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1 Corinthians 3:9

1 Corinthians 3:16; 1 Corinthians 3:6; 1 Corinthians 6:19; 1 Peter 2:5; 1 Timothy 3:15; 2 Corinthians 6:1; 2 Corinthians 6:16; 3 John 1:8; Acts 4:11; Amos 9:11; Amos 9:12; Colossians 2:7; Ephesians 2:10; Ephesians 2:20; Hebrews 3:3; Hebrews 3:4; Hebrews 3:6; Isaiah 27:2; Isaiah 27:3; Isaiah 28:24; Isaiah 32:20; Isaiah 5:1; Isaiah 61:11; Isaiah 61:3; Isaiah 61:5; Jeremiah 2:21; Jeremiah 20:1; Jeremiah 21:23; John 15:1; John 4:35; Mark 16:20; Mark 4:26; Matthew 16:18; Matthew 9:37; Psalms 118:22; Psalms 65:9; Psalms 72:16; Psalms 80:8; Zechariah 6:12; Zechariah 6:13

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 1 Corinthians 3:9. _FOR WE ARE LABOURERS TOGETHER WITH GOD_] We do nothing of ourselves, nor in reference to ourselves; we labour together in that work which God has given us to do, expect all...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR WE ARE LABOURERS TOGETHER WITH GOD - Θεοῦ γάρ ἐσμεν συνεργοί Theou gar esmen sunergoi. We are God’s co-workers. A similar expression occurs in 2 Corinthians 6:1, “We then as workers together w...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The Carnal state of the Corinthians. (1 Corinthians 3:1)._ 2. The Workmen and their Work. (1 Corinthians 3:10). 3. The Church the Temple of God. (1 Corinthians

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    RENEWED CONDEMNATION OF PARTY SPIRIT. Paul has now reached a point where he can effect an easy return to the divisions at Corinth. He has been speaking of the spiritual man who is capable of receiving...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    THE SUPREME IMPORTANCE OF GOD (1 Corinthians 3:1-9)...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    And I, brothers, could not talk to you as I would to spiritual men, but I had to talk to you as to those who had not yet got beyond merely human things, as to infants in Christ. I gave you milk to dri...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WE. i.e. Paul and Sosthenes. See 1 Corinthians 1:1. LABOURERS TOGETHER WITH GOD. God's fellow-workers. The word "God" is in the genitive of possession (App-17), as in the two other clauses of the vers...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _For we are labourers together with God_ The Apostle now gives the argument another turn. From _man's_point of view the preachers of the Gospel are mere instruments in God's hands. Not so from God's....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Christian Ministers only labourers of more or less efficiency, the substantial work being God's 6. _I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase_ The Apostle would lead his converts to r...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΘΕΟΥ͂ ΓΆΡ ἘΣΜΕΝ ΣΥΝΕΡΓΟΊ. FOR WE ARE GOD’S FELLOW-LABOURERS. The A.V. rather obscures the Apostle’s meaning here. His point is (see last verse and 1 Corinthians 3:23) that we all, though our individua...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    CHRISTIAN MINISTERS ONLY LABOURERS OF MORE OR LESS EFFICIENCY, THE SUBSTANTIAL WORK BEING GOD’S...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _THE PREACHERS ARE SERVANTS 1 CORINTHIANS 3:5-10:_ Apollos and Paul were merely servants or ministers that had helped these brethren have faith. Paul had no desire for preachers to receive special hon...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΣΥΝΕΡΓΌΣ (G4904) сотрудник. Это слово с _gen._ может означать "сотрудники Бога" или "сотрудники на службе Богу". В данном контексте Павел говорит, что все работники на службе Богу равны (Victor Paul F...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FOR WE ARE LABOURERS TOGETHER WITH GOD— _For we are the fellow-labourers of God._ Doddridge....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Consists In Spiritual Work For God (1 Corinthians 3:5-17) 5 What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. 6I plant...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    BUTLER'S COMMENTS 1 Corinthians 3:5-9 Builders: All Christians are workers in God's fieldbuilders on God's building. What are apostles? Workers, like every other Christian. They may have gifts from Go...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry ye are God's building For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building. GOD - Translate, as the G...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    5 Apollos was a Jew of Alexandria, a scholarly man, and able in the Scriptures. He came to Ephesus, full of zeal, but versed only in the baptism of John. Priscilla and Aquila heard him speak boldly in...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    3:9 fellow-workmen; (l-5) 'Workers, or labourers _ together with God_ ,' goes too far. The Greek word has the sense of journeyman, but they are fellows doing the chief's work. see 2 Corinthians 6:1 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PARAPHRASE. 'Te yourselves, brethren, are an illustration of what I say. (2) I have treated you as beginners and given you elementary Christian teaching, for hitherto you have been unfit for any other...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    LABOURERS TOGETHER WITH GOD] RV 'God's fellow-workers.' Perhaps, better, 'fellow-workers for God,' the emphasis all through being on God's power and work. The Apostles were fellow-workers with one ano...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FAULT OF PARTY SPIRIT The immaturity of the Corinthian converts and their unfitness for anything but elementary instruction in the faith is proved by their mutual jealousies and their disagreemen...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 3 GOD’S WORKERS 3:1-9 V1 *Brothers and *sisters, I could not speak to you as if the *Holy Spirit was guiding you. I had to speak to you as...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    Thrice in this verse the Apostle repeats the name of God with emphasis, to explain and to impress the assertion of the previous verse, that men are to recognise the unity, and God alone the diversity,...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 6 GOD'S HUSBANDRY AND BUILDING PAUL having abundantly justified his method of preaching to the Corinthians, and having shown why he contented himself with the simple presentation of the Cross...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    Θεοῦ … συνεργοὶ sums up in two words, and grounds upon a broad principle (γάρ), what 1 Corinthians 3:6 ff. have set out in detail: “we are _God's_ fellow-workmen” employed upon _His_ field, _His_ buil...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    § 9. GOD'S RIGHTS IN THE CHURCH. One idea runs through this chapter and into the next, that of _God's_ Church, _God's_ temple at Corinth, in whose construction so many various builders are engaged (1...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    PROSPERITY COMES FROM GOD 1 Corinthians 3:1 In all our relations with our fellow-men, Christ's followers must realize their obligations as members of one great family, with one God. A man may be _in...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The reason for the schisms was that these people were carnal. "Jealousy and strife" are evidences of carnality. Proceeding, Paul declared the true value of the Christian ministry. "For we are God's fe...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    The Church is God's Building Then, Paul and Apollos were workers together under God. The field they worked in, which literally could be translated "tilled land," was God's. To further illustrate, Paul...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    For we are (e) labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, [ye are] God's building. (e) Serving under him: now they who serve under another do nothing by their own strength, but as it is give...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _We are God's coadjutors, labouring in his service, as he hath employed us. --- You are God's husbandry, the soil, where virtues are to be planted. You are God's building, the edifice, the house, or e...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    “For we are labourers together with God; ye are God's husbandry, God's building.” It is not without reason that in the original the word θεοῦ, _God's_, heads the three propositions of this verse. God...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    In order to show what, in a religious organization like that which the gospel creates, is the place of preachers, the apostle takes two examples: Apollos and himself; and he develops what he means to...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (3) For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? (4) For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; a...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _GOD AND THE SOUL_ ‘Ye are God’s husbandry.’ 1 Corinthians 3:9 What this text tells us is this—that Christian people are to God just what the tillage of the earth is to us. I. OUR HEARTS AND SOULS...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _SANCTIFIED FOR SERVICE_ ‘We are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.’ 1 Corinthians 3:9 Your soul is God’s seed-field, God’s building; we are labourers toget...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    9._For we are fellow-laborers with God. _Here is the best argument. It is the Lord’s work that we are employed in, and it is to him that we have devoted our labors: hence, as he is faithful and just,...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    They were not natural men; but they were carnal (not spiritual) men, so that the apostle had to feed them with milk and not with meat which was only fit for those that were of full age. That with whic...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR WE ARE LABOURERS TOGETHER WITH GOD,.... The ministers of the Gospel are labourers in the Lord's vineyard, and not loiterers; their work is a laborious work, both to body and mind; which lies in cl...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, _ye are_ God's building. Ver. 9. _For we are labourers, &c._] Let ministers hence learn their, 1. Dignity; 2. Duty. _Fructus honos oner...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _He that planteth and he that watereth are one_ United in affection, and engaged in one general design, the design of glorifying God in the salvation of souls, though their labours may be in some resp...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    LABORERS TOGETHER WITH GOD; he as the cause, we as the instruments. HUSBANDRY-BUILDING; the church is here compared to a cultivated field, in which husbandmen labor and God causes things to grow; and...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The laborers and the foundation:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    FOR WE ARE LABORERS TOGETHER WITH GOD; YE ARE GOD'S HUSBANDRY, YE ARE GOD'S BUILDING....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    But in practical experience the Corinthians were not properly regarding, nor depending on, the wisdom of the Spirit of God, who had been given to them. Paul could not write to them as spiritual, but a...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    HUSBANDRY: Or, tillage...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    FOR WE ARE GOD'S FELLOW-WORKERS: YE ARE GOD'S HUSBANDRY, GOD'S BUILDING. 'God's fellow-workers' -'What an honor to be described as God's helper or co-worker!' (Willis p. 103) 'for we are God's men,...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    5-9 The ministers about whom the Corinthians contended, were only instruments used by God. We should not put ministers into the place of God. He that planteth and he that watereth are one, employed b...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Though compared with God we are nothing, yet our station is no mean station; God works as the principal efficient Cause, we work with God as his instruments; God worketh one way, by his secret influen...

  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

    For we are God's fellow-workers: ye are God's husbandry, God's building [The supreme ownership of God is here emphasized, as is shown by the three possessives. Paul and Apollos were not fellow-workers...

  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

    Shepherd of Hermas Vision Third I answered and said to her, "When, then, will they be useful for the building, Lady? "When the riches that now seduce them have been circumscribed, then will they be o...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Corinthians 3:9 For G1063 are G2070 (G5748) Gods G2316 workers G4904 are G2075 (G5748) Gods G2316 field...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Now he who plants and he who waters are one. But each shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. For we are God's fellow-workers. You are God's prepared land, you are God's building.'...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THAT IS WHY THESE TEACHERS ARE UNITED IN THEIR WORK KNOWING THEY MUST ACCOUNT TO GOD FOR THEIR MINISTRY (3:8-15). Paul now puts all these teachers, including himself, firmly in their place. They are b...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    1 Corinthians 3:9. FAR WE ARE GOD'S FELLOW-WORKERS: YE ARE GOD'S HUSBANDRY, GOD'S BUILDING. After sinking himself, with his fellow-workers, to the level of mere servants, he now lifts them up to the d...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    GOD'S FELLOW-WORKERS (θεου συνεργο). This old word (co-workers of God) has a new dignity here. God is the major partner in the enterprise of each life, but he lets us work with him. Witness the mot...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    1. _And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ._ Their spiritual part had not grown strong, their old carnal nature still had the pr...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    1. _And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ._ The church at Corinth consisted of persons of large education and great abilities....

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Hindrance of a carnal state to spiritual growth. Christian service and its reward. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Apollos, Cephas. CONCLUSION: Our salvation rests solely upon t...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    1 Corinthians 3:1. _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,...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    FOR WE ARE PARTNERS. They are not _rivals,_ as the Corinthians seemed to think. They are God's workers, carrying out God's mission. GOD'S FIELD. Compare Matthew 13:3-30. GOD'S BUILDING. God's temple i...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    CHAPTER III. SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER He endeavours to put an end to the divisions among the Corinthians, by reminding them of their mutual subjection and union in Christ and God. I. He points out t...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    _For we are labourers together with God._ S. Dionysius (_Cælest_. _Hierarch._ c. 3) says, " _A great, an angelic, nay, a Divine dignity is it to become a fellow-worker with God in the conversion of so...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL NOTES_ 1 Corinthians 3:5.—Better reading “_what?_” not “_who?_” Also “_through_.” Not, “As the Lord gave _to every man of you_ the type of teacher he needed”; but, “As the Lord allotted _to...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 3:1 _The carnal conceit of the spiritually immature._ 1 CORINTHIANS 3:1 I… COULD NOT SPEAK UNTO YOU AS UNTO SPIRITUAL. Though softened by the word brethren, there was a cr...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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 unrege...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    God 's. In this and the two following clauses, God is emphatic. "It is of God that ye are the fellow - workers." Husbandry [γ ε ω ρ γ ι ο ν]. Rev., in margin, tilled land. Only here in the New Testame...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE CARNAL AND SPIRITUAL CHRISTIAN 1 Corinthians 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In our last study, we were discussing two kinds of people. One, the unregenerate who had not the Spirit, and the other, the r...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    For we are all fellowlabourers — God's labourers, and fellowlabourers with each other. Ye are God's husbandry — This is the sum of what went before: it is a comprehensive word, taking in both a field,...

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    Observe here, 1. The honourable title put upon the ministers of God, they are labourers or workers together with God. But in what sense are they so? ANS. Not so by any power or their own to produce a...

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