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Mark Dunagan Commentaries

1 Corinthians 3:23

and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.

'ye are Christ's' -'Here is the true slogan which abolishes all others...'You' means all of the Corinthians as one body. This wipes out the "I" in the old slogans, one individual over against the others..' (Lenski p. 158)

'It is not that "all things are yours" willy-nilly, or selfishly...They are yours because you belong to Christ; and all things are his (1 Corinthians 15:23). Thus it is only in him that the believer possesses all things..' (Fee pp. 154-155)

'Hence not the properly of his servants' (McGarvey p. 66)

'And what is their response to be? You are Christ's! Act like it.' (McGuiggan p. 54)

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