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Verse 19. _THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD_] Whether it be the pretended
deep and occult wisdom of the rabbins, or the wire-drawn speculations
of the Grecian philosophers, _is foolishness with God_; for as...
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FOR THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD - That which is esteemed to be wisdom by
the people of this world on the subject of religion. It does not mean
that true wisdom is foolishness with him. It does not mean t...
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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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IT IS A FALSE WISDOM THAT PITS ONE LEADER AGAINST ANOTHER: ALL ARE
YOURS. Paul warns against the self-deception which causes a man to
overrate his own judgment. Better renounce his worldly wisdom, whi...
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THE SUPREME IMPORTANCE OF GOD (1 Corinthians 3:1-9)...
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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...
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WORLD. Greek. _kosmos._ App-129.
FOOLISHNESS. Greek. _moria._ See 1 Corinthians 1:18.
WITH. App-104.
IS. has been.
TAKETH. Greek. _drassomai._ Only here. Found in the Septuagint, but
not in Job 5:...
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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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_it is written_ In Job 5:13....
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CHRISTIAN MINISTERS ONLY LABOURERS OF MORE OR LESS EFFICIENCY, THE
SUBSTANTIAL WORK BEING GOD’S...
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ΓΈΓΡΑΠΤΑΙ. In Job 5:13.
ΔΡΑΣΣΌΜΕΝΟΣ. Stronger than _take_, A.V. Rather seize.
ἘΝ ΤΗ͂Ι ΠΑΝΟΥΡΓΊΑΙ ΑΥ̓ΤΩ͂Ν. Literally, in
their SCHEMING. The word represents the numberless devices of the man
who is w...
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_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...
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ΠΑΡΆ (G3863) с _dat._ кроме, с, в присутствии
(DM, 108; NIDNTT, 3:1201-3).
ΓΈΓΡΑΠΤΑΙ _perf. ind. pass. от_ ΓΡΆΦΩ (G1125)
писать. _Perf._ указывает на длительный
авторитет написанного документа (ММ),...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
SECTION 3
Concludes With Spiritual Compensation (1 Corinthians 3:18-23)
18 Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you thinks that he is
wise in this age, let him become a foo...
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For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is
written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
WITH GOD - in the judgment of God.
IT IS WRITTEN - in Job 5:13. This formula...
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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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3:19 written, (g-14) See Job 5:13 ....
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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. 'Do not deceive yourselves; but if there be any of you
priding himself on his worldly wisdom let him quickly unlearn it, that
he may learn the true wisdom. (19, 20) For as Holy Scripture t...
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THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD] The conceit and vanity of men are folly with
God. The results of this folly in Christian teachers are indicated in
1 Corinthians 3:15; 1 Corinthians 3:17. IT IS WRITTEN] Job...
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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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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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_a_ gives the reason why the philosophy of the times must be renounced
by the aspirant to Christian wisdom: “For the wisdom of the world is
folly with God” (= 1 Corinthians 1:20); and since it is foll...
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§ 11. THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD. Affectation of philosophy, “the
wisdom of the world,” which P. has repudiated on behalf of the
Gospel (1 Corinthians 1:2) was at the bottom of the Cor [606]
troubles. T...
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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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True Wisdom
True wisdom, according to the apostle Paul, comes in learning to be a
fool in the eyes of this world's wise (Acts 2:24). Pride in one's own
intellectual abilities can keep him from learnin...
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For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is
written, He (g) taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
(g) Be they ever so crafty, yet the Lord will take them when he will
discover...
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Let no man deceive himself. He next precautions them against
themselves, and admonishes them to be upon their guard against
curiosity, presumption, and self-love, and tells them to undervalue
all othe...
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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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“For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is
written, ‘He that taketh the wise in their craftiness.' 20. And
again, ‘The Lord knoweth the reasonings of the wise, that they are
vain...
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(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...
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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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19._For the wisdom of this world _This is an argument taken from
things opposite. To maintain the one is to overturn the other. As,
therefore, _the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God_, it
fo...
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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 THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD IS FOOLISHNESS WITH GOD,.... The wisdom
of the Jewish, or Gentile world. It is had in no account with him; it
is despised and neglected by him; he makes it foolish, destro...
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For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is
written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
Ver. 19. _He taketh the wise_] ο δρασσομενος, those
natural brute beasts, made to...
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_Let no man deceive himself_ Neither teacher, by propagating errors
through pride of his own understanding; nor hearers, by a factious
preferring of one above another for his gifts. _If any man among...
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THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD; that of which worldly men are proud, and in
which they glory.
FOR IT IS WRITTEN; JOB 5:12-13....
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Every Christian a temple of God:...
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FOR THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD IS FOOLISHNESS WITH GOD. FOR IT IS
WRITTEN, HE TAKETH THE WISE IN THEIR OWN CRAFTINESS....
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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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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.' (P...
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18-23 To have a high opinion of our own wisdom, is but to flatter
ourselves; and self-flattery is the next step to self-deceit. The
wisdom that wordly men esteem, is foolishness with God. How justly...
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FOR THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD IS FOOLISHNESS WITH GOD; God accounteth
that folly which the world calleth wisdom, and indeed it is so (for
God cannot err, nor be mistaken in his judgment): the philosoph...
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For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is
written [Job 5:13], _He that taketh the wise in their craftiness:_...
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Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I
For on the believer alone, who is separated entirely from the rest,
who by the Scripture are called wild beasts, rests the head of the
universe, the kind and gen...
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1 Corinthians 3:19 For G1063 wisdom G4678 this G5127 world G2889 is
G2076 (G5748) foolishness G3472 with G38
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‘For it is written.' Paul now establishes his position from
Scripture. This is not just an afterthought. He has been leading up to
this. What he has been saying is in fact what the Scripture, God's
re...
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‘Let no man deceive himself. If any man thinks that he is wise among
you in this world (or ‘age'), let him become a fool that he may
become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.'...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 3:19. FOR THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD IS FOOLISHNESS WITH
GOD (see on ch. 1 Corinthians 1:20).
For it is written (Job 5:13), HE THAT TAKETH THE WISE IN THEIR OWN
CRAFTINESS....
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FOOLISHNESS WITH GOD
(μωρια παρα τω θεω). Whose standard does a church
(temple) of God wish, that of this world or of God? The two standards
are not the same. It is a pertinent inquiry with us all...
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1 Corinthians 3:18
The Self-wise Inquirer.
Let us inquire what is the vain wisdom of the world, and then we shall
the better see how it leads men astray.
I. Now, when it is said that to trust our ow...
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17-18. _If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy;
for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. Let no man deceive
himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this worl...
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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 WHAT THIS WORLD. See 1 Corinthians 1:20 and note. AS THE SCRIPTURE
SAYS. Paul paraphrases Job 5:13 Septuagint. God lets men outsmart
themselves! Compare 1 Corinthians 2:6....
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_Let no man deceive himself._
If any man … seemeth to he wise in this world, let him become a
fool, that he may he wise.
HOW TO AVOID SELF-DECEPTION
I. The danger.
1. Is common.
2. Arises out of...
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_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...
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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 the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God_. God has
rejected the wisdom of the world as worthless, (1.) because it has
nothing in it that is wholesome and Divine, and does nothing towards...
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_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...
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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 1:19; 1 Corinthians 1:20; 1 Corinthians 2:6; 2 Samuel
15:31;...
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He taketh [ο δ ρ α σ σ ο μ ε ν ο ς]. Cited from Job 5:13,
but not following the Septuagint verbally. The verb occurs only here,
meaning to grasp with the hand. Rev., more accurately, gives the force
o...
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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 all the boasted wisdom of the world is mere foolishness in the
sight of God. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness — Not only
while they think they are acting wisely, but by their very wisdom...
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How could Paul consider the words of Eliphaz inspired when God rebuked
Eliphaz for saying them to Job?
PROBLEM: In 1 Corinthians 3:19 the Apostle Paul quotes from the Book
of Job a statement made by o...