Charles Spurgeon

because our testimony about Christ was confirmed in you.

“IT is not always the most gifted church which is in the most healthy state. A church may have many rich, influential, or learned members—many that have the gift of utterance and understand all sciences—yet that church may be in an unhealthy condition.”

God, who has called you into fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.

“PAUL is here arguing for the safety, the perseverance and the ultimate perfection of the saints to whom he is writing.”

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

“NOTE well that in the 17th verse Paul had renounced the "wisdom of words." He says that he was sent to "preach the Gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the Cross of Christ should be made of no effect."”

but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

“UNBELIEF toward the gospel of Christ is the most unreasonable thing in all the world, because the reason which the unbeliever gives for his unbelief is fairly met by the character and constitution of the gospel of Christ.”

For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

“CORINTH was situated in the midst of a people who admired eloquence and wisdom. This Epistle was written in the age of orators and philosophers.”

For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?

“OR, AS IT IS in the Greek: “For who distinguisheth thee?” “Who giveth thee distinguishing and discriminating mercy?” “Who maketh thee to differ from another?” Pride is the inherent sin of man, and yet it is of all sins the most foolish.”

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?

“To this the best answer is found in the godly, honest, and sober lives of the men who are most zealous for the Gospel of the Grace of God.”

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit…

“THE Gospel is as holy as the Law. The Gospel is full of mercy to sinners, but it shows no mercy to sin. The Gospel speaks most tenderly to the ungodly, but it speaks most sternly to ungodliness.”

you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

“ATTACKS have often been made upon the central doctrine of the Gospel, namely, the doctrine of Redemption or Atonement, for it is well-known to be the crux of the Gospel. These onslaughts have, in many instances, been very craftily made.”

You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.

“THE same words are found in each place, though a different inference is drawn from them. "You are bought with a price."”

What I am saying, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none;

“THE text does not say that time is short. That would have been a true statement, but compared with eternity, time, at the very longest, is but as a pin's point. But note what the text does say—" The time is short."”

Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit?

“THIS question occurs in the course of an argument. The Apostle was proving that the minister who gives all his time to the preaching of the Word is entitled to a maintenance from those people amongst whom he labours.”

To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.

“THE Apostle speaks very broadly and talks about saving men. Some of our extremely orthodox Brothers would say at once, "You save men? How can man do that? The expression is inaccurate in the extreme. Is not salvation of the Lord from first to last?”

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize.

“WE ARE CONTINUALLY insisting upon it from day to day, that salvation is not of works, but of grace. We lay this down as one of the very first doctrines of the gospel. “Not of works, lest any man should boast.””

No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear.

“THE children of God are all subject to temptation—some of them are tempted more than others, but I an persuaded that there is not one, except those who are too young to be conscious of evil, who will enter Heaven without having endured some temptation.”

For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night He was betrayed, took bread,

“WE have no respect whatever for the ordinances of men in religion. Anything that is only invented by churches, or councils, is nothing whatever to us. We know of two ordinances instituted by the Lord Jesus Christ—the Baptism of Believers and the Lord's Supper.”

and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”

“IT SEEMS, then, that Christians may forget Christ. The text implies the possibility of forgetfulness concerning him whom gratitude and affection should constrain them to remember.”

For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.

“IT seems to me that the Lord's Supper should be received by us often. When the Apostle says, in our text, "As often as you eat this bread, and drink this cup," and our Lord said, in instituting the ordinance, "This do you, as often…”

For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.

“FIRST, let me say that the Lord's Supper is nothing to us unless we partake of it as spiritual persons in a spiritual way. We must understand what we are doing in coming to the Communion Table. The mere mechanical celebration will be vanity.”

For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.

“This solemn ordinance has been instituted and perpetuated to commemorate the death of our Lord Jesus Christ, but there is no ordinance to commemorate His life.”

Each one must examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup.

“WE do not hold it right to admit all persons indiscriminately to the Lord's Supper—we believe the Lord's Table is the place of communion—and we would have none there with whom we cannot have true Christian fellowship.”

Each one must examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup.

“IT can never be too clearly understood that spiritual ordinances are only for spiritual persons. Baptism and the Lord's Supper belong to Believers and to none but Believers.”

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain.

“THIS confession, suitable on the lips of Paul, is equally appropriate in the mouth of each one of us who have known and proved the Grace of God.”

But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

“OUR religion is not based upon opinions, but upon facts. We hear persons sometimes saying, "Those are your views, and these are ours." Whatever your "views" may be, is a small matter—what are the facts of the case?”

If our hope in Christ is for this life alone, we are to be pitied more than all men.

“YOU WILL UNDERSTAND that the apostle is arguing with professedly Christian people, who were dubious about the resurrection of the dead.”