Verse 1 Corinthians 3:11. Other foundation can no man lay] I do not speak particularly concerning the foundation of this spiritual building; it can have no other foundation than Jesus Christ: there cannot be two opinions on this subject among the true apostles of our Lord. The only fear is, lest an improper use should be made of this heavenly doctrine; lest a bad superstructure should be raised on this foundation.
FOR OTHER FOUNDATION - It is “implied” by the course of the argument here, that This was the foundation which had been laid at Corinth, and on which the church there had been reared. And it is affirme...
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...
THE SUPREME IMPORTANCE OF GOD (1 Corinthians 3:1-9)...
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...
NO MAN. no one. Greek. _oudeis._ THAN. beside. App-104. JESUS CHRIST. App-98....
_than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ_ "He does not say τεθέντα, _laid_, but κείμενον, _lying_, of His own accord." Wordsworth. There is a reference here to the prophecy in Isaiah 28:16, which is...
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...
ΠΑΡΆ. BESIDE. Cf. Plat. _Phaed._ 107 A οὔκουν ἔγωγε ἔχω παρὰ ταῦτα ἄλλο τι λέγειν. ΤῸΝ ΚΕΊΜΕΝΟΝ. ‘He does not say τεθέντα, _laid_, but κείμενον, _lying_, of His own accord.’ Bp Wordsworth. There is a...
CHRISTIAN MINISTERS ONLY LABOURERS OF MORE OR LESS EFFICIENCY, THE SUBSTANTIAL WORK BEING GOD’S...
_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...
ΆΛΛΟΣ (G2310) другой, другой подобного рода, ΔΎΝΑΤΑΙ _praes. ind. pass. (dep.) от_ ΔΎΝΑΜΑΙ (G1410) быть способным, с _inf._ ΘΕΪ́ΝΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΤΊΘΗΜΙ (G5087) класть, ΠΑΡΆ (G3844) с _асс._...
DISCOURSE: 1945 CHRIST THE ONLY FOUNDATION 1 Corinthians 3:11. _Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ_. THERE is not any thing more injurious to the Church of God t...
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...
For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. (Isaiah 28:16; Acts 4:12; Ephesians 2:20.) FOR. My warning ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
is a parenthetical comment on θεμέλιον : As to the foundation, that is settled; the workman has to _build upon it_, not to shift it, nor add to it. θεμέλιον γὰρ ἄλλον οὐδεὶς δύναται θεῖναι παρὰ κ. τ....
§ 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...
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...
(5) For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. (5) Moreover, he shows what this foundation is, that is, Christ Jesus, from whom they may not turn away in the least...
“For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.” The γάρ, _for_, announces an explanation of the warning contained in the βλεπέτω, _let him consider well._ The γάρ refer...
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...
(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...
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 CHURCH’S ONE FOUNDATION_ ‘Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.’ 1 Corinthians 3:11 In recent years this Catholic belief has been assailed. Competent schola...
11._For other foundation can no man lay _This statement consists of two parts; _first_, that Christ is the only foundation of the Church; and _secondly_, that the Corinthians had been rightly founded...
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...
FOR OTHER FOUNDATION CAN NO MAN LAY,.... Men may attempt to lay other foundations than Christ, and build upon them, but to no purpose; they will be of no avail; all besides him are sandy foundations;...
For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Ver. 11. _Which is Jesus Christ_] The doctrine of his person and offices is the foundation of Christian religion, and mus...
_According to the grace of God_ This he premises, lest he should seem to ascribe any thing to himself; _as a wise master-builder_ A _skilful architect_, directed by divine wisdom; _I have laid the fou...
JESUS CHRIST; he is the only sure foundation of human hope; and his true church is composed of such, and such only, as trust in him. Isaiah 28:16; MATTHEW 21:42; ACTS 4:11;...
The laborers and the foundation:...
FOR OTHER FOUNDATION CAN NO MAN LAY THAN THAT IS LAID, WHICH IS JESUS CHRIST. The apostle now employs a different figure in order to bring out another thought closely connected with his present discou...
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...
FOR OTHER FOUNDATION CAN NO MAN LAY THAN THAT WHICH IS LAID, WHICH IS JESUS CHRIST. 'can no man lay' -God determined what the foundation of the church would be, and no one can change that fact. (Matt...
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...
CAN in this text doth not signify a mere natural power, but a rightful power: No man by any just right or authority can lay any other foundation, can preach any other doctrine of salvation, than that...
For other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid [of or by God the Father (1 Peter 2:6); God laid him by gift, Paul by preaching], _which is Jesus Christ_. [Paul had laid Christ as the foun...
Shepherd of Hermas Similitude Ninth If, then, the whole creation is supported by the Son of God, what think ye of those who are called by Him, and bear the name of the Son of God, and walk in His com...
1 Corinthians 3:11 For G1063 other G243 foundation G2310 can G1410 (G5736) anyone G3762 lay G5087 (G5629)
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...
‘For no man can lay another foundation than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.' But now we come the crux of the illustration, there is only one foundation. All centres on Christ. They all prof...
1 Corinthians 3:11. FOR OTHER FOUNDATION CAN NO MAN LAY THAN THAT IS LAID, WHICH IS JESUS CHRIST. The allusion is to that grand announcement, Isaiah 28:16, “Behold, I have laid in Zion for a foundatio...
OTHER FOUNDATION (θεμελιον αλλον). The gender of the adjective is here masculine as is shown by αλλον. If neuter, it would be αλλο. It is masculine because Paul has Christ in mind. It is not here ετ...
1 Corinthians 3:11 Life as a Structure. I. There is a foundation laid. The idea couched in this figure is the radical idea, which runs through the whole of Scripture, that something must be done out...
1 Corinthians 3:11 Consider how Christ is the True foundation. I. The nature of Christ. It was Godhead divested of its circumstance. His great power, the secret of His wonderful, unparalleled career,...
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....
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...
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,...
FOR GOD HAS ALREADY PLACED JESUS CHRIST. By God's decree, Jesus Christ is _the foundation,_ the CORNERSTONE (Ephesians 2:20) upon which the whole spiritual temple is constructed....
_Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ._ THE ONE FOUNDATION I. Men often try to lay another foundation. 1. Reason. 2. Self-righteousness. 3. The goodness of God...
_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...
_For other foundation can no man lay._ I have laid the foundation of your Church: let Apollos and others see what superstructure they raise upon, but not endeavour to lay a new foundation. For no othe...
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...
_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...
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 Peter 2:6; 2 Corinthians 11:2; 2 Timothy 2:19; Acts 4:11; Acts 4:12
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...
For other foundation — On which the whole church: and all its doctrines, duties, and blessings may be built. Can no man lay than what is laid — In the counsels of divine wisdom, in the promises and pr...
Who is the foundation of the church, Christ or the apostles? PROBLEM: In this text, Paul insists that “no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.” On the other...
That is, no other foundation can man lay, than that which is already laid by me; namely, the knowledge of Jesus Christ, and faith in him. The ministers of Christ ought to lay no other foundation than...