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Verse 1 Corinthians 3:7. _SO THEN, NEITHER IS HE THAT PLANTETH ANY
THING_] God alone should have all the glory, as the _seed_ is his, the
_ground_ is his, the _labourers_ are his, and the _produce_ al...
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ANYTHING - This is to he taken comparatively. They are nothing in
comparison with God! Their agency is of no importance compared with
his: see the note at 1 Corinthians 1:28. It does not mean that the...
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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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And I, brothers, could not talk to you as I would to spiritual men,
but I had to talk to you as to those who had not yet got beyond merely
human things, as to infants in Christ. I gave you milk to dri...
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THE SUPREME IMPORTANCE OF GOD (1 Corinthians 3:1-9)...
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NEITHER... NEITHER. Greek. _oute... oute._
ANY THING. Greek. neut. of _tis_. App-123. Compare 2 Corinthians
3:5.Galatians 1:2; Galatians 1:6;...
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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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_THE PREACHERS ARE SERVANTS 1 CORINTHIANS 3:5-10:_ Apollos and Paul
were merely servants or ministers that had helped these brethren have
faith. Paul had no desire for preachers to receive special hon...
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DISCOURSE: 1944
UNDUE PARTIALITY TO MINISTERS REPROVED
1 Corinthians 3:5. _Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but
ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? I
have planted,...
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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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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
1 Corinthians 3:5-9 Builders: All Christians are workers in God's
fieldbuilders on God's building. What are apostles? Workers, like
every other Christian. They may have gifts from Go...
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So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that
watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
NEITHER IS HE THAT ... ANY THING ... BUT GOD - namely, is all in all.
"God" is emphaticall...
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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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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. 'Te yourselves, brethren, are an illustration of what I
say. (2) I have treated you as beginners and given you elementary
Christian teaching, for hitherto you have been unfit for any other...
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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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ANY THING — _i.e.,_ “anything worth mentioning” (1 Corinthians
10:19; Galatians 2:6; Galatians 6:3)....
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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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§ 9. GOD'S RIGHTS IN THE CHURCH. One idea runs through this chapter
and into the next, that of _God's_ Church, _God's_ temple at Corinth,
in whose construction so many various builders are engaged (1...
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The grammatical obj [500] of this sentence has been given by the
foregoing context, _viz._, the Cor [501] Church of believers (_cf._ 1
Corinthians 4:15). φυτεύω Paul uses besides only in 1
Corinthians...
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PROSPERITY COMES FROM GOD
1 Corinthians 3:1
In all our relations with our fellow-men, Christ's followers must
realize their obligations as members of one great family, with one
God. A man may be _in...
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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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Increase Comes From God
Paul wanted to know what it was about Apollos and himself that could
cause division. They were both "ministers," which is the same word
translated "deacons" in Acts 6:2 and me...
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That planteth you by your first conversion. Apollo watered you by
preaching the same truths. --- He that planteth and watered, are one,
aim at one and the same end. (Witham) --- According to his own l...
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What harvest would have sprung up from the labour of the two workers
without the life which God alone could give? What then are those
workers?
There is ordinarily understood as the predicate of the la...
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“I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase; 7. So then
neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth, but
God that giveth the increase.” The asyndeton between 1 Corinthian...
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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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7._Neither is he that planteth anything _It appears, nevertheless,
from what has been already said, that their labor is of some
importance. We must observe, therefore, why it is that Paul thus
depreci...
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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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SO THEN, NEITHER IS HE THAT PLANTETH ANYTHING,.... Not that he is the
happy instrument of beginning the good work:
NEITHER HE THAT WATERETH; who is the means of carrying of it on: not
that they are s...
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So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that
watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
Ver. 7. _So then neither is he, &c._] This made Cyril to conclude his
preface to his catechi...
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_For while one saith, I am of Paul_ I am one of Paul's disciples,
admiring his sublime sentiments, and being greatly edified by his
instructive discourses: _and another, I am of Apollos_ I give the
pr...
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HE THAT PLANTETH-HE THAT WATERETH; preachers of the gospel are not the
cause, but, under God, the instruments of their success....
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All ministers of Christ of equal rank:...
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SO, THEN, NEITHER IS HE THAT PLANTS ANYTHING, NEITHER HE THAT WATERS,
BUT GOD, THAT GIVETH THE INCREASE....
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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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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' ...
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5-9 The ministers about whom the Corinthians contended, were only
instruments used by God. We should not put ministers into the place of
God. He that planteth and he that watereth are one, employed b...
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So that, look as it is in earthly plantations, God hath the greatest
influence upon the growth and fruitfulness of the plant, and the
husbandman or gardener is nothing in comparison with God, who hath...
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So then neither is he that planteth anything [in himself, without
Christ-- 2 Corinthians 12:12; John 15:4-5; John 15:16], _neither he
that watereth; but God that giveth the increase_. [Paul brought th...
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV
but it is one God who bestows things suitable upon both-seed to the
sower, but bread for the reaper to eat. Just as it is one that
planteth, and another who watereth...
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1 Corinthians 3:7 So G5620 neither G3777 plants G5452 (G5723) is G2076
(G5748) anything G5100 nor G3777 wat
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‘So then neither is he who plants anything, nor he who waters, but
God who gives the increase.'
So while we must properly appreciate what ministers do, if they do it
humbly and faithfully, we must rem...
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1 Corinthians 3:7. SO THEN NEITHER IS HE THAT PLANTETH ANYTHING,
NEITHER HE THAT WATERETH; BUT GOD THAT GIVETH THE INCREASE....
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SO THEN NEITHER--NEITHER--BUT
(Hωστε ουτε--ουτε--αλλ'). Paul applies his logic
relentlessly to the facts. He had askedWHAT
(τ) is Apollos or Paul (verse 1 Corinthians 3:5). The answer is
here.NEI...
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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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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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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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REALLY DO NOT MATTER. The power and message come from God. The ones
who proclaim it are only "common clay pots" (2 Corinthians 4:7). IT IS
GOD WHO MATTERS. He is the only important one, because he act...
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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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_So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that
watereth, but God giveth the increase._ The husbandman who plants and
waters does hardly anything when compared with God; for he works fr...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
1 Corinthians 3:5.—Better reading “_what?_” not “_who?_”
Also “_through_.” Not, “As the Lord gave _to every man of you_
the type of teacher he needed”; but, “As the Lord allotted _to...
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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 13:2; 2 Corinthians 12:9; Daniel 4:35; Galatians 6:3;...
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Anything. The devoted Angelique Arnauld, of Port Royal, when her
sister condoled with her on the absence of her confessor, Singlier,
replied : "I have never put a man in God's place. He can have only...
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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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God that giveth the increase — Is all in all: without him neither
planting nor watering avails....
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The sense is, "Neither he that planteth is to be esteemed as any
thing, nor he that watereth as any thing, but the glory of all must be
ascribed to God that giveth the increase:" yet must we understan...