The Tabernacle

1 Corinthianschapter 3

23 verses · ASV

This chapter sends 370 cross-references outward and receives 462 — heaviest partner: 1 Corinthians.

Chapter summary

Ye are yet carnal — divisions prove it. Paul planted, Apollos watered, God gave the increase. The foundation is Jesus Christ; every man's work shall be tried by fire. Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit dwelleth in you? Let no man glory in men. All things are yours; and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's. JFB observes the reframing — instead of Christians belonging to teachers, teachers and all things belong to Christians in Christ.

Drafted from Matthew Henry, Calvin, Gill, Clarke, JFB, and Barnes.

Context

Epistle · Paul — see the 1 Corinthians overview for the book's full setting.

16–23 The Tabernacle

1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ.

2 I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able to bear it: nay, not even now are ye able;

3 for ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk after the manner of men?

4 For when one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not men?

5 What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? Ministers through whom ye believed; and each as the Lord gave to him.

6 I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

7 So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: but each shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.