Ye are a temple of God
(ναος θεου εστε). Literally, a sanctuary (ναος, not ιερον, the sacred enclosure, but the holy place and the most holy place) of God. The same picture of building as in verse 1 Corinthians 3:9 (οικοδομη), only here the sanctuary itself.Dwelleth in you
(εν υμιν οικε). The Spirit of God makes his home (οικε) in us, not in temples made with hands (Acts 7:48; Acts 17:24).
Verse 1 Corinthians 3:16. _YE ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD_] The apostle resumes here what he had asserted in 1 Corinthians 3:9: _Ye are God's building_. As the whole congregation of Israel were formerly co...
KNOW YE NOT ... - The apostle here carries forward and completes the figure which he had commenced in regard to Christians. His illustrations had been drawn from architecture; and he here proceeds to...
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
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...
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...
THE SUPREME IMPORTANCE OF GOD (1 Corinthians 3:1-9)...
KNOW YE NOT. This expression occurs twelve times in Paul's epistles. Elsewhere, 1 Corinthians 5:6; 1 Corinthians 6:2; 1 Corinthians 6:3;...
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...
_Know ye not that ye are the temple of God_ " Ναός, _sanctuary_, more sacred than ἱερόν; the Holy Place in which God dwells, ναίει." Wordsworth. Another view of the subject is now abruptly introduced....
CHRISTIAN MINISTERS ONLY LABOURERS OF MORE OR LESS EFFICIENCY, THE SUBSTANTIAL WORK BEING GOD’S...
ΟΥ̓Κ ΟἼΔΑΤΕ ὍΤΙ ΝΑῸΣ ΘΕΟΥ͂ ἘΣΤΈ; ‘Ναός, _sanctuary_, more sacred than ἱερόν; the Holy Place in which God dwells, ναίει.’ Wordsworth. Another view of the subject is now abruptly introduced. The figure...
_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...
ΟΪΔΑΤΕ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΟΙΔΑ (G1492) знать. Def. perf. со _знач. praes._ Отрицание вводит вопрос, на который ожидается утвердительный ответ, ΝΑΌΣ (G3485) храм, место обитания божества, внутреннее...
DISCOURSE: 1947 THE DANGER OF DEFILING GOD’S TEMPLE 1 Corinthians 3:16. _Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, hi...
KNOW YE NOT THAT YE ARE THE TEMPLE, &C.— "I told you that _ye are God's building,_ 1 Corinthians 3:9. I now observe more than that;—_Ye are the temple of God,_ in which his Spirit dwells." Many of the...
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...
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...
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? KNOW YE NOT - It is no new thing I tell you, in calling you "God's building;" ye are the noblest of buildings...
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...
3:16 temple (c-9) _ Naos_ . the house itself -- the shrine....
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...
THE TEMPLE OF GOD. — From the thought of grand edifices in general the Apostle goes on to the particular case of a building which is not only splendid but “holy” — the temple of God — thus reminding t...
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...
However poor his work, the workman of 1 Corinthians 3:15 built upon Christ. There are cases worse than his, and to the εἴ τινος τὸ ἔργον alternatives of 1 Corinthians 3:14 f. the Ap. has a third to ad...
§ 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...
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...
Beware of Defiling God's Temple In 1 Corinthians 3:9, Paul described the church at Corinth as God's building (Hebrews 3:6; 1 Peter 2:5). The church is God's temple and the Spirit's dwelling place on e...
(9) Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? (9) Continuing still in the metaphor of building, he teaches us that this ambition is not only vain, but al...
Know you not. After the apostle had described the builders who are employed in the spiritual edifice, he proceeds to speak of the duties of those who are the living temples of Christ. As for you, may...
“Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 17. If any man destroy the temple of God, him will God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are...
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...
(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...
_THE TEMPLE OF GOD_ ‘Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and than the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?’ 1 Corinthians 3:16 Not only does the Holy Ghost come to convict of sin, not only does He...
16._Know ye not_, _etc. _Having admonished the teachers as to their duty, he now addresses himself to the pupils — that they, too, may take heed to themselves. To the teachers he had said, “You are th...
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...
KNOW YE NOT THAT YE ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD,.... The apostle having spoken of the saints as God's building, of himself as a wise master builder, of Christ as the only foundation, and of various doctrine...
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and _that_ the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? Ver. 16. _Ye are the temple of God_] Not God's building only, as1 Corinthians 3:9, but his temple. A mud wall...
_Know ye not_, &c. As if he had said, You should also lake heed what doctrine you deliver, lest by teaching what is false, unimportant, or improper to be taught, you should defile or destroy the templ...
YE ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD; elsewhere the apostle calls the bodies of individual believers the temples of the Holy Ghost, chap 1 Corinthians 6:19. Compare Isaiah 57:15; Isaiah 66:1-2. But here, as in...
KNOW YE NOT THAT YE ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD, AND THAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELLETH IN YOU?...
Every Christian a temple of God:...
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...
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...
16,17 From other parts of the epistle, it appears that the false teachers among the Corinthians taught unholy doctrines. Such teaching tended to corrupt, to pollute, and destroy the building, which s...
The apostle, 1 CORINTHIANS 3:9, had called the church of Corinth, and the particular members of it, _God's building; _ after this he had enlarged in a discourse concerning the builders, and the founda...
Know ye no t [a touch of amazement at their ignorance] _that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?_ [In verse 9 he had called them God's building; he now reminds them of...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Philadelphians as the temples of God;[63] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V Whence also he says, that this handiwork is "the temple of God," thus declaring: "Know ye not t...
1 Corinthians 3:16 not G3756 know G1492 (G5758) that G3754 are G2075 (G5748) temple G3485 God...
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...
‘Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and you are that...
1 Corinthians 3:16. KNOW YE NOT THAT YE ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD? a sudden transition, apparently, from the _teachers_ to the _taught;_ yet this is more in appearance than reality. For the transition is...
1 Corinthians 3:16 I. When the fall of man broke down the altar within him and scattered the fire, and his vision of God became dim, it did not follow that the Holy Spirit withdrew from the world beca...
1 Corinthians 3:16 Consider the Offices of the Holy Ghost. I. It is the office of the Holy Ghost to effect such a change that the sinner may be described as born again and made a new man in Christ Je...
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...
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....
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,...
YOU ARE GOD'S TEMPLE. You = the church of God in Corinth. GOD'S SPIRIT LIVES IN YOU. See Ephesians 2:22....
_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 3:16 On the TEMPLE and God’s dwelling, see 1 Kings 6:1....
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...
_Know ye not that ye are the temple of God?_ This is a return to the image of ver. 9: "Ye are God's building," and therefore not a heathen temple, but the temple of God, in which by faith, grace, char...
_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...
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 5:6; 1 Corinthians 6:16; 1 Corinthians 6:19; 1 Corinthians 6:2;...
Temple [ν α ο ς]. Or sanctuary. See on Matthew 4:5. Compare Ephesians 2:21; 2 Corinthians 6:16....
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...
Ye — All Christians. Are the temple of God — The most noble kind of building, 1 Corinthians 3:9....
Our apostle here, in the judgment of some interpreters, makes use of. farther argument to convince the Corinthians of the evil of their divisions. They are the church and temple of God, therefore not...