1 Corinthians 1:31. that according as it is written (Jeremiah 9:23, abridged), He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. Well may we ask with the apostle elsewhere, Where is boasting, then? It is excluded. By what law on what principle? Why, on every principle, and at every avenue, by this method of peerless wisdom.'
Verse 1 Corinthians 1:31. _ACCORDING AS IT IS WRITTEN_] In Jeremiah 9:23: _Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise_ man _glory in his wisdom,_ _neither let the mighty_ man _glory in his might; let not...
AS IT IS WRITTEN - This is evidently a quotation made from Jeremiah 9:23. It is not made literally; but the apostle has “condensed” the sense of the prophet into a few words, and has retained essentia...
2. CONTRASTS. CHAPTER 1:10-4). CHAPTER 1:10-31. _ 1. Divisions rebuked. (1 Corinthians 1:10)._ 2. The Cross of Christ, the Power of God. (1 Corinthians 1:17). The section which begins, after the in...
1 CORINTHIANS 1:18 TO 1 CORINTHIANS 2:5. THE CROSS, FOLLY TO THE WORLD, IS THE POWER AND WISDOM OF GOD. Paul now explains and justifies 1 Corinthians 1:17_ b_, which to Greek readers must have soun
AN APOSTOLIC INTRODUCTION (1 Corinthians 1:1-3)...
Brothers, just look at the way in which you have been called. You can see at once that not many wise men--by human standards--not many powerful men, not many high-born men have been called. But God ha...
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_He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord_ The whole work of salvation is of God. The Corinthians, like many others since, were inclined to take some of the credit to themselves. The Apostle remind...
God's Message not intended to flatter the pride of man 18. _For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God_ Literally, TO THEM TH...
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GOD’S MESSAGE NOT INTENDED TO FLATTER THE PRIDE OF MAN...
'ΊΝΑ (G2443) с _conj._, используется здесь в эллиптическом выражении: "чтобы это могло быть, поступайте так" (BD, 255). ΓΈΓΡΑΠΤΑΙ _perf. ind. pass._, _см._ 1 Corinthians 1:19. ΚΑΥΧΏΜΈΝΟΣ _praes. med...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The Word of the Cross and the Wisdom of the World_ (18-31) _Text_ 1 Corinthians 1:18-31. For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us who are save...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS Unity Occasions Glory to God Alone (1 Corinthians 1:26-31) 26 For consider your call, brethren, not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not...
That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. GLORY IN THE LORD (Jeremiah 9:23) - not in the flesh, nor in the world (). In contrast to morbid slavish self-abasemen...
21 To this day the great, the noble, and the wise are a small minority among the true saints of God. It is a matter of extreme thankfulness that this is so. If high birth or wisdom or any other attain...
1:31 written, (i-6) See Isaiah 45:25 ; Jeremiah 9:24 . Lord. (k-15) _ Kurios_ without the article, for 'Jehovah.'...
HE THAT GLORIETH] There was nothing of which human wisdom could boast. Philosophy had helped a few intellectual minds, but had never touched the ordinary man. But the Cross made its appeal to the lowl...
GREETING AND THANKSGIVING. PARTISANSHIP IN THE CHURCH St. Paul, after greeting the Church and giving thanks for its spiritual gifts, rebukes the preference for various teachers which was prevalent am...
PARAPHRASE. 'Look at the state of matters in your own Church. There are few among you eminent in the eyes of the world. (27-29) But it is just what is weak and lowly and of no account according to wor...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ ABOUT THIS LETTER CORINTH Corinth was an important city. It was on a very narrow section of land (called an ‘isthmus’) in the southern part of Gre...
THAT. — So that it might be as the prophet wrote, “He that boasteth, let him boast in the Lord.” This is not a literal quotation, but only an adaptation and paraphrase from the LXX. of Jeremiah 9:23....
CHAPTER 4 THE FOOLISHNESS OF PREACHING In the preceding section of this Epistle Paul introduced the subject which was prominent in his thoughts as he wrote: the divided state of the Corinthian Churc...
“In order that, as it stands written, he who glories, _in the Lord_ let him glory;” by “the Lord” the readers could only understand _Christ_, already five times thus titled; so, manifestly, in 2 Corin...
§ 5. THE OBJECTS OF THE GOSPEL CALL. § 4 has shown that the Gospel does not come ἐν σοφίᾳ λόγου (1 Corinthians 1:17 b) by _the method of its operation;_ this will further be evidenced by _the status o...
GOD'S GLORY IN MEN'S WEAKNESS 1 Corinthians 1:26; 1 Corinthians 2:1 Like the sons of Jesse before Samuel, so do the successive regiments on which the world relies pass before Christ. The wise, the mi...
The epistle is to the Church. Its messages are only for those who have been brought into fellowship with Jesus Christ. The character of the Church is indicated in the words, "sanctified in Christ Jesu...
Jesus Christ, Wisdom from God So, Paul said, not many of those who would be called wise, or powerful or noblemen followed Jesus. Most uprisings are successful because the upper crust leaders join and...
That, according as it is written, (b) He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. (b) Let him yield all to God and give him thanks: and so by this place is man's free will beaten down, which the pap...
In 1 Corinthians 1:29 all human glorying has been declared to be excluded; in this, the apostle invites the new people, the wise and mighty whom God has raised up by preaching, to strike up a song of...
“But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who, on the part of God, has been made unto us wisdom, as also righteousness and sanctification and redemption; 31. that, according as it is written, He that glorie...
REFLECTIONS READER! let you and I, as we enter upon the perusal of this inspired Book of God the Holy Ghost, first pause, and bless the Almighty Author of it for giving so sweet and precious a portion...
(30) But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: (31) That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory...
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...
31._He that glorieth let him glory in the Lord _Mark the end that God has in view in bestowing all things upon us in Christ — that we may not claim any merit to ourselves, but may give him all the pra...
I will now turn back to take up the thread of the contents of this epistle from the beginning. Paul was an apostle by the will of God. That was his authority, however it might be with others. Moreover...
THAT, ACCORDING AS IT IS WRITTEN,.... Jeremiah 9:23. HE THAT GLORIETH, LET HIM GLORY IN THE LORD; not in his own wisdom, riches, and strength; but in Christ, as his wisdom, righteousness, sanctificat...
That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. Ver. 31. _Glory in the Lord_] Acquiesce and exult in him, which is the end why God hath done all this for us in Christ....
_But of him_ Of his free mercy and grace; _are ye in Christ Jesus_ Ingrafted into him, and therefore possessed of an interest in him, and union with him; _who of God_ The original source of our salvat...
The status of the believers:...
THAT, ACCORDING AS IT IS WRITTEN, HE THAT GLORIES, LET HIM GLORY IN THE LORD. The miraculous working of the power and wisdom of God is exemplified in the case of the Corinthian Christians themselves....
Paul writes here as "a called apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God." As such, it is the authoritative word of God he communicates, that which requires the subjection and obedience of all the Chu...
26-31 God did not choose philosophers, nor orators, nor statesmen, nor men of wealth, and power, and interest in the world, to publish the gospel of grace and peace. He best judges what men and what...
God doth this, or hath done this, for this end, that man should have nothing to glory in, neither wisdom, nor righteousness, nor sanctification, nor redemption, but should _glory in the Lord; _ acknow...
that, according as it is written [Jeremiah 9:24], _He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord_. [By the power of God, therefore, and not by the human wisdom of preachers, were the Corinthians brought...
1 Clement Let us therefore, brethren, be of humble mind, laying aside all haughtiness, and pride, and foolishness, and angry feelings; and let us act according to that which is written (for the Holy...
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‘But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who has become to us wisdom from God, even righteousness, sanctification and redemption. That according as it is written, “He who glories, let him glory in the Lor...
THAT (ινα). Probably ellipse (γενητα to be supplied) as is common in Paul's Epistles (2 Thessalonians 2:3; 2 Corinthians 8:13; Galatians 1:20;...
LORD Jehovah. (Jeremiah 9:24)....
1 Corinthians 1:30 Righteousness not of Us, but in Us. In every age of the Church, not in the primitive age only, Christians have been tempted to pride themselves on their gifts, or at least to forge...
1, 2. _Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth,_ -Note the humility of Paul in associating with hi...
In this chapter the apostle magnifies the cross of his Lord, as God's greatest gift to the world; and as the highest glory of God's self-revelation to men. He praises God that the Corinthian Christian...
CONTENTS: Christians' position in grace. The unspiritual condition of the Corinthian saints. Danger of following human leaders and exulting in human wisdom. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul, Sosthenes, A...
1 Corinthians 1:1. _Paul, called to be an apostle._ It was proper to mention this, else he would have had no title to address his letter to the Corinthians, and the catholic church, or saints in gener...
AS THE SCRIPTURE SAYS. [Jeremiah 9:23.] By "the Lord," we can only understand Christ. Whoever wants to boast cannot boast in the messengers who proclaimed the Good News to them, but in the Lord Jesus...
_For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel._ PAUL’S PREACHING I. It exalted the Cross of Christ as the central element of the gospel. The apostle does not teach that truths associat...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 1:26 Those who believed the gospel were FOOLISH by the world’s standards. God transformed them into his people by saving them. They must not boast in ancestry, acco...
RANSLATED AND EDITED BY W. F. COBB, D.D. EDINBURGH: JOHN GRANT 31 George IV. Bridge 1908 SAINT PAUL'S FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS EDITORS PREFACE In translating the Comments of Cornelius...
_That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord._ He is quoting not the words but the sense of Jeremiah 9:23. So Ambrose, Theophylact, Anselm, St, Thomas. In Jeremiah th...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 1 Corinthians 1:19.— Isaiah 29:14 (nearly as LXX.), and a free imitation of Isaiah 30:18. FOR.—Sustains the _general drift_ of...
EXPOSITION The oldest superscription was probably, "To the Corinthians, the first (Πρὸς Κορινθίους πρώτη)." This is found in א, A, B, C, D. 1 CORINTHIANS 1:1 _The_ _greeting. _An opening salutati...
Let's turn to I Corinthians, chapter 1. Paul introduces himself as the writer with Sosthenes in the first verse. Paul, called an apostle (1 Corinthians 1:1) Notice the words to be are in italics. Th...
1 Chronicles 16:10; 1 Chronicles 16:35; 2 Corinthians 10:17; Galatians 6:13;...
He that glorieth, etc. From Jeremiah 9:23; Jeremiah 9:24, abridged after the Septuagint....
Let him glory in the Lord — Not in himself, not in the flesh, not in the world. Jeremiah 9:23...