“ Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. ”
Be not deceived - By your false teachers, and by their smooth and plausible arguments. This is an exhortation. He had thus far been engaged in an argument on the subject. He now entreats them to...
(19) Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. (19) The conclusion with a sharp exhortation, that they take heed of the wicked company of certain ones. And from this he shows where...
1 Corinthians 15:29 . Many interpretations have been offered. The most probable remains that given above. A view which deserves mention is that Paul is referring to those who are baptized for the...
deceived . See 1 Corinthians 6:9 . evil . App-128. communications . associations. Greek. homilia. Only here. Compare the verb, Acts 20:11 . corrupt . See 1 Corinthians 3:17 . good . App...
33. Be not deceived. Evil communications corrupt good manners As nothing is easier than to glide into profane speculation, under the pretext of inquiring, (91) he meets this danger, by warn...
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. Be not deceived - Do not impose on yourselves, and permit not others to do it. Evil communications corrupt good manners - There are many sa...
Evil communications corrupt good manners.— The original words are a quotation from the works of Menander, and are an Iambic verse. Accordingly Dr. Doddridge very well translates them thus: "Good...
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. Be not deceived - as though denial of the resurrection were a mere harmless speculation ( 1 Corinthians 6:9 ): nay, association with...
(f) The Fact and the Doctrine of the Resurrection of the Dead Some Corinthians disbelieved in the resurrection of the dead—not, apparently, in Christ's Resurrection, though St. Paul felt this wo...
Be not deceived. — The previous words are spoken with sarcasm. That is what you must come to if this life be all. The solemn thought then occurs to the Apostle that perhaps these words do only to...
Chapter 21 THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST I. ITS PLACE IN THE CHRISTIAN CREED PAUL having now settled the minor questions of order in public worship, marriage, intercourse with the heathen, and the...
This Body the Seed of a Glorious One 1 Corinthians 15:29-41 The anticipation of the final resurrection enabled the early Christians to endure incredible sufferings. As one rank fell martyred, a...
The last fact of the "spiritualities" is the resurrection, and the apostle first gives the proof of the resurrection of Christ. His final proof was his own experience. It is evident that there were...
(29) Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead? (30) And why stand we in jeopardy every hour? (31) I protest by you...
Be not deceived ,.... By such as deny the doctrine of the resurrection, and by their reasonings about it; or by such libertines who go into the denial of it, and argue from thence in favour of their...
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. Ver. 33. Evil communication ] Evil words are not wind, as most imagine, but the devil's drivel, that leaves a foul stain upon the speake...
I protest by your rejoicing Greek, νη την υμετεραν καυχησιν ην εχω, by the boasting concerning you which I have , namely, on account of your faith in Christ Jesus our Lord. So the clause is interp...
This chapter itself forms a third division of the book, and deals with another most serious matter in Corinth. Some among them denied the resurrection of the dead. But the resurrection of Christ is t...
The Resurrection of Christ; The Resurrection of Saints. A. D. 57. 20 But now is Christ risen...
Do not suffer yourselves to be abused with evil and corrupt discourses of those philosophers amongst whom you converse, who argue from innate principles of reason against articles of faith; though yo...
Further Arguments For The Necessity of Resurrection (15:29-34). The assumption behind what follows is the belief among some of the Corinthians that man was made of both body and spirit, and that t...
CRITICAL NOTES 1 Corinthians 15:20 . Hath .—Emphasis here, not on “ now ” or “ Christ .” Over against their doubts, and speculations, and “impossibilities,” Paul sets the one conclusive fact ....
1 Corinthians 15:33-34 I. We sometimes feel a difficulty in understanding why Paul should be so very earnest in insisting on the resurrection of the body. It seems as if he thought that without th...
1 Corinthians 15:1-2 . Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memo...
1 Corinthians 15:1 . I declare unto you the gospel by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you. We have here an epitome of the whole gospel, comprising essentially th...
And why stand we in Jeopardy every hour? The hourly jeopardy: the daily death We have now reached the second of St. Paul’s argumenta ad hominem . The first is the argument for the resurrection...
EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 15:1-46 The doctrine of the resurrection. This chapter, and the thirteenth, on Christian love, stand out, even among the writings of St. Paul, as pre-eminently be...
The effect of unbelief in the doctrine of the resurrection:
1 Corinthians 5:6 ; 1 Corinthians 6:9 ; 2 Peter 2:18-20 ; 2 Peter 2:2 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:10 ; 2 Timothy 2:16-18 ; Ephesians 5:6 ; Galatians 6:7 ; Hebrews 12:15 ; Matthew 24:11 ; Matthew 2...
How Are the Dead Raised Up? 1 Corinthians 15:29-58 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There are two rather startling questions asked and answered in the opening verses; that is, from 1 Corinthians 15:29-34...
Be not deceived — By such pernicious counsels as this. Evil communications corrupt good manners — He opposes to the Epicurean saying, a well — known verse of the poet Menander. Evil communications...