Whoever. The one who stands with such confidence on the grace of God, that he thinks he can sin and get away with it, is in for a fall! The one who turns inward to his own personal experience and trusts in that, will have little to sustain him in the time of hard testing! The only safe way is to put our faith in Christ on the cross!
Verse 1 Corinthians 10:12. _LET HIM THAT THINKETH HE STANDETH_] ο δοκων εσταναι. _Let him who most confidently standeth_-him who has the _fullest conviction_ in his own conscience that his heart is r...
WHEREFORE - As the result of all these admonitions. Let this be the effect of all that we learn from the unhappy self-confidence of the Jews, to admonish us not to put reliance on our own strength. T...
7. WARNINGS AND EXHORTATIONS CHAPTER 10 _ 1. Warnings from Israel's past history. (1 Corinthians 10:4)._ 2. Exhortations. (1 Corinthians 10:15). The same subject is continued with this chapter. The...
From this exposition of his own willingness to waive his rights for the sake of others, closing with the solemn warning that the goal might be missed after all, Paul returns to his main theme, the mea...
THE PERIL OF OVER-CONFIDENCE (1 Corinthians 10:1-13)...
Brothers, I do not want you to forget that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all of them passed through the midst of the sea, and all of them were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the s...
WHEREFORE. So then. TAKE HEED. look to it. Greek. _blepo_. App-133. LEST. App-105. This has passed into. proverb. Figure of speech _Paroemia_. App-6....
_let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall_ A warning against the over-confidence too common among the Corinthians. See chapter 1 throughout; ch. 1 Corinthians 3:18; 1 Corinthians 4:8....
1 Corinthians 10:1-14. The Example of Israel a Warning to Christians In this chapter the direct argument concerning meats offered to idols is resumed in 1 Corinthians 10:14. The first fourteen verses...
Ὁ ΔΟΚΩ͂Ν ἙΣΤΆΝΑΙ. A warning against the over-confidence too common among the Corinthians. See chapter 1 throughout; ch. 1 Corinthians 3:18; 1 Corinthians 4:8. It is not sufficient to have been admitte...
1 Corinthians 10:1-14. THE EXAMPLE OF ISRAEL A WARNING TO CHRISTIANS. In this chapter the direct argument concerning meats offered to idols is resumed in 1 Corinthians 10:14. The first fourteen verses...
_CAUTIONS AGAINST SINFUL PRACTICES 1 CORINTHIANS 10:6-14:_ The purpose of the sad portrait was so that we might have an example of what caused people to be disqualified. Some were disqualified because...
ΏΣΤΕ (G5620) итак, следовательно. Означает, что предостережение, призыв к бдительности, является выводом из предыдущих примеров (Godet). ΔΟΚΏΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΔΟΚΈΩ (G1380) казаться, придержив...
DISCOURSE: 1971 AGAINST SELF-CONFIDENCE 1 Corinthians 10:12. _Let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall_. THE things which are recorded in the Holy Scriptures are written, not for the...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Immorality (1 Corinthians 10:6-13) 6 Now these things are warnings for us, not to desire evil as they did. 7Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, Th...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Text_ 1 Corinthians 10:1-13. For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 2 and were all baptized unt...
Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. THINKETH HE STANDETH - namely, "by faith;" in contrast to (). FALL - from his place in the Church (cf. , "fell"), b...
25 Contestants in the Grecian games had to take an oath that they had been ten months in training, and that they would violate none of the regulations. They lived on a prescribed diet and exercised se...
_(B) FOOD OFFERED TO IDOLS_ In these Chapter s St. Paul answers another question of the Corinthians—as to the lawfulness of eating food which had been offered in sacrifice to idols. This was a very ur...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 10 *WARNINGS FROM ISRAEL’S HISTORY 10:1-13 *SPIRITUAL FOOD AND DRINK 10:1-5 V1 *Brothers and *sisters, I do not want you to forget that a...
WHEREFORE. — This is the practical conclusion of the whole matter. We are to look back on that strange record of splendid privilege and of terrible fall and learn from it the solemn lesson of self-dis...
CHAPTER 15 FALLACIOUS PRESUMPTIONS IN discussing the question regarding "things offered unto idols," Paul is led to treat at large of Christian liberty, a subject to which he was always drawn. And pa...
§ 32. THE MORAL CONTAGION OF IDOLATRY. The fall of the Israel of the Exodus was due to the very temptations now surrounding the Cor [1423] Church to the allurements of idolatry and its attendant impur...
The “examples” just set forth are full of warning (_a_), but with an aspect of (_b_) encouragement besides. (_a_) “So then” ὥστε with impv [1463], as in 1 Corinthians 3:21 (see note) “he that thinks ...
HAVE NO FELLOWSHIP WITH EVIL 1 Corinthians 10:11 By _the end of the world_ is meant the end of one great era and the beginning of another. The Jewish dispensation was passing, the Christian age comin...
A great warning based on an illustration in Israel's history is contained in these words, "Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall." To this warning the apostle adds that th...
A Warning For Us All other ages pointed toward this last great one in which we live. Notice "all" of them received God's blessings and mercy (1 Corinthians 10:1-4), yet "some" turned away (1 Corinthia...
(4) Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. (4) In conclusion he descends to the Corinthians themselves, warning them that they do not please themselves, but rather that t...
_Take heed lest he fall. This regards the doctors and teachers in the new Church of Corinth; who, relying upon their own learning, did not think themselves weak, and presuming too much upon their own...
3. THE APPLICATION OF THESE EXAMPLES TO THE CHURCH OF CORINTH. 1 CORINTHIANS 10:12-22. The parallel which the apostle had proposed to draw between the Israelites and Christians is closed. He now makes...
“Thus, then, let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall! 13. There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted a...
II. THE QUESTION CONSIDERED FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF THE SALVATION OF THE STRONG THEMSELVES. 9:23-10:22. As Paul concluded the preceding development by giving his own example, he introduces the following...
(1) Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; (2) And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in...
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...
_THE CHRISTIAN’S WARNING_ ‘Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.’ 1 Corinthians 10:12 At the time the Apostle wrote it was a very dangerous thing to profess oneself a Christian....
12._Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth _The Apostle concludes from what goes before, that we must not glory in our beginnings or progress, so as to resign ourselves to carelessness and inacti...
The apostle then gives the Corinthians the ways of God with Israel in the wilderness, as instruction with regard to His ways with us, declaring that the things which happened to them were types or fig...
WHEREFORE LET HIM THAT THINKETH HE STANDETH,.... Since the Jewish fathers, who enjoyed such peculiar favours and eminent privileges, had such various judgments inflicted on them; since they stood not,...
Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. Ver. 12. _That thinks he stands_] If he do but think so, if he be no more than a seemer, he will fall at length into hell's mouth....
_Now all these things_ These various calamitous events; _happened unto them for ensamples_ That we might learn wisdom at their expense, and not trust to external privileges, while we go on in a course...
HIM THAT THINKETH HE STANDETH; securely in the favor of God. LEST HE FALL; into sin, and perish....
The application of the lesson:...
WHEREFORE, LET HIM THAT THINKETH HE STANDETH TAKE HEED LEST HE FALL....
Just as, in the end of chapter 9, Paul shows himself willing to submit to a serious test as to the reality of his Christianity, so in the first of chapter 10 it is plain that all who claim the place o...
WHEREFORE LET HIM THAT THINKETH HE STANDETH TAKE HEED LEST HE FALL. 'thinketh he standeth' -'who imagines that he is standing so securely' (Mon) Obviously, this warning is addressed to those who con...
6-14 Carnal desires gain strength by indulgence, therefore should be checked in their first rise. Let us fear the sins of Israel, if we would shun their plagues. And it is but just to fear, that such...
LET HIM THAT THINKETH HE STANDETH, either in a right and sound judgment and opinion of things, or in a state of favour with God, or confirmed in a holy course of life and conversation; standeth in gra...
Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. [The weaknesses of saints in former days, notwithstanding their privileges, should warn us of our own frailty lest we presume to dal...
Cyprian Epistle LI also that, rebuking the haughty, and breaking down their arrogance, he says in his epistle, "Let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall; "[30] Cyprian Treatise XII...
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'For this reason let him who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.' So from all this the general principle arises that we should beware of complacency. We may feel that we are of such stature...
1 Corinthians 10:12. WHEREFORE LET HIM THAT THINKETH HE STANDETH TAKE HEED LEST HE FALL for since our greatest danger lies in a presumptuous, confidence of our safety (of which Peter's fall is the gre...
It was impossible for Christians in almost any Greek or Roman colony, and least of all at Corinth, to avoid coming frequently in contact with idolatrous practices in various and ensnaring forms. In wr...
The substance of this closing portion of the digression may be thus expressed: ‘I have told you of the disastrous issue too sure to follow on a fearless, self-confident assertion of your Christian lib...
LEST HE FALL (μη πεση). Negative purpose with μη and second aorist active subjunctive of πιπτω....
1 Corinthians 10:1. _Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; and were all baptized unto Moses in the...
1 Corinthians 10:1. _Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; and were all baptized unto Moses in the...
CONTENTS: Israel in the wilderness, a warning example. Fellowship of the Lord's table demands separation. Law of love in relation to eating and drinking. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Moses. CONCLU...
1 Corinthians 10:1. _I would not have you ignorant_ of the grand point, the foundation of the Hebrew religion; _that our fathers,_ for such was the usual language of the jews and proselytes respecting...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 10:12 THINKS THAT HE STANDS. Perhaps a reference to the Corinthians’ mistaken belief that they have the right to eat in an idol’s temple ...
CHAPTER 10 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER From speaking of the contest, in which those who deny themselves and strive lawfully are rewarded, and in which the slothful and self-indulgent are condemned and pu...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 1 Corinthians 10:1.—Notice “_for_,” true reading, connecting closely with ix. _ult. Q.d_. “I am not secure from becoming a ‘castaway’; you are not yet sure of the prize; _for_ it is e...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 10:1 _Warnings against over confidence in relation to idolatry and other temptations._ 1 CORINTHIANS 10:1 MOREOVER; rather, _for. _He has just shown them, by his own ex
Moreover, brethren, I would not that you should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and passed through the sea (1 Corinthians 10:1); Now he is talking about their forefathers w...
1 Corinthians 4:6; 1 Corinthians 8:2; Matthew 26:33; Matthew 26:34;...
TYPES AND ANALOGIES 1 Corinthians 10:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS By the way of introduction to this study upon "types and analogies," we wish to suggest several things, based upon the following statement,...
The common translation runs, Let him that thinketh he standeth; but the word translated thinketh, most certainly strengthens, rather than weakens, the sense....
These words are an inference which our apostle draws from the foregoing discourse. Seeing that so many who enjoyed great privileges among the Jews, were yet punished greatly for their sins; seeing tha...