1 Corinthians 3:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; ”

• 1 Corinthians 3:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Now if any man - If any teacher in the doctrines which he inculcates; or any private Christian in the hopes which he cherishes. The main discussion doubtless, has respect to the teachers of relig...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (6) Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; (6) Thirdly he shows that they must take heed that the upper part of the building is answerable to th...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Renewed Condemnation of Party Spirit. Paul has now reached a point where he can effect an easy return to the divisions at Corinth. He has been speaking of the spiritual man who is capable of receiv...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Now . = But. if . App-118. any man . any one. Greek. tis . App-123. upon . App-104. hay . Greek. chortos. Translated twelve times "grass", twice "blade", Matthew 13:26 ; Mark 4:28 . Onl...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  12. Now if any man build upon this foundation He pursues still farther the metaphor. It would not have been enough to have laid the foundation if the entire superstructure did not correspond...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:12 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1946 INSTRUCTIONS TO THOSE WHO BUILD UPON THE TRUE FOUNDATION 1 Corinthians 3:12-15 . Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; ever...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; If any men build - gold, silver, etc. - Without entering into curious criticisms relative to these differe...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Now if any man build, &c.— "Though no man who pretends to be a preacher of the Gospel can build upon any other foundation than that of Jesus Christ, yet you ought not to cry up your new instruc...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Now х de ( G1161 )] - "But." The "gold, silver, precious stones," which all can bear fire ( Re...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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 disagree...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Now if any man... — Better, But if any man. Precious stones. — Not gems, but grand and costly stones, such as marble. “Hay,” dried grass used to fill up chinks in the walls. “Stubble,” stalks...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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 C...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Build on the Sure Foundation 1 Corinthians 3:10-23 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...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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 f...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (3) For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? (4) For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos;...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Now if any man build upon this foundation ,.... The different materials laid by one and the same man, on this foundation, or the different doctrines advanced upon it, are some of them comparable to...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Ver. 12. Wood, hay, stubble ] Rhetorical strains, philosophical fancies, that tend not to edification....

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• 1 Corinthians 3:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  If any man build upon this foundation Thus firmly laid; gold, silver, precious stones The most valuable materials in nature, the most solid, durable, and precious, and which can bear the fire. An...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Spiritual Foundation. A. D.  57.       11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The apostle is discoursing metaphorically, he had compared the church of Corinth to a building, 1 Corinthians 3:9 , and called them there God's building; they were built upon the doctrine of th...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  That Is Why These Teachers Are United In Their Work Knowing They Must Account To God For Their Ministry (3:8-15). Paul now puts all these teachers, including himself, firmly in their place. They a...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES 1 Corinthians 3:10 .— Was given … I laid , q.d . “when I was at Corinth.” “ A foundation,” “which I subjectively laid in my teaching at Corinth, because God had already laid the...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:12 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  1 Corinthians 3:11-13 Life as a Structure. I. There is a foundation laid. The idea couched in this figure is the radical idea, which runs through the whole of Scripture, that something must be do...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:12 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  1. And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. The church at Corinth consisted of persons of large education and great abilitie...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 eloquenc...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

  According to the grace of God … as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation … But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. All of grace Now when we say a godly man acknowledg...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 3:1-46 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 breth...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble,

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• 1 Corinthians 3:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 1:7 ; 1 Timothy 4:1-3 ; 1 Timothy 4:6 ; 1 Timothy 4:7 ; 1 Timothy 6:3 ; 2 Corinthians 2:17 ; 2 Corinthians 4:2 ; 2 Timothy 2:16-18 ; 2 Timothy 2:20 ; 2 Timothy 3:13 ; 2 Timothy 3:7...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:12 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Carnal and Spiritual Christian 1 Corinthians 3:1-23 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In our last study, we were discussing two kinds of people. One, the unregenerate who had not the Spirit, and the othe...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  If any one build gold, silver, costly stones — Three sorts of materials which will bear the fire; true and solid doctrines. Wood, hay, stubble — Three which will not bear the fire. Such are all doc...

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