Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)
1 Corinthians 3:19
1 Corinthians 3:19. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God (see on ch. 1 Corinthians 1:20).
For it is written (Job 5:13), He that taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
1 Corinthians 3:19. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God (see on ch. 1 Corinthians 1:20).
For it is written (Job 5:13), He that taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
Verse 19. _THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD_] Whether it be the pretended deep and occult wisdom of the rabbins, or the wire-drawn speculations of the Grecian philosophers, _is foolishness with God_; for as...
FOR THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD - That which is esteemed to be wisdom by the people of this world on the subject of religion. It does not mean that true wisdom is foolishness with him. It does not mean t...
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
IT IS A FALSE WISDOM THAT PITS ONE LEADER AGAINST ANOTHER: ALL ARE YOURS. Paul warns against the self-deception which causes a man to overrate his own judgment. Better renounce his worldly wisdom, whi...
THE SUPREME IMPORTANCE OF GOD (1 Corinthians 3:1-9)...
Do you not know that you are God's temple, and that the Spirit of God has his dwelling place in you? If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for the temple of God is holy and you a...
WORLD. Greek. _kosmos._ App-129. FOOLISHNESS. Greek. _moria._ See 1 Corinthians 1:18. WITH. App-104. IS. has been. TAKETH. Greek. _drassomai._ Only here. Found in the Septuagint, but not in Job 5:...
_it is written_ In Job 5:13....
Christian Ministers only labourers of more or less efficiency, the substantial work being God's 6. _I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase_ The Apostle would lead his converts to r...
ΓΈΓΡΑΠΤΑΙ. In Job 5:13. ΔΡΑΣΣΌΜΕΝΟΣ. Stronger than _take_, A.V. Rather seize. ἘΝ ΤΗ͂Ι ΠΑΝΟΥΡΓΊΑΙ ΑΥ̓ΤΩ͂Ν. Literally, in their SCHEMING. The word represents the numberless devices of the man who is w...
CHRISTIAN MINISTERS ONLY LABOURERS OF MORE OR LESS EFFICIENCY, THE SUBSTANTIAL WORK BEING GOD’S...
_THE TEMPLE IS THE CHURCH 1 CORINTHIANS 3:16-23:_ As members of the church we should be spiritual people because the church of Christ is the Holy Temple of God. His Spirit dwells in this temple. God w...
ΠΑΡΆ (G3863) с _dat._ кроме, с, в присутствии (DM, 108; NIDNTT, 3:1201-3). ΓΈΓΡΑΠΤΑΙ _perf. ind. pass. от_ ΓΡΆΦΩ (G1125) писать. _Perf._ указывает на длительный авторитет написанного документа (ММ),...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Concludes With Spiritual Compensation (1 Corinthians 3:18-23) 18 Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a foo...
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. WITH GOD - in the judgment of God. IT IS WRITTEN - in Job 5:13. This formula...
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...
3:19 written, (g-14) See Job 5:13 ....
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. 'Do not deceive yourselves; but if there be any of you priding himself on his worldly wisdom let him quickly unlearn it, that he may learn the true wisdom. (19, 20) For as Holy Scripture t...
THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD] The conceit and vanity of men are folly with God. The results of this folly in Christian teachers are indicated in 1 Corinthians 3:15; 1 Corinthians 3:17. IT IS WRITTEN] Job...
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...
WITH GOD. — Better, _in the sight of God_ (Romans 2:13). FOR IT IS WRITTEN. — By two passages, one from Job, and the other from the Psalms, St. Paul proves the truth of his previous assertion regardin...
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...
§ 11. THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD. Affectation of philosophy, “the wisdom of the world,” which P. has repudiated on behalf of the Gospel (1 Corinthians 1:2) was at the bottom of the Cor [606] troubles. T...
_a_ gives the reason why the philosophy of the times must be renounced by the aspirant to Christian wisdom: “For the wisdom of the world is folly with God” (= 1 Corinthians 1:20); and since it is foll...
BUILD ON THE SURE FOUNDATION 1 Corinthians 3:10 We are called upon to contribute our share to the building of saved souls which is rising through the ages, to be an habitation of God through the Spir...
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...
True Wisdom True wisdom, according to the apostle Paul, comes in learning to be a fool in the eyes of this world's wise (Acts 2:24). Pride in one's own intellectual abilities can keep him from learnin...
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He (g) taketh the wise in their own craftiness. (g) Be they ever so crafty, yet the Lord will take them when he will discover...
Let no man deceive himself. He next precautions them against themselves, and admonishes them to be upon their guard against curiosity, presumption, and self-love, and tells them to undervalue all othe...
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...
“For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, ‘He that taketh the wise in their craftiness.' 20. And again, ‘The Lord knoweth the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain...
(16) Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? (17) If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple...
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...
19._For the wisdom of this world _This is an argument taken from things opposite. To maintain the one is to overturn the other. As, therefore, _the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God_, it fo...
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...
FOR THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD IS FOOLISHNESS WITH GOD,.... The wisdom of the Jewish, or Gentile world. It is had in no account with him; it is despised and neglected by him; he makes it foolish, destro...
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. Ver. 19. _He taketh the wise_] ο δρασσομενος, those natural brute beasts, made to...
_Let no man deceive himself_ Neither teacher, by propagating errors through pride of his own understanding; nor hearers, by a factious preferring of one above another for his gifts. _If any man among...
THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD; that of which worldly men are proud, and in which they glory. FOR IT IS WRITTEN; JOB 5:12-13....
FOR THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD IS FOOLISHNESS WITH GOD. FOR IT IS WRITTEN, HE TAKETH THE WISE IN THEIR OWN CRAFTINESS....
Every Christian a temple of God:...
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...
FOR THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD IS FOOLISHNESS WITH GOD. FOR IT IS WRITTEN, HE THAT TAKETH THE WISE IN THEIR CRAFTINESS: 'is foolishness with God' -'For this world's cleverness is stupidity to God.' (P...
18-23 To have a high opinion of our own wisdom, is but to flatter ourselves; and self-flattery is the next step to self-deceit. The wisdom that wordly men esteem, is foolishness with God. How justly...
FOR THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD IS FOOLISHNESS WITH GOD; God accounteth that folly which the world calleth wisdom, and indeed it is so (for God cannot err, nor be mistaken in his judgment): the philosoph...
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written [Job 5:13], _He that taketh the wise in their craftiness:_...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I For on the believer alone, who is separated entirely from the rest, who by the Scripture are called wild beasts, rests the head of the universe, the kind and gen...
1 Corinthians 3:19 For G1063 wisdom G4678 this G5127 world G2889 is G2076 (G5748) foolishness G3472 with G38
THE CHURCH IS GOD'S SACRED SANCTUARY FOR THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELLS IN THEM AND THEY ARE HID WITH CHRIST IN GOD. LET DIVISIVE TEACHERS THEREFORE BEWARE (3:16-23). Paul now applies his building analogy t...
‘Let no man deceive himself. If any man thinks that he is wise among you in this world (or ‘age'), let him become a fool that he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.'...
‘For it is written.' Paul now establishes his position from Scripture. This is not just an afterthought. He has been leading up to this. What he has been saying is in fact what the Scripture, God's re...
FOOLISHNESS WITH GOD (μωρια παρα τω θεω). Whose standard does a church (temple) of God wish, that of this world or of God? The two standards are not the same. It is a pertinent inquiry with us all...
1 Corinthians 3:18 The Self-wise Inquirer. Let us inquire what is the vain wisdom of the world, and then we shall the better see how it leads men astray. I. Now, when it is said that to trust our ow...
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...
17-18. _If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this worl...
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,...
FOR WHAT THIS WORLD. See 1 Corinthians 1:20 and note. AS THE SCRIPTURE SAYS. Paul paraphrases Job 5:13 Septuagint. God lets men outsmart themselves! Compare 1 Corinthians 2:6....
_Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?_ THE TWO TEMPLES Two points comprehend the apostle’s teaching in this chapter. 1. The foundation of Christian...
_Let no man deceive himself._ If any man … seemeth to he wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may he wise. HOW TO AVOID SELF-DECEPTION I. The danger. 1. Is common. 2. Arises out of...
_For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God_. God has rejected the wisdom of the world as worthless, (1.) because it has nothing in it that is wholesome and Divine, and does nothing towards...
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...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 1 Corinthians 3:16.—A TEMPLE (R.V.) misses, or denies, the typology binding Old Testament and New Testament together here. A case where, as often (_e.g_. 1 Corinthians 11:20), one of...
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 1:19; 1 Corinthians 1:20; 1 Corinthians 2:6; 2 Samuel 15:31;...
He taketh [ο δ ρ α σ σ ο μ ε ν ο ς]. Cited from Job 5:13, but not following the Septuagint verbally. The verb occurs only here, meaning to grasp with the hand. Rev., more accurately, gives the force o...
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...
For all the boasted wisdom of the world is mere foolishness in the sight of God. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness — Not only while they think they are acting wisely, but by their very wisdom...
How could Paul consider the words of Eliphaz inspired when God rebuked Eliphaz for saying them to Job? PROBLEM: In 1 Corinthians 3:19 the Apostle Paul quotes from the Book of Job a statement made by o...