“ I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. ”
I have planted - The apostle here compares the establishment of the church at Corinth to the planting of a vine, a tree, or of grain. The figure is taken from agriculture, and the meaning is obvi...
(3) I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. (3) He beautifies the former sentence, with two similarities: first comparing the company of the faithful to a field which God makes f...
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...
have planted . planted. See Acts 18:1-18 . watered . Greek. potizo , as in 1 Corinthians 3:2 . See Acts 18:27 Acts 19:1 . God . App-98. gave the increase . was causing it to grow. Imperf...
6. I have planted, Apollos watered He unfolds more clearly the nature of that ministry by a similitude, in which the nature of the word and the use of preaching are most appropriately depict...
DISCOURSE: 1944 UNDUE PARTIALITY TO MINISTERS REPROVED 1 Corinthians 3:5-7 . Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? I have p...
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. I have planted - I first sowed the seed of the Gospel at Corinth, and in the region of Achaia. Apollos watered - Apollos came after me, an...
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. I ... planted, Apollos watered ( Acts 18:1 ; Acts 19:1 ). Apollos was born in the learned city Alexandria: he originally "knew only...
Paraphrase. 'Te yourselves, brethren, are an illustration of what I say. (2) I have treated you as beginners and given you elementary Christian teaching, for hitherto you have been unfit for any ot...
I have planted, Apollos watered. — By an image borrowed from the processes of agriculture the Apostle explains the relation in which his teaching stood to that of Apollos — and how all the results...
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...
Prosperity Comes from God 1 Corinthians 3:1-9 In all our relations with our fellow-men, Christ's followers must realize their obligations as members of one great family, with one God. A man may...
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...
(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;...
CHRISTIAN UNITY ‘I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.’ 1 Corinthians 3:6 St. Paul pleaded with the Corinthians for unity of spirit. Had he lived now, I do not think he...
I have planted ,.... That is, ministerially; otherwise the planting of souls in Christ, and the implanting of grace in them, are things purely divine, and peculiar to God, and the power of his grace...
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. Ver. 6. But God gave the increase ] The harp yields no sound till it be touched by the hand of the musician. The heart is never made go...
For while one saith, I am of Paul I am one of Paul's disciples, admiring his sublime sentiments, and being greatly edified by his instructive discourses: and another, I am of Apollos I give the p...
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...
Mutual Agreement of Ministers. A. D. 57. 5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but minis...
God honoured me first to preach the gospel amongst you, Acts 18:1-28 &c., and blessed my preaching to convert you unto Christ; then I left you: Apollos stayed behind, and he watered what I...
‘What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Ministers through whom you believed, and each one as the Lord gave to him. I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.' Elsewhere Paul will tell Chris...
CRITICAL NOTES 1 Corinthians 3:5 .—Better reading “ what? ” not “ who? ” Also “ through .” Not, “As the Lord gave to every man of you the type of teacher he needed”; but, “As the Lord allotted...
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...
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...
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...
All ministers of Christ of equal rank:
1 Corinthians 1:30 ; 1 Corinthians 15:10 ; 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 ; 1 Corinthians 3:10 ; 1 Corinthians 3:9 ; 1 Corinthians 4:14 ; 1 Corinthians 4:15 ; 1 Corinthians 9:1 ; 1 Corinthians 9:7-11...
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...