he that planteth and he that watereth are one As though to make his depreciation of man as emphatic as possible, the Apostle uses the neuter gender here. The instruments are one thing, parts of a vast piece of machinery which God has put in motion for the salvation of the world. As channels of Divine grace it is our duty to forget their personality.
Verse 1 Corinthians 3:8. _HE THAT PLANTETH AND HE THAT WATERETH ARE ONE_] Both Paul and Apollos have received the same doctrine, preach the same doctrine, and labour to promote the glory of God in the...
ARE ONE - ἕν εἰσιν hen eisin. They are not the same person; but they are one in the following respects: (1) They are united in reference to the same work. Though they are engaged in different thing...
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
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...
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...
THE SUPREME IMPORTANCE OF GOD (1 Corinthians 3:1-9)...
ONE. one thing. Both belong to the same company of servants, of whom God is the Master. HIS OWN. Emph. Greek. _idios._ ACCORDING TO. App-104....
CHRISTIAN MINISTERS ONLY LABOURERS OF MORE OR LESS EFFICIENCY, THE SUBSTANTIAL WORK BEING GOD’S...
Ὁ ΦΥΤΕΎΩΝ ΔῈ ΚΑῚ Ὁ ΠΟΤΊΖΩΝ ἝΝ ΕἸΣΙΝ. As though to make his depreciation of man as emphatic as possible, the Apostle uses the neuter gender here. The instruments are _one thing_, parts of a vast piece...
_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...
ΕΝ (G1520) один; _n._ одно. Цель, результат и мотивирующая сила их работы идентичны (Barrett), ΜΙΣΘΌΣ (G3408) вознаграждение, плата. Об идее вознаграждения за труды ϋΜ. SB 4:484-500; TDNT; DPL, 81920...
ARE ONE— This is another cogent argument against division,—that though their labours were different, and their rewards proportionable, yet they had in the general one office, and were employed as _wor...
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...
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...
Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. ONE - one in standing before God; able to do nothing without God. It is on...
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...
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...
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...
ONE] lit. 'one thing,' i.e. having a common aim....
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...
ARE ONE. — The planter and the waterer are one in that they are both working in the same cause. “But,” says the Apostle (not “and,” as in our version), “each man shall receive his own reward from God,...
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...
§ 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...
In comparison with God, Ap. and P. are simply nothing (1 Corinthians 3:7): in relation to each other they are not rivals, as their Cor [516] favourers would make them (1 Corinthians 3:4): “But the pla...
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...
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...
Increase Comes From God Paul wanted to know what it was about Apollos and himself that could cause division. They were both "ministers," which is the same word translated "deacons" in Acts 6:2 and me...
That planteth you by your first conversion. Apollo watered you by preaching the same truths. --- He that planteth and watered, are one, aim at one and the same end. (Witham) --- According to his own l...
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...
“Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one, but every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.” The δέ is here a particle of transition, but with a shade of contrast: “ _N...
(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...
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...
8._He that planteth, and he that watereth are one _He shows farther, from another consideration, that the Corinthians are greatly to blame in abusing, with a view to maintain their own sects and parti...
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...
NOW HE THAT PLANTETH, AND HE THAT WATERETH ARE ONE,.... Not in every respect so; they were different as men, they were not the same individual persons, nor in the same office; Paul was an apostle, Apo...
Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. Ver. 8. _And he that watereth are one_] Why then are not you at one? Should...
_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...
ARE ONE; they are engaged in one work, and for the promotion of one end, the glory of God, in the salvation of men. It is not proper, then, that they should be set up as the heads of different parties...
All ministers of Christ of equal rank:...
NOW HE THAT PLANTS AND HE THAT WATERS ARE ONE; AND EVERY MAN SHALL RECEIVE HIS OWN REWARD ACCORDING TO HIS OWN LABOR. Paul here repeats his chief complaint against the Corinthian Christians, that of y...
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...
NOW HE THAT PLANTETH AND HE THAT WATERETH ARE ONE: BUT EACH SHALL RECEIVE HIS OWN REWARD ACCORDING TO HIS OWN LABOR. 'are one' -'are working as. team, with the same aim' (Tay) 'These servants, Paul a...
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...
The ministers of Christ, though one be used in planting and another in watering, one in laying the foundation and another in building thereupon, yet _are one; _ one in their office and work, one in th...
Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one [with respect to their purposes, or the ends for which they labor: hence, not rivals]: _but each shall receive his own reward according to his own lab...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I "But every one shall receive his own reward, according to his own work. For we are God's husbandmen, God's husbandry. Ye are God's building,"[16] Tertullian On M...
1 Corinthians 3:8 Now G1161 plants G5452 (G5723) and G2532 waters G4222 (G5723) are G1526 (G5748) one...
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...
‘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.'...
1 Corinthians 3:8. NOW HE THAT PLANTETH AND HE THAT WATERETH ARE ONE _Gr._ ‘one thing,' co-operating to one end. BUT EACH SHALL RECEIVE HIS OWN REWARD ACCORDING TO HIS OWN WORK. While the work is one...
ARE ONE (εν εισιν). The neuter singular again (εν, not εις) as with the interrogative τ and the indefinite τ. By this bold metaphor which Paul expands he shows how the planter and the waterer work...
ONE Paul refutes the notion that he and Cephas and Apollos are at variance, mere theologians and rival founders of sects: they are "one." (1 Corinthians 3:22); (1 Corinthians 16:12). REWARD ...
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...
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....
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...
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,...
THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE. That is, in rank or importance. The work of each is equally important, and both are God's servants. Neither one deserves any special honor. GOD WILL REWARD EACH ONE. Paul contr...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 3:8 WAGES ACCORDING TO HIS LABOR. See note on vv. 14–15. ⇐
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...
_Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one._ They are one, say S. Thomas, Anselm, and others, in office and one in their ministry, _i.e._, they are both alike ministers. Therefore one is not t...
_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...
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...
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...
1 Corinthians 15:58; 1 Corinthians 3:9; 1 Corinthians 4:5; 1 Corinthians 4:6;...
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...
But he that planteth and he that watereth are one — Which is another argument against division. Though their labours are different. they are all employed in one general work, — the saving souls. Hence...
HE THAT PLANTETH AND HE THAT WATERETH ARE ONE: that is, in their design and scope, in the aim and end of their ministry; therefore they should not be factiously divided, either among themselves or by...