1 Corinthians 1:9 BSB

1 Corinthians 1:9

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

God is faithful, through whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

KJV

God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

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Commentary

3 voices

Origen of Alexandria

COMMENTARY ON 1 CORINTHIANS 1.3 (253)

Believe in Christ always, because you were called for no other purpose than to be one with us in him.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

God is faithful - That is, God is true, and constant, and will adhere to his promises. He will not deceive. He will not promise, and then fail to perform; he will not commence anything which he will not perfect and finish. The object of Paul in introducing the idea of the faithfulness of God here, is to show the reason for believing that the Christians at Corinth would be kept unto everlasting life.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2580: “Partnership With Christ” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1898)

PAUL is here arguing for the safety, the perseverance and the ultimate perfection of the saints to whom he is writing. He thanks God for what He has done for them and is assured that He will do yet more—that He will certainly confirm them unto the end—that they may be blameless in the day of Jesus Christ. The Apostle bases his argument upon this Truth of God—"God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord."

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Πιστὸς	Pistos	Faithful [is]	G4103 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
θεός,	theos	God,	G2316 →
δι᾽	di᾽	through	G1223 →
οὗ	hou	whom	G3739 →
ἐκλήθητε	eklēthēte	you were called	G2564 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
κοινωνίαν	koinōnian	fellowship	G2842 →
τοῦ	tou	with the	G3588 →
υἱοῦ	huiou	Son	G5207 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	of Him	G846 →
Ἰησοῦ	Iēsou	Jesus	G2424 →
Χριστοῦ	Christou	Christ	G5547 →
τοῦ	tou	the	G3588 →
κυρίου	kuriou	Lord	G2962 →
ἡμῶν.¶	hēmōn	of us.	G3165 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Corinthians 10:13
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. But when you are tempted, He will…
leads to
- 2 Thessalonians 3:3
  But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- 2 Timothy 4:18
  And the Lord will rescue me from every evil action and bring me safely into His heavenly kingdom. To Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 2 Peter 2:9
  if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.
- 1 Peter 5:8–9
  Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
- Hebrews 12:4
  In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
Through
Hebrews 10:23
Let us hold resolutely to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.
leads to
- 1 Thessalonians 5:24
  The One who calls you is faithful, and He will do it.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Hebrews 6:18
  Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.
Through
Deuteronomy 7:9
Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.
leads to
- Hebrews 10:23
  Let us hold resolutely to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.