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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 4:1-21

Christ Crucified For Us And The New Birth Through the Spirit Are the Two Central Foundations of Christianity (1:10-4:21). Paul begins this section by revealing his concern that the Corinthians are in danger of splitting up into different parties around the teaching of certain leading teachers (1 Corinthians 1:10-17), and concentrating on secondary aspects of that teaching, rather than being united around the one central truth of Christ crucified, the one fact which is central to the Christian... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 4:3

‘But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by man’s day.’ Indeed so essential is this relationship between master and steward that anyone else’s opinion becomes unimportant. It is to Him alone that the steward is accountable. The Corinthians may make judgments about him as much as they like. They may examine his ministry and ‘compare’ him with, judge him alongside (’anakrino), other teachers, but as long as he is being a faithful steward in so far as his abilities... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 4:3-4

He does not, however, want them to think that he is disparaging their judgment. So he points out that he will not even judge himself, because he is quite frankly not adequate to do so. He may be totally satisfied with what he teaches and how he behaves as an Apostle. He may feel he has done well. He may even fall into despair. But that does not declare him to be in the right or wrong. There is only One Who can do that, and that is the Lord (see Proverbs 21:2). So let them beware of making hasty... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 4:1-13

1 Corinthians 4:1-1 Chronicles : . Paul will Accept no Judgment but Christ’ s. The Fortunate Lot of the Corinthians Contrasted with the Miserable Condition of the Apostles.— This section is concerned with the attitude of the Corinthians to Paul. Some were critical, there may have been a suggestion to put him on his trial before the church. He first states the criterion that ought to be applied in judging him and his colleagues. They are mere subordinates (a different Gr. word from that in 1... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 4:2

It is required of all servants, but especially of chief servants, such as stewards are, who are intrusted with their masters’ goods, to be dispensed out to others. The faithfulness of a steward in dispensing out his master’s goods lies in his giving them out according to his master’s order, giving to every one their portion, not detaining any thing from others which it is his master’s will they should have; as Paul gloried, Acts 20:20,Acts 20:27, that he had kept back from the Ephesians nothing... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 4:3

Those who said, I am of Apollos, and I am of Cephas, did at least tacitly judge Paul, and prefer Apollos and Cephas before him; and it is probable, and will appear also from other parts of these Epistles, that they passed very indecent censures concerning Paul: he therefore tells them, that he valued very little what they or any other men said of him. In the Greek it is, of man’s day; but it is generally thought that our translators have given us the true sense, in translating it man’s... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 Corinthians 4:1-5

CRITICAL NOTES1 Corinthians 4:1. So.—Choose between (a) a forward reference to “as” (e.g. with Stanley), and (b) a backward reference (with, e.g., Evans, in Speaker, and Beet) to 1 Corinthians 3:21-22; meaning: “Let a man account of us as Christ’s servants, having moreover the greater thought also present in his thinking, and governing his estimate of us, that we are thus the house stewards in Christ’s household for the very purpose of dispensing to him and his brethren these ‘all things’ which... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 4:3

1 Corinthians 4:3 The judgment of our fellow-creatures upon our acts and our characters is, practically speaking, an inevitable accompaniment of human life. I. Human judgments keep order in the world of thought and in the world of conduct a certain sort of order, at any rate. (1) They do not, for instance, go far wrong when they are brought face to face with a great public crime which, as being such, is patent, whether to the natural or to Christian conscience. Take, for instance, such crimes... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 4:3-4

1 Corinthians 4:3-4 The Christian's Relation to Public Opinion . Note: I. That St. Paul was judged unfavourably at this time at the bar of the public opinion of the church of Corinth. The expression "public opinion" describes the common fund of thought which belongs to a larger or smaller number of associated human beings. Every village, every town, every city, has its public opinion its own characteristic way of dealing with people and things about it. And, as earthly societies, churches have... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - 1 Corinthians 4:3-5

DISCOURSE: 1952PAUL’S INDIFFERENCE TO MEN’S JUDGMENT1 Corinthians 4:3-5. With me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man’s judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self. For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord, Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise... read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 4:1-21

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 4:3

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 4:3-4

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 4:1-13

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 4:2

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 4:3

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 Corinthians 4:1-5

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 4:3

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 4:3-4

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - 1 Corinthians 4:3-5

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