And (1) I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto (a) carnal, [even] as unto babes in Christ. (1) Having declared the worthiness of heavenly wisdom, and of the Gospel, and having generally condemned the blindness of man's mind, now at length he applies it particularly to... [ Continue Reading ]
I have fed you with milk, and not with (b) meat: for hitherto ye were not (c) able [to bear it], neither yet now are ye able. (b) Substantial meat, or strong meat. (c) To be fed by me with substantial meat: therefore as the Corinthians grew up in age, so the apostle nourished them by teaching, fir... [ Continue Reading ]
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas [there is] among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as (d) men? (d) Using the tools of man's intellect and judgment.... [ Continue Reading ]
(2) Who then is Paul, and who [is] Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? (2) After he has sufficiently reprehended ambitious teachers, and those who foolishly esteemed them, now he shows how the true ministers are to be esteemed, that we do not attribute to... [ Continue Reading ]
(3) I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. (3) He beautifies the former sentence, with two similarities: first comparing the company of the faithful to a field which God makes fruitful, when it is sown and watered through the labour of his servants. Second, be comparing it to a... [ Continue Reading ]
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 given them of grace, which grace makes them fit for that service. See (1 Corinthians 15:10; 2 Corinthia... [ Continue Reading ]
According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. (4) But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. (4) Now he speaks to the teachers themselves, who succeeded him in the church of Corinth, and in this r... [ Continue Reading ]
(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 amount in the building up of this building.... [ Continue Reading ]
(6) Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; (6) Thirdly he shows that they must take heed that the upper part of the building is answerable to the foundation. That is that admonitions, exhortations, and whatever pertains to the edifying of the fl... [ Continue Reading ]
(7) Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. (7) He testifies, as indeed it truly is, that all are not good builders, not even all of those who stand upon this one and onl... [ Continue Reading ]
If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but (8) he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. (8) He does not take away the hope of salvation from the unskilful and foolish builders, who hold fast the foundation, of which sort were those rhetoricians, rather than the pastors of Cor... [ Continue Reading ]
(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 also sacrilegious: for he says that the Church is as it were the Temple of God, which God has as it w... [ Continue Reading ]
If any man (f) defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are. (f) Defiles it and makes it unclean, being holy: and surely they do defile it, by Paul's judgment, who by fleshly eloquence defile the purity of the Gospel.... [ Continue Reading ]
(10) Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. (10) He concludes by the opposite, that they profess pure wisdom in the Church of God, who refuse and cast away all those vanities of men. Further, if they are mocked... [ Continue Reading ]
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 their treachery.... [ Continue Reading ]
(11) Therefore let no man (h) glory in men. For all things are (i) yours; (11) He returns to the proposition of the second verse, first warning the hearers, that from now on they do not esteem as lords those whom God has appointed to be ministers and not lords of their salvation. This is done by th... [ Continue Reading ]
Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the (12) world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; (12) He passes from the persons to the things themselves, that his argument may be more forcible. Indeed, he ascends from Christ to the Father, to show that we rest oursel... [ Continue Reading ]