“ Let all your things be done with charity. ”
Let all your things ... - All that you do. This direction is repeated on account of its great importance, and because it is a summing up of all that he had said in this Epistle; see 1 Corinthian...
1 Corinthians 16. Various Business and Personal Matters. Salutation. First ( 1 Corinthians 16:1-4 ) he gives instructions as to the collection for the poor Christians at Jerusalem (2 Corinthians 8...
with . in. App-104. charity . love. Greek. agape . App-135. Compare 1 Corinthians 14:1 ; 1 Peter 4:8 .
14. Let all your things be done in love Again he repeats what is the rule in all those transactions, in which we have dealings with one another. He wishes, then, that love shall be the di...
DISCOURSE: 1996 CHRISTIAN COUNSEL 1 Corinthians 16:13-14 . Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. Let all your things be done with charity . OF all the apostolic Churc...
Let all your things be done with charity. Let all your things be done with charity - Let love to God, to man, and to one another, be the motive of all your conduct.
Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. Their hopes of salvation ought to depend not on Apollos or any teacher: it rests with themselves. Watch ye - for ye are slu...
The Collection. Personal Messages and Conclusion The Apostle in this chapter instructs the Corinthians to make a collection for the poor Christians in Judæa, intimates his intention of visiting th...
Watch ye, stand fast. — These words of stirring exhortation come in here somewhat abruptly. It is possible that they conclude the epistle so far — the Apostle intending to add immediately before se...
Chapter 25 THE POOR IN closing his letter to the Corinthians, Paul, as usual, explains his own movements, and adds a number of miscellaneous directions and salutations. These for the most part re...
Exhortations and Salutations 1 Corinthians 16:13-24 The Apostle was careful to cultivate friendship, one of the priceless gifts of God; and he was very generous not only in his references to hi...
The last chapter of the epistle is local and personal. In the first sentences important principles are revealed as to the true method of Christian giving. It is to be regular and systematic rather th...
(13) Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. (14) Let all your things be done with charity. (15) I beseech you, brethren, ye (know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firs...
THE CHURCH’S POSITION ‘Quit you like men, be strong. Let all your things be done with charity.’ 1 Corinthians 16:13-14 It is with these words of exhortation that St. Paul practically closes...
Let all your things be done with charity. Signifying, that the whole of their obedience to Christ, their observation of, and subjection to all his ordinances and commands, should spring from, and b...
Let all your things be done with charity. Ver. 14. Let all your things, &c. ] Love is the saint's livery, John 13:35 . Heathens acknowledged that no people in the world did love one another...
To conclude. Watch ye Against all your seen and unseen enemies; stand fast in the faith Seeing and trusting in Him that is invisible: quit you like men With courage and patience; be strong To...
This last chapter forms a fourth division of the book of I Corinthians, with its simple, practical instructions. The unity of the body of Christ is to be expressed in genuine practical care for the n...
Particular Directions. A. D. 57. 13 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be...
Charity (as hath been before discoursed) is a term comprehensive both of love to God, and to our neighbour; the failure of this in their divisions and contentions, and satisfying their own judgment...
'Watch you, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.' He pleads with them to be both men of strength and men of love. Strong against both what is w...
CRITICAL NOTES 1 Corinthians 16:5 .—This arrangement set aside an earlier plan ( 2 Corinthians 1:16 ) to come direct to Corinth from Ephesus by ship, and thence to go to Macedonia. Now he will co...
1 Corinthians 16:1 . The collection for the saints, chiefly for the poor ministers of the word. This was to be done once a week, and it is the ancient and best way for poor people to support the g...
Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear. Paul’s affectionate recommendation of Timothy teaches us that young ministers 1. Often need encouragement. 2. Should be respe...
EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 16:1-46 Directions and arrangements. 1 Corinthians 16:1 Now concerning the collection for the saints. "The saints" are here the poor Christians at Jerusa...
A concluding exhortation:
1 Corinthians 12:31 ; 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ; 1 Corinthians 14:1 ; 1 Corinthians 8:1 ; 1 John 4:7 ; 1 John 4:8 ; 1 Peter 4:8 ; 1 Thessalonians 3:12 ; 1 Thessalonians 3:6 ; 1 Thessalonians 4...
The Postlude 1 Corinthians 16:1-24 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Final words are always listened to eagerly among friends. That is the reason we are calling the study for today, a postlude, because they...