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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 3:9

Verse 9 9.For we are fellow-laborers with God. Here is the best argument. It is the Lord’s work that we are employed in, and it is to him that we have devoted our labors: hence, as he is faithful and just, he will not disappoint us of our reward. That man, accordingly, is mistaken who looks to men, or depends merely on their remuneration. Here we have an admirable commendation of the ministry — that while God could accomplish the work entirely himself, he calls us, puny mortals, (165) to be as... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:1-8

Reflections for Churches. "And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual," etc. In these verses are three subjects worthy of the profoundest contemplation. I. THE GRADUATING METHOD OF TEACHING . "And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk," etc. Truth is to be administered with a practical regard to the receptive powers of the student, just as the administration of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:1-9

Christian teachers and their work. The apostle has still in view the dissensions prevailing in the Corinthian Church. Throughout the first four chapters this subject is never absent from his mind, even when it is most in the background. The spirit of party, with the various phases of thought and life that found expression therein, suggests the several topics on which he enlarges. I. THE CHRISTIAN TEACHER ADAPTS HIS TEACHING TO THE CAPACITIES OF HIS HEARERS . ( ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:5-7

Man's work and God's. Explain the agricultural figure used in 1 Corinthians 3:6 . In the production of the year's harvest many different agencies are employed. Each man has work and his time for work, and upon man's labour the harvest in large measure depends. Yet sun, and wind, and rain, and atmosphere, and soil, are things quite as essential as man's work, but absolutely out of man's control. Year by year man ploughs, man plants, man tends, but God gives the increase. So in spiritual... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:5-10

St. Paul's view of the ministry. After declaring to the Corinthians that they were carnal in their estimates of God's ministers, the apostle exposes their folly in this particular, by assuring them that he and Apollos were but ministers, or servants, whom God had commissioned to labour in their behalf. Halfway work he never did. To show their error, and prove that it was a worldly sentiment disguised under a fictitious admiration, he sets before them the true idea of the ministry, as an... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:5-15

The one foundation and the diverse superstructure. read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:6-8

Spiritual husbandry and growth. A man, looking upon the world, sees according to his power of vision; i.e. not simply according to what he finds in it, but to what he brings to it. To the eye of the Apostle Paul, the world was a wilderness which might be made a garden. There was, he saw, rude, worthless growth to be extirpated, rich soil to be tilled, plants of worth and renown to replace the weeds. His prophetic eye beheld the desert rejoice and blossom as the rose. And to his mind... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:7

Anything. The planter and the waterer are nothing by comparison. They could do nothing without Christ's aid ( John 15:16 ), and were nothing in themselves ( 2 Corinthians 12:11 ). But God that giveth the increase . The human instruments are nothing, but God is everything, because, apart from him, no result would follow. read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:8

Are one; literally, one thing. God is the sole Agent; the teachers, so far from being able to pose as rival leaders, form but one instrument in God's hand. Their relative differences shrink into insignificance when the source and objects of their ministry are considered. His own reward… his own labour. In the lower individual sphere the work of teachers shall be fairly estimated and rewarded as in the parable of the pounds and talents (comp. John 4:36 ; Revelation 22:12 ). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:9

God's fellow workers. Throughout the Bible we are taught that God requires the work of man, and that he will not help those who will do nothing for themselves or for him. The world was to be evangelized, not by sudden miracle, but by faithful human labour ( Mark 16:20 ). God's husbandry ; rather. God's field, or tilled land. The thought which he desires again and again to enforce is that they belong to God, not to the parties of human teachers. The word" husbandry" may also mean... read more

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 3:9

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:1-8

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:1-9

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:5-7

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:5-10

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:5-15

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:6-8

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:7

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:8

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:9

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