolishes all others...'You' means all of the Corinthians as one body. This wipes out the "I" in the old slogans, one individual over against the others..' (Lenski p. 158) 'It is not that "all things are y... [ Continue Reading ]