1 Corinthians 3:23 - Exposition

And ye are Christ's (see 1 Corinthians 6:19 ; 1 Corinthians 15:23 ; Romans 14:8 ; Galatians 3:29 ). Christians possess because they are possessed by Christ (Meyer). Christ is our Master, and God our Father ( Matthew 23:10 ). And Christ is God's; because "Christ is equal to the Father as touching his Godhead, but inferior to the Father as touching his manhood." Hence in 1 Corinthians 11:3 he says, "The head of Christ is God;" and in 1 Corinthians 15:28 , we read of Christ resigning his mediatorial kingdom, that God may be all in all. Perhaps St. Paul implies the thought that Christ belongs, not to a party, but to God, the Father of us all. But the ultimate climax from Christ to God is found also in 1 Corinthians 4:1 : Romans 15:5 , etc.