1 Corinthians 1:8 - Exposition

Who; clearly Christ, though his Name is again repeated in the next clause. Shall also confirm you. This natural expression of the apostle's yearning hope for them must not be overpressed into any such doctrine as "the indefectibility of grace." All honest and earnest students must resist the tendency to strain the meaning of Scripture texts into endless logical inferences which were never intended to be deduced from them. Unto the end; namely, to the end of "this age," and to the coming of Christ ( Matthew 28:20 ; Hebrews 3:6 , Hebrews 3:13 ; Hebrews 6:11 ). That ye be unreprovable; rather, unimpeached ( anenkletous ) , as in Colossians 1:22 ; 1 Timothy 3:1-16 :18; Titus 1:6 . It is not the word rendered "blameless" ( amemptos ) in Philippianws Titus 2:15 or in 2 Peter 3:14 . A Christian can only be "blameless," not as being sinless, but as having been forgiven, renewed, sanctified ( 1 Corinthians 6:11 ; Romans 8:30 ). In the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. This is the same as the apokalypsis or parousia. It is sometimes called simply "the day".