1 Corinthians 16:14

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 16:13-18

In this passage the apostle gives, I. Some general advices; as, 1. That they should watch (1 Cor. 16:13), be wakeful and upon their guard. A Christian is always in danger, and therefore should ever be on the watch; but the danger is greater at some times and under some circumstances. The Corinthians were in manifest danger upon many accounts: their feuds ran high, the irregularities among them were very great, there were deceivers got among them, who endeavoured to corrupt their faith in the... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 16:13-21

16:13-21 Be on the alert; stand fast in the faith; play the man; be strong. Let all your affairs be transacted in love. Brothers I urge you--(you know the family of Stephanas was the first-fruits of God's harvest in Achaea and that they have laid themselves out to be of help to Christ's people)--that you too may be obedient to such men and to all who share in the common work of the gospel and who toil for it. I rejoice at the arrival of Stephanas, Fortunatus and Achaicus, because they... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 16:14

Let all your things be done with charity. Signifying, that the whole of their obedience to Christ, their observation of, and subjection to all his ordinances and commands, should spring from, and be done in love to him; and that the whole of their conduct and behaviour towards one another ought to be with charity, which bears all things, and covers a multitude of sins; and that all their church affairs, their business at church meetings, should be transacted, not with strife and vain glory,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 16:14

Let all your things be done with charity - Let love to God, to man, and to one another, be the motive of all your conduct. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 16:14

Verse 14 14.Let all your things be done in love Again he repeats what is the rule in all those transactions, in which we have dealings with one another. He wishes, then, that love shall be the directress; because the Corinthians erred chiefly in this respect — that every one looked to himself without caring for others. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 16:1-18

Directions and arrangements. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 16:6-18

St. Paul and his purposes; his friends; earnest exhortation. If the apostle were before us in his Epistles as an inspired man of genius only, whose intellect teemed with great thoughts, and whose heart was absorbed in supplying fervency to those thoughts, his hold upon us would be weakened. The man has nothing about him of the intellectualist. Among the varieties of mind and character that have arisen from time to time in the development of humanity, turn for a moment to the ideal of an... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 16:13-14

The demands of Christianity on its adherents. " Watch ye, stand fast in the faith," etc. Here are certain demands which Christianity makes on all men. I. A demand for VIGILANCE . "Watch ye." A military metaphor this, derived from the duty of those who are stationed to guard a camp or to observe the motions of an enemy. There were many evils, as we have seen, in the Corinthian Church—dissensions, heresies, inchastities, intemperances, etc. Hence the necessity of watchfulness. But... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 16:13-14

A fivefold exhortation. This the Corinthians needed. It fitly comes near the conclusion of the Epistle, summarizing much that has gone before. The Corinthians tended towards false security, reliance upon gifts and teachers; so the apostle says, "Watch ye." They were wavering in adhesion to the gospel which Paul preached; so he says, "Stand fast in the faith." They were but "babes" ( 1 Corinthians 3:1 ); so the apostle incites them to seek more of the qualities of manhood: "Quit you like... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 16:14

Let all your things be done with charity; rather, as in the Revised Version, Let all that ye do be done in love. This is equivalent to the "Above all things, have fervent love among yourselves," of l Peter 1 Corinthians 4:8 . read more

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