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A.Still on Milk: Babies Squabbling Over Teachersvv. 1-4

1 Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ. 2 I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. In fact, you are still not ready, 3 for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man? 4 For when one of you says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere men?

B.One Plants, One Waters, God Gives the Growthvv. 5-9

5 What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each his role. 6 I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. 7 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. 8 He who plants and he who waters are one in purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor. 9 For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.

C.Gold or Straw: What the Fire Will Do to Your Workvv. 10-17

10 By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one must be careful how he builds. 11 For no one can lay a foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw, 13 his workmanship will be evident, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will prove the quality of each man’s work. 14 If what he has built survives, he will receive a reward. 15 If it is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as if through the flames. 16 Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

D.Stop Boasting in Men — Everything Already Belongs to Youvv. 18-23

18 Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.” 20 And again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.” 21 Therefore, stop boasting in men. All things are yours, 22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. All of them belong to you, 23 and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.

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Chapter summary

Ye are yet carnal.

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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.

Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary, John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the New Testament and John Calvin, Commentaries.

Context

Epistle · Paul — 1 Corinthians overview

  • A. 1–4 Still on Milk: Babies Squabbling Over Teachers
  • B. 5–9 One Plants, One Waters, God Gives the Growth
  • C. 10–17 Gold or Straw: What the Fire Will Do to Your Work
  • D. 18–23 Stop Boasting in Men — Everything Already Belongs to You
Top cross-references8 chapters ▾
  • 1 Corinthians 35 verses
  • 2 Corinthians 63 verses
    • 2 Corinthians 6:1As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
    • 2 Corinthians 6:4Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships, and calamities;
    • 2 Corinthians 6:16What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”
    • Read 2 Corinthians 6 →
  • Hebrews 52 verses
    • Hebrews 5:11We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain, because you are dull of hearing.
    • Hebrews 5:13For everyone who lives on milk is still an infant, inexperienced in the message of righteousness.
    • Read Hebrews 5 →
  • 1 Peter 22 verses
    • 1 Peter 2:2Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
    • 1 Peter 2:5you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
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    • 2 Timothy 2:19Nevertheless, God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord must turn away from iniquity.”
    • 2 Timothy 2:20A large house contains not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay. Some indeed are for honorable use, but others are for common use.
    • Read 2 Timothy 2 →
  • 1 Corinthians 62 verses
    • 1 Corinthians 6:18Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
    • 1 Corinthians 6:19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
    • Read 1 Corinthians 6 →
  • 1 Corinthians 12 verses
    • 1 Corinthians 1:18For 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.
    • 1 Corinthians 1:19For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”
    • Read 1 Corinthians 1 →
  • Romans 82 verses
    • Romans 8:28And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.
    • Romans 8:32He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?
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Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and OpenBible.info.