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Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 3:16-23

The Church Is God’s Sacred Sanctuary For The Spirit of God Dwells In Them And They Are Hid With Christ in God. Let Divisive Teachers Therefore Beware (3:16-23). Paul now applies his building analogy to the idea of the Temple. When men seek to establish a religion they build a Temple. Well this is what God is also doing. On the foundation of Jesus Christ He is building His Temple, and this Temple is His people. It is not quite the same illustration. Previously the building being constructed was... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 3:18-19

‘Let no man deceive himself. If any man thinks that he is wise among you in this world (or ‘age’), let him become a fool that he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.’ Paul comes back to what has been his theme all along. The need to recognise the wisdom of God, that is, to recognise in Christ crucified the wisdom of God which must be central in all they teach (1 Corinthians 1:30), and not to be taken up with the wisdom of the world. There is to be no doubt... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 3:18-23

1 Corinthians 3:18-Isaiah : . It is a False Wisdom that Pits one Leader against Another: All are Yours.— Paul warns against the self-deception which causes a man to overrate his own judgment. Better renounce his worldly wisdom, which God counts foolishness that he may become really wise. As Scripture says, God grips fast the wise in their cleverness ( Job 5:13), and He knows the emptiness of their thoughts ( Psalms 94:11, Paul substitutes “ the wise” for “ men” ). So let none boast that he... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 3:18

Let not man deceive himself: there are some that, with their eloquence and flourishes of words, or with their philosophical notions and reasonings, {which, Colossians 2:8, the apostle calls vain deceit} or with their traditions after the rudiments of the world, ( as the apostle addeth in that place), would cheat and deceive your souls, under a pretence of making you wonderfully wise: the wisdom of the world is foolishness with God. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world; if any... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:16-20

CRITICAL NOTES1 Corinthians 3:16.—A temple (R.V.) misses, or denies, the typology binding Old Testament and New Testament together here. A case where, as often (e.g. 1 Corinthians 11:20), one of the great leading facts of the Old Covenant is divested of its temporary, local robing and embodiment, and brought forward into the new world of the New Testament, to find a new embodiment in the Church. The old building has gone; the new shrine where God dwells on earth is growing, rising, every day. A... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:18-19

1 Corinthians 3:18-19 The Self-wise Inquirer. Let us inquire what is the vain wisdom of the world, and then we shall the better see how it leads men astray. I. Now, when it is said that to trust our own notions is a wrong thing and a vain wisdom, of course this is not meant of all our notions whatever; for we must trust our own notions in one shape or other, and some notions which we form are right and true. The notions which we may trust without blame are such as come to us by way of our... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - 1 Corinthians 3:18

DISCOURSE: 1948THE MEANS OF ATTAINING TRUE WISDOM1 Corinthians 3:18. Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.CONCERNING the nature of true wisdom, God and the world are at issue; the wisdom of man being foolishness with God, and the wisdom of God being foolishness with man [Note: Compare 1 Corinthians 1:18; 1 Corinthians 1:23. with 3:19.]. To what now must this be imputed? Is there any thing in the revelation... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 3:1-23

Let's turn now to I Corinthians, chapter 3.Beginning with the fourteenth verse of chapter 2, Paul here separates men into three classifications. Starting in chapter 2 with the natural man, the unregenerate man, the man who knows not Jesus Christ. And concerning him, he said, "He cannot receive the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness unto him, neither can he know them for they are spiritually discerned." So the natural man in darkness, not able to see, not able to know the... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 1 Corinthians 3:1-23

1 Corinthians 3:1-2 . Babes in Christ, like children at the breast, requiring to be fed with milk, and not with meat. Our great tutor here addresses the Corinthians in a superior style of eloquence, to make them ashamed of their folly, being yet like children, crying and debating in parties, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos. 1 Corinthians 3:6-8 . I have planted, Apollos watered. Here again we see the great and noble mind of this apostle. He detracts nothing from the real excellence of... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Corinthians 3:16-23

1 Corinthians 3:16-23Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? The two templesTwo points comprehend the apostle’s teaching in this chapter.1. The foundation of Christian life and doctrine (1 Corinthians 3:11).2. The form of Christian life and doctrine built thereon. It is to be worthy of the foundation (1Co 3:10; 1 Corinthians 3:12, &c.). Christian teachers have a covenant engagement--to erect a temple on a previously laid foundation. According... read more

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