1 Corinthians 10:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread. ”

1 Corinthians 10:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For we - We Christians. “Being many.” Greek “The many” ( οἱ πολλοί hoi polloi). This idea is not, as our translation would seem to indicate, that Christians were numerous, but that “all” (fo...
1 Corinthians 10:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Paul now deals directly with the problem of idol sacrifice. He appeals to the analogy of the Supper. The Eucharistic cup brings the worshipper into fellowship with Christ's blood, the loaf into fello...
1 Corinthians 10:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

For, &c . Literally Because there is one loaf, we the many are one body. Compare 1 Corinthians 12:12 . bread . Greek. artos . Always translated "loaf" when the number is specified. See Matt...
1 Corinthians 10:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

17. For we are one bread. I have already stated above, that it was not Paul’s particular design here to exhort us to love, but he mentions this by the way, that the Corinthians may understan...
1 Corinthians 10:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread. For we, being many, are one bread - The original would be better translated thus: Because there is one b...
1 Corinthians 10:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For we, being many, &c.— This verse is still a further proof that the cup of blessing, &c. is not, as some would urge, merely a commemoration of a deceased benefactor; but a commemoration...
1 Corinthians 10:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread. One bread - rather, 'loaf.' One loaf alone probably was used in each celebration. (And) one body....
1 Corinthians 10:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

(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 ver...
1 Corinthians 10:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

For we being many are one bread. — Better, For it is one bread, and we, the many, are one body, for we all take a portion of that one bread. This verse explains how “the breaking” of the bread wa...
1 Corinthians 10:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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. An...
1 Corinthians 10:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Have No Fellowship with Evil 1 Corinthians 10:11-22 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...
1 Corinthians 10:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 t...
1 Corinthians 10:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(16) The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? (17) For we being many are one bread,...
1 Corinthians 10:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For we being many, are one bread and one body ,.... The several members of the church of Christ; particular believers are indeed many, considered in themselves, in their own persons; yet by virtue o...
1 Corinthians 10:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread. Ver. 17. And one body ] By the force of faith and love. Song of Solomon 6:9 ; "My dove is but one;...
1 Corinthians 10:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The cup of blessing In the Lord's supper, the sacramental cup; which we bless Set apart to a sacred use, solemnly invoking the blessing of God upon it. Dr. Macknight renders the original expressi...
1 Corinthians 10:17 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
1 Corinthians 10:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Against Countenancing Idolatry. A. D. 57. 15 I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say. ...
1 Corinthians 10:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Believers, though many, yet are one body, and declare themselves to be one body mystical, by their fellowship together in the ordinance of the Lord's supper; as the bread they there eat is one b...
1 Corinthians 10:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

'The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a communion of the body of Christ? Seeing that we, who are many, are one bread,...
1 Corinthians 10:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
1 Corinthians 10:17 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 Corinthians 10:15-19 . I Speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say. The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the com...
1 Corinthians 10:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 respect...
1 Corinthians 10:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 10:1-46 Warnings against over confidence in relation to idolatry and other temptations. 1 Corinthians 10:1 Moreover ; rather, for. He has just shown the...
1 Corinthians 10:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Conduct toward the Weak. A reference to the Lord's Supper:
1 Corinthians 10:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 10:21 ; 1 Corinthians 10:3 ; 1 Corinthians 10:4 ; 1 Corinthians 11:26-28 ; 1 Corinthians 12:12 ; 1 Corinthians 12:27 ; Colossians 2:19 ; Colossians 3:11 ; Colossians 3:15 ; Ep...
1 Corinthians 10:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

For it is this communion which makes us all one. We being many are yet, as it were, but different parts of one and the same broken bread, which we receive to unite us in one body.

1 Corinthians 10:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

1 Corinthians 10:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 10:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

1 Corinthians 10:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 10:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 Corinthians 10:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

1 Corinthians 10:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 Corinthians 10:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 10:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 Corinthians 10:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

1 Corinthians 10:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 Corinthians 10:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 Corinthians 10:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 Corinthians 10:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 Corinthians 10:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 Corinthians 10:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Corinthians 10:17 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 10:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 Corinthians 10:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 Corinthians 10:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 10:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 Corinthians 10:17 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 Corinthians 10:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Corinthians 10:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 Corinthians 10:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 Corinthians 10:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 10:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes