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Verse 1 Corinthians 3:15. _IF ANY MAN'S WORK SHALL BE BURNED, HE
SHALL SUFFER_ _LOSS_] If he have preached the necessity of
incorporating the _law_ with the _Gospel_, or proclaimed as a doctrine
of G...
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IF ANY MAN’S WORK SHALL BE BURNED - If it shall not be found to hear
the test of the investigation of that Day - as a cottage of wood, hay,
and stubble would not bear the application of fire. If his d...
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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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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...
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According to the grace of God that was given to me, I laid the
foundation like a skilled master-builder, but another builds upon it.
Let each see to it how he builds upon it; for no one can lay any ot...
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THE SUPREME IMPORTANCE OF GOD (1 Corinthians 3:1-9)...
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BURNED. burned up. Greek. _katakaio._ Compare Matthew 3:12; Luke 3:17;
2 Peter 3:10.
SUFFER LOSS. Greek. _zemioo._ Elsewhere, Matthew
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_yet so as by fire_ The absolute equality of all in the world to come
is no part of St Paul's system. -One star differeth from another star
in glory" (ch. 1 Corinthians 15:41). But the history of the...
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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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ΚΑΤΑΚΑΉΣΕΤΑΙ. Shall be burned UP.
ΟὝΤΩΣ ΔῈ ὩΣ ΔΙᾺ ΠΥΡΟΣ. The absolute equality of
all in the world to come is no part of St Paul’s system. ‘One star
differeth from another star in glory’ (ch. 1 Corint...
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CHRISTIAN MINISTERS ONLY LABOURERS OF MORE OR LESS EFFICIENCY, THE
SUBSTANTIAL WORK BEING GOD’S...
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_THE FOUNDATION IS CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS 3:11-15:_ Christ is the
foundation, and we are to be careful that we build in a scriptural and
spiritual way on Him. He is the only foundation upon which you ca...
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DISCOURSE: 1946
INSTRUCTIONS TO THOSE WHO BUILD UPON THE TRUE FOUNDATION
1 Corinthians 3:12. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold,
silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; every man’s wo...
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NOW IF ANY MAN BUILD, &C.— "Though no man who pretends to be a
preacher of the Gospel can build upon any other foundation than that
of Jesus Christ, yet you ought not to cry up your new instructor, wh...
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APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS
_The Church is the Temple of God_ (10-17)
_Text_
1 Corinthians 3:10-17. According to the grace of God which was given
unto me, as a wise masterbuilder I laid a foundation; and a...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
SECTION 2
Consists In Spiritual Work For God (1 Corinthians 3:5-17)
5 What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you
believed, as the Lord assigned to each. 6I plant...
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If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he
himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
IF ... BE BURNT - If any man's work consist of such materials as the
fire will destroy....
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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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3:15 fire. (b-24) The addition of the article gives the right sense.
'saved by fire' may mean that the fire was a means of safety, whereas
'through the fire' is in spite of it, or going through the da...
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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. 'Let me remind you that by the favour of God I was the
founder of your Church. Those who followed me took up my work. (11)
The foundation I laid was faith in Jesus Christ. (12) No one can...
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SAVED] because of his own Christian life. YET SO AS BY FIRE] As the
builder may escape with his life while the flames destroy the building
on which he is engaged, so the Christian teacher may be saved...
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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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SO AS. — These words remind us that the whole passage, and
especially the reference to fire, is to be regarded as metaphorical,
and not to be understood in a literal and physical sense. Forgetting
thi...
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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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The opp [570] issues of the fiery assay are stated under parl [571]
hypotheses: εἴ τινος τὸ ἔργον … μενεῖ …
εἴ τινος τὸ ἔργον κατακαήσεται, “If any
one's work shall abide … shall be burned up”. The do...
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§ 10. THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE HUMAN BUILDERS. After the long
digression on Wisdom (1 Corinthians 1:17 to 1 Corinthians 3:2),
occasioned by the Hellenic misconception of the Gospel underlying the
Cor...
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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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Testing the Building Materials
McGarvey suggests the building materials Paul mentioned were very
familiar to the brethren at Corinth. The first three building
materials, gold, silver and precious ston...
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If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but (8) he
himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
(8) He does not take away the hope of salvation from the unskilful and
foolish builders,...
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Now if any man build, &c. This is a hard place, says St. Augustine,
lib. de fid. & Oper. chap. xvi. tom. 6. p. 180. The interpreters are
divided, as to the explication and application of this metaphor...
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[BIBLIOGRAPHY]
In the Council of Florence, which began at Ferrara an. [in the year]
1438. The Greeks at the very first declared they admitted a third
place, where souls were punished for a time, which...
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To understand the picture which the apostle draws of the opposite
result, we must undoubtedly suppose the workmen occupying the portion
of the building which has been committed to them, and to which t...
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“If any man's work shall abide which he hath built thereupon, he
shall receive the reward; 15. if any man's work shall be burned, he
shall suffer loss [of reward]; but he himself shall be saved, yet s...
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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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(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...
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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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15._If any man’s work shall be burned. _It is as though he had said:
Let no man flatter himself on the ground that, in the opinion of men,
he is reckoned among the most eminent _master-builders_, for...
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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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IF ANY MAN'S WORK SHALL BE BURNT,.... If any minister's doctrine he
has preached shall be destroyed and disappear, shall be disapproved
of, and rejected by the churches, not being able, to bear the li...
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If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he
himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
Ver. 15. _He shall suffer loss_] Of his work (his laborious loss of
time) and of some part o...
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_If any maws work abide which he hath built_, &c. If the
superstructure which any minister of Christ raises on the true
foundation, if the doctrines which he preaches can bear the test by
which they s...
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IF ANY MAN'S WORK SHALL BE BURNED; if it be condemned as wrong, though
he himself believed and is pardoned, HE SHALL SUFFER LOSS; he shall
lose his labor, and much of the good which might have resulte...
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The building itself:...
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IF ANY MAN'S WORK SHALL BE BURNED, HE SHALL SUFFER LOSS; BUT HE
HIMSELF SHALL BE SAVED, YET SO AS BY FIRE.
Paul here treats of the superstructure which is erected upon the one
foundation, and distingu...
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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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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. (reflex...
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10-15 The apostle was a wise master-builder; but the grace of God
made him such. Spiritual pride is abominable; it is using the greatest
favours of God, to feed our own vanity, and make idols of ours...
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But if his work do not abide, if it shall appear upon the more clear
and bright shining out of the truth of the gospel, that though he hath
held the foundation right, yet he hath built upon it wood, h...
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If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss [if a
teacher's disciples endure the test of judgment, he shall receive a
reward, of which his converts will be at least a part (1 Thessalonians...
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1 Corinthians 3:15 anyones G1536 work G2041 burned G2618 (G5691) loss
G2210 (G5701) but G1161 himself G846
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‘If any man's work shall remain which he has built on it, he shall
receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned he shall suffer
loss. But he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.'
The...
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THAT IS WHY THESE TEACHERS ARE UNITED IN THEIR WORK KNOWING THEY MUST
ACCOUNT TO GOD FOR THEIR MINISTRY (3:8-15).
Paul now puts all these teachers, including himself, firmly in their
place. They are b...
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1 Corinthians 3:15. IF ANY MAN'S WORK SHALL BE BURNED as consisting of
the inflammable “wood, hay, stubble,”
HE SHALL SUFFER LOSS loss of his time, his pains, his hopes, his
credit; his whole minist...
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SHALL BE BURNED
(κατακαησετα). First-class condition again, assumed as
true. Second future (late form) passive indicative of
κατακαιω, to burn down, old verb. Note perfective use of
preposition κατ...
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SAVED
(_ See Scofield) - (Romans 1:16). _...
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1 Corinthians 3:14
Two Builders on One Foundation.
I. Consider, first, the two builders and their work. The original
application of these words is distinctly to Christian teachers. The
wood, hay, and...
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1 Corinthians 3:12
This is an awful passage; one whose import no man to whom has been
committed the care of souls can realise without trembling. But it has
a lesson for all laity as well as clergy on...
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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._
The church at Corinth consisted of persons of large education and
great abilities....
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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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IS BURNT UP. If the disciples he has taught are unfaithful when
persecuted, he will lose his reward (see 1 Corinthians 3:14). BUT HE
HIMSELF WILL BE SAVED. This seems to imply the false teacher was
si...
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_Now if any man build on this foundation gold, silver, precious
stones, wood, hay, stubble._
CLASSIC BUILDINGS AND THEIR MATERIALS
In such cities as Ephesus, where this letter was written, or Corinth...
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_According to the grace of God … as a wise master builder, I have
laid the foundation … But let every man take heed how he buildeth
thereupon._
ALL OF GRACE
Now when we say a godly man acknowledgeth...
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1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 3:14 REWARD.... LOSS... SAVED...
AS THROUGH FIRE. See also v. 1 Corinthians 3:8 and...
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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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_But he himself shall be saved, yet so as by fire._ Isidorius Clarius
wrongly applies this to the "foundation." Grammatically it is
possible, but logically not, for it does not agree with the context....
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
1 Corinthians 3:10.—WAS GIVEN … I LAID, _q.d_. “when I was at
Corinth.” “_A_ foundation,” “which I subjectively laid in my
teaching at Corinth, because God had already laid the same o...
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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 3:12; 1 Corinthians 3:13; 1 Peter 4:18; 2 John 1:8;...
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Shall suffer loss [ζ η μ ι ω θ η σ ε τ α ι]. He shall be
mulcted, not punished. See on Matthew 16:26; Luke 9:25.
He himself shall be saved. Compare Dante of Constantine : "The next
who follows, with t...
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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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He shall suffer loss — The loss of that peculiar degree of glory....
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Does this passage support the Roman Catholic view of purgatory?
PROBLEM: Roman Catholics appeal to this passage in support of the
doctrine of temporary punishment for those not good enough to go
direc...