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Verse 1 Corinthians 4:12. _WORKING WITH OUR OWN HANDS_] They were
obliged to labour in order to supply themselves with the necessaries
of life while preaching the Gospel to others. This, no doubt, was...
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AND LABOUR ... - This Paul often did. See the note at Acts 18:3;
compare Acts 20:34; 1Th 2:9. 2 Thessalonians 3:8.
Being revi
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CHAPTER 4
_ 1. Servants of Christ and Stewards of the Mysteries of God. (1
Corinthians 4:1)._
2. Contrast Between Self-Glorification and Humiliation. (1 Corinthians
4:6).
3. Admonition to Beloved Ch...
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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...
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THE THREE JUDGMENTS (1 Corinthians 4:1-5)...
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Brothers, I have transferred these things by way of illustration to
myself and to Apollos, so that through us you may learn to observe the
principle of not going beyond that which is written, so that...
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WORKING, &C. See Acts 18:3; Acts 20:34. 1Th 2:9. 2 Thessalonians 3:8.
REVILED. Greek. _loidoreo._ See John 9:28....
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_and labour, working with our own hands_ Consult Paley, _Horae
Paulinae_, 1st Ep. to Corinthians, No. vi, for a full discussion of
the remarkable coincidence between this passage and the speech to the...
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Contrast between the Corinthian Teachers and St Paul
8. _Now ye are full, now ye are rich_ Here we have one of the sudden
turns of feeling so remarkable in the Apostle's style. Abruptly
breaking off a...
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_A CAUTION AGAINST SINFUL PRIDE 1 CORINTHIANS 4:7-13:_ The faithless
stewards were acting like they were the source of the good things they
possessed. These faithless stewards were filled with destruc...
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ΚΟΠΙΏΜΕΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΚΟΠΙΆΩ (G2872)
трудиться, работать, заниматься
тяжелым трудом, работать до
изнеможения (TLNT; TDNT).
ΕΡΓΑΖΌΜΕΝΟΙ _praes. med. (dep.) part. от_
ΕΡΓΆΖΟΜΑΙ (G2038) работат...
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DISCOURSE: 1954
PAUL’S MEEKNESS
1 Corinthians 4:12. _Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we
suffer it: being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the
earth, and are the offscouring...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
SECTION 2
Pompousness (1 Corinthians 4:6-13)
6 I have applied all this to myself and Apollos for your benefit,
brethren, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written,...
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And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless;
being persecuted, we suffer it:
WORKING WITH OUR OWN HANDS - namely, "even unto this present hour"
(): so continuous are my hardship...
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8 The sharp contrast between the carnal Corinthians and the faithful
apostle loses none of its force if we compare him with the church of
today. We need not go outside of Protestantism to find churche...
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CHRISTIAN TEACHERS ONLY THE INSTRUMENTS OF GOD
The folly and sin of quarrelling about different teachers who are but
servants of Christ and responsible to Him....
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PARAPHRASE. 'In speaking of the folly of these divisions I have used
only the names of Apollos and myself; but the same principles apply to
your attitude to all your teachers. (7) Why do some of you p...
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WORKING WITH OUR OWN HANDS] St. Paul's constant practice: cp. Acts
18:3; Acts 20:34; 1 Corinthians 9:15; 1 Thessalonians 2:9;...
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SERVANTS OF CHRIST
1 CORINTHIANS
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 4
PAUL THE SERVANT 4:1-5
V1 This is how people should think about us. We are Christ’s
servants. We are *stewards (keepers) of the secrets...
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AND LABOUR. — While at Ephesus, whence this letter was written, the
Apostle supported himself by working with Aquila and Priscilla at
tent-making. This labour was no recreation or pastime with St. Pau...
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CHAPTER 7
THE MINISTRY
So keenly alive is Paul to the danger and folly of party spirit in the
Church, that he has still one more word of rebuke to utter. He has
shown the Corinthians that to give the...
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§ 13. DISCIPLES ABOVE THEIR MASTER. What the Ap. has written, from 1
Corinthians 3:3 onwards, turns on the relations between himself and
Apollos; but it has a wide application to the state of feeling...
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1 Corinthians 4:11-12 _a_. ἄχρι τῆς ἄρτι ὥρας …
ταῖς ἰδίαις χερσὶν describes the ἄτιμοι,
reduced to this position by the world's contempt and with no means of
winning its respect a life at the farthes...
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STEWARDS RESPONSIBLE TO THEIR LORD
1 Corinthians 4:1
At the most the ministers or teachers of God's Gospel are but stewards
of the hidden things of God, according to Matthew 13:51. They ought
not to...
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Christian teachers are "ministers of Christ." That defines their
responsibility. They are "stewards of the mysteries of God." That
defines their work. What dignity does this double statement suggest?...
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Paul's View of the Apostles' Position
In contrast to the Corinthians' lofty thoughts of themselves, Paul
gives his thoughts on the apostles' state. They suffered persecution
and would continue to suff...
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“Even unto this present hour we both hunger and thirst, are naked,
buffeted, without certain dwelling - place; 12. labour, working with
our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suf...
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4. PRIDE THE FIRST CAUSE OF THE EVIL. 4:6-21.
Here is the final and general application of the whole first part,
relating to the divisions which had arisen in the Church. The apostle,
after reminding...
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(6)And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to
myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to
think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be...
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12.When he says that _while persecuted he suffers it, _and that he
_prays _for his _revilers_, he intimates that he is not merely
afflicted and abased by God, by means of the cross, but is also
endowe...
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As for the apostle and the labourers, they were to consider them as
stewards employed by the Lord. And it was to Him that Paul committed
the judgment of his conduct. He cared little for the judgment m...
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AND LABOUR, WORKING WITH OUR OWN HANDS,.... As the apostle did at
Corinth, Acts 18:3 and elsewhere; partly to minister to his own
necessities, and those of others; and partly that he might not be
burd...
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And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being
persecuted, we suffer it:
Ver. 12. _And labour, working, &c._] Whereas they might object, Are
you hungry, thirsty, naked? It is...
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_We are fools_ In the account of the world, _for Christ's sake_
Because we expose ourselves to so many dangers and sufferings for his
cause: or because we preach the plain truths of the gospel, and af...
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AND LABOR, WORKING WITH OUR OWN HANDS; BEING REVILED, WE BLESS; BEING
PERSECUTED, WE SUFFER IT;...
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The status of the heralds of salvation:...
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But while we are not to exalt a ministering servant, no more are we to
despise him or his work. The apostles should certainly be recognized
for what they actually were, "ministers of Christ, and stewa...
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AND WE TOIL, WORKING WITH OUR OWN HANDS: BEING REVILED, WE BLESS;
BEING PERSECUTED, WE ENDURE;
'toil' -'toil to exhaustion' (Ber). 'Common late verb for weariness in
toil.' (Robertson p. 108) 'We ha...
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7-13 We have no reason to be proud; all we have, or are, or do, that
is good, is owing to the free and rich grace of God. A sinner snatched
from destruction by sovereign grace alone, must be very abs...
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AND LABOUR, WORKING WITH OUR HANDS; we do not only labour in the word
and doctrine, but we labour with our hands, that we might not be
burdensome to the church, our hands ministering to our necessitie...
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and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless [Luke
6:27; 1 Peter 2:23]; _being persecuted, we endure_;...
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Origen Against Celsus Book V
We, however, who are followers of the word of Jesus, and have
exercised ourselves in thinking, and saying, and doing what is in
harmony with His words, "when reviled, ble...
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1 Corinthians 4:12 And G2532 labor G2872 (G5719) working G2038 (G5740)
own G2398 hands G5495 reviled G3058
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THOSE WHO ARE TRUE TO THE WORD OF THE CROSS ENDURE SUFFERING FOR
CHRIST. THE CORINTHIANS NEED TO RE-EXAMINE THEIR FOUNDATIONS (4:6-13).
Paul now stresses that all that he has said has been with them...
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1 Corinthians 4:12. AND WE TOIL, WORKING WITH OUR OWN HANDS see Acts
18:3; Acts 20:34; 1 Thessalonians 2:9;...
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WE TOIL
(κοπιωμεν). Common late verb for weariness in toil (Luke
5:5),WORKING WITH OUR OWN HANDS
(εργαζομενο ταις ιδιαις χερσιν) instrumental
case χερσιν and not simply for himself but also for Aq...
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CONTENTS: Judgment of Christ's servants not committed to man.
Apostolic example of patience and humility.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Apollos, Timothy.
CONCLUSION: God's steward awaits no Judgmen...
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1 Corinthians 4:1. _Let a man,_ yea every one of you, however biassed
by parties, _so account of us,_ though servants for your sakes, _as
ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God,_ as...
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WE WORK HARD. See note on 1 Corinthians 9:6....
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_We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ._
THE FOLLY OF PAUL
The better to serve Christ, Paul refrained from making acquirement of
knowledge his chief aim. And many others have reno...
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_Now ye are full … rich … as kings._
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE COUNTERFEIT AND THE REAL CHRISTIAN
I. The counterfeit--
1. Is so replenished with Divine knowledge that he needs no teacher.
2. Is s...
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1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 4:10 WE ARE FOOLS FOR CHRIST’S
SAKE. Measured by the Corinthians’ “royal” standards (v. 1
Corinthians 4:8),
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CHAPTER IV.
SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER
S. Paul proceeds in his task of uprooting the divisions, the pride,
and the boasting of the Corinthians, and especially of some of their
teachers who held him in...
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_Being_ _reviled, we bless._ Infidels and Jews mock us, and call down
imprecations on us, saying, "Let these new preachers of a crucified
God be slain, let then perish and hang on the accursed cross....
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
1 Corinthians 4:6.—From 1 Corinthians 3:5 he has discussed what
applied to all the factions and their leaders, and even more to the
others than to the so-called Pauline and Apollonian...
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EXPOSITION
1 CORINTHIANS 4:1
_Judgments, human and Divine, respecting ministers._
1 CORINTHIANS 4:1
LET A MAN SO ACCOUNT OF US. Since it is inevitable that Christians
should form some estimate of...
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Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and
stewards of the mysteries of God (1 Corinthians 4:1).
Ministers of Christ, the Greek word there is the under-rowers. They
were the guys d...
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1 Corinthians 9:6; 1 Peter 2:23; 1 Peter 3:14; 1 Peter 3:9; 1 Peter
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Labor [κ ο π ι ω μ ε ν]. Rev., toil. Unto weariness. See on
Luke 5:5. Reviled [λ ο ι δ ο ρ ο υ μ ε ν ο ι]. See on
Acts 23:4.
We bless [ε υ λ ο γ ο υ μ ε ν]. See on blessed, John 12:13.
We suffer [α...
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CHRISTIAN STEWARDSHIP
1 Corinthians 4:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
1. The names surrounding discipleship. Our chapter presents before us
several statements which remind us of the responsibility and
privile...
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We bless — suffer it — intreat — We do not return revilings,
persecution, defamation; nothing but blessing....