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Verse 1 Corinthians 3:9. _FOR WE ARE LABOURERS TOGETHER WITH GOD_] We
do nothing of ourselves, nor in reference to ourselves; we labour
together in that work which God has given us to do, expect all...
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FOR WE ARE LABOURERS TOGETHER WITH GOD - Θεοῦ γάρ
ἐσμεν συνεργοί Theou gar esmen sunergoi. We are
God’s co-workers. A similar expression occurs in 2 Corinthians 6:1,
“We then as workers together w...
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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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WE. i.e. Paul and Sosthenes. See 1 Corinthians 1:1.
LABOURERS TOGETHER WITH GOD. God's fellow-workers. The word "God" is
in the genitive of possession (App-17), as in the two other clauses of
the vers...
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_For we are labourers together with God_ The Apostle now gives the
argument another turn. From _man's_point of view the preachers of the
Gospel are mere instruments in God's hands. Not so from God's....
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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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ΘΕΟΥ͂ ΓΆΡ ἘΣΜΕΝ ΣΥΝΕΡΓΟΊ. FOR WE ARE GOD’S
FELLOW-LABOURERS. The A.V. rather obscures the Apostle’s meaning
here. His point is (see last verse and 1 Corinthians 3:23) that we
all, though our individua...
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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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ΣΥΝΕΡΓΌΣ (G4904) сотрудник. Это слово с
_gen._ может означать "сотрудники Бога"
или "сотрудники на службе Богу". В
данном контексте Павел говорит, что
все работники на службе Богу равны
(Victor Paul F...
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FOR WE ARE LABOURERS TOGETHER WITH GOD— _For we are the
fellow-labourers of God._ Doddridge....
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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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For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry ye are
God's building For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's
husbandry, ye are God's building.
GOD - Translate, as the G...
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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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3:9 fellow-workmen; (l-5) 'Workers, or labourers _ together with God_
,' goes too far. The Greek word has the sense of journeyman, but they
are fellows doing the chief's work. see 2 Corinthians 6:1 ....
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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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Thrice in this verse the Apostle repeats the name of God with
emphasis, to explain and to impress the assertion of the previous
verse, that men are to recognise the unity, and God alone the
diversity,...
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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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Θεοῦ … συνεργοὶ sums up in two words, and grounds upon
a broad principle (γάρ), what 1 Corinthians 3:6 ff. have set out in
detail: “we are _God's_ fellow-workmen” employed upon _His_ field,
_His_ buil...
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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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The Church is God's Building
Then, Paul and Apollos were workers together under God. The field they
worked in, which literally could be translated "tilled land," was
God's. To further illustrate, Paul...
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For we are (e) labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry,
[ye are] God's building.
(e) Serving under him: now they who serve under another do nothing by
their own strength, but as it is give...
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_We are God's coadjutors, labouring in his service, as he hath
employed us. --- You are God's husbandry, the soil, where virtues are
to be planted. You are God's building, the edifice, the house, or e...
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“For we are labourers together with God; ye are God's husbandry,
God's building.” It is not without reason that in the original the
word θεοῦ, _God's_, heads the three propositions of this verse.
God...
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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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_GOD AND THE SOUL_
‘Ye are God’s husbandry.’
1 Corinthians 3:9
What this text tells us is this—that Christian people are to God
just what the tillage of the earth is to us.
I. OUR HEARTS AND SOULS...
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_SANCTIFIED FOR SERVICE_
‘We are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye
are God’s building.’
1 Corinthians 3:9
Your soul is God’s seed-field, God’s building; we are labourers
toget...
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9._For we are fellow-laborers with God. _Here is the best argument. It
is the Lord’s work that we are employed in, and it is to him that we
have devoted our labors: hence, as he is faithful and just,...
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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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FOR WE ARE LABOURERS TOGETHER WITH GOD,.... The ministers of the
Gospel are labourers in the Lord's vineyard, and not loiterers; their
work is a laborious work, both to body and mind; which lies in cl...
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For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, _ye
are_ God's building.
Ver. 9. _For we are labourers, &c._] Let ministers hence learn their,
1. Dignity; 2. Duty. _Fructus honos oner...
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_He that planteth and he that watereth are one_ United in affection,
and engaged in one general design, the design of glorifying God in the
salvation of souls, though their labours may be in some resp...
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LABORERS TOGETHER WITH GOD; he as the cause, we as the instruments.
HUSBANDRY-BUILDING; the church is here compared to a cultivated field,
in which husbandmen labor and God causes things to grow; and...
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FOR WE ARE LABORERS TOGETHER WITH GOD; YE ARE GOD'S HUSBANDRY, YE ARE
GOD'S BUILDING....
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The laborers and the foundation:...
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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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HUSBANDRY:
Or, tillage...
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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,...
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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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Though compared with God we are nothing, yet our station is no mean
station; God works as the principal efficient Cause, we work with God
as his instruments; God worketh one way, by his secret influen...
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For we are God's fellow-workers: ye are God's husbandry, God's
building [The supreme ownership of God is here emphasized, as is shown
by the three possessives. Paul and Apollos were not fellow-workers...
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Shepherd of Hermas Vision Third
I answered and said to her, "When, then, will they be useful for the
building, Lady? "When the riches that now seduce them have been
circumscribed, then will they be o...
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1 Corinthians 3:9 For G1063 are G2070 (G5748) Gods G2316 workers G4904
are G2075 (G5748) Gods G2316 field...
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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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‘Now he who plants and he who waters are one. But each shall receive
his own reward according to his own labour. For we are God's
fellow-workers. You are God's prepared land, you are God's building.'...
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1 Corinthians 3:9. FAR WE ARE GOD'S FELLOW-WORKERS: YE ARE GOD'S
HUSBANDRY, GOD'S BUILDING. After sinking himself, with his
fellow-workers, to the level of mere servants, he now lifts them up to
the d...
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GOD'S FELLOW-WORKERS
(θεου συνεργο). This old word (co-workers of God) has a new
dignity here. God is the major partner in the enterprise of each life,
but he lets us work with him. Witness the mot...
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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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FOR WE ARE PARTNERS. They are not _rivals,_ as the Corinthians seemed
to think. They are God's workers, carrying out God's mission. GOD'S
FIELD. Compare Matthew 13:3-30. GOD'S BUILDING. God's temple i...
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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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_For we are labourers together with God._ S. Dionysius (_Cælest_.
_Hierarch._ c. 3) says, " _A great, an angelic, nay, a Divine dignity
is it to become a fellow-worker with God in the conversion of so...
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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 3:16; 1 Corinthians 3:6; 1 Corinthians 6:19; 1 Peter
2:5;...
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God 's. In this and the two following clauses, God is emphatic. "It is
of God that ye are the fellow - workers."
Husbandry [γ ε ω ρ γ ι ο ν]. Rev., in margin, tilled land.
Only here in the New Testame...
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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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For we are all fellowlabourers — God's labourers, and
fellowlabourers with each other. Ye are God's husbandry — This is
the sum of what went before: it is a comprehensive word, taking in
both a field,...
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Observe here, 1. The honourable title put upon the ministers of God,
they are labourers or workers together with God.
But in what sense are they so?
ANS. Not so by any power or their own to produce a...