1 Corinthians 3:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry,b ye are God's building. ”

• 1 Corinthians 3:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  For we are labourers together with God - Θεοῦ γάρ ἐσμεν συνεργοί Theou gar esmen sunergoi. We are God’s co-workers. A similar expression occurs in 2 Corinthians 6:1 , “We then as workers...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  For we are (e) labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, [ye are] God's building. (e) Serving under him: now they who serve under another do nothing by their own strength, but as it is gi...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:9 - 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 3:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  we . i.e. Paul and Sosthenes. See 1 Corinthians 1:1 . labourers together with God . God's fellow-workers. The word "God" is in the genitive of possession (App-17), as in the two other clauses of...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  9. For we are fellow-laborers with God. Here is the best argument. It is the Lord’s work that we are employed in, and it is to him that we have devoted our labors: hence, as he is faithful a...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building. For we are laborers together with God - We do nothing of ourselves, nor in reference to ourselves; we labor to...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  For we are labourers together with God— For we are the fellow-labourers of God. Doddridge.

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• 1 Corinthians 3:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry ye are God's building For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building. God - Translate,...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Thrice in this verse the Apostle repeats the name of God with emphasis, to explain and to impress the assertion of the previous verse, that men are to recognise the unity, and God alone the diversity...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:9 - 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 3:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:9 - 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 3:9 - 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 3:9 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  SANCTIFIED FOR SERVICE ‘We are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.’ 1 Corinthians 3:9 Your soul is God’s seed-field, God’s building; we are labourers...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  For we are labourers together with God ,.... The ministers of the Gospel are labourers in the Lord's vineyard, and not loiterers; their work is a laborious work, both to body and mind; which lies in...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building. Ver. 9. For we are labourers, &c. ] Let ministers hence learn their, 1. Dignity; 2. Duty. Fructus hon...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  He that planteth and he that watereth are one United in affection, and engaged in one general design, the design of glorifying God in the salvation of souls, though their labours may be in some res...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:9 - 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 3:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Mutual Agreement of Ministers. A. D.  57.       5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but minis...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Though compared with God we are nothing, yet our station is no mean station; God works as the principal efficient Cause, we work with God as his instruments; God worketh one way, by his secret influe...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘Now he who plants and he who waters are one. But each shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. For we are God's fellow-workers. You are God's prepared land, you are God's building.'...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:9 - 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 3:9 - 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 3:9 - 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 3:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  For we are laborers together with God; ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

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• 1 Corinthians 3:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 3:16 ; 1 Corinthians 3:6 ; 1 Corinthians 6:19 ; 1 Peter 2:5 ; 1 Timothy 3:15 ; 2 Corinthians 6:1 ; 2 Corinthians 6:16 ; 3 John 1:8 ; Acts 4:11 ; Amos 9:11 ; Amos 9:12 ; Colo...

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• 1 Corinthians 3:9 - 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 3:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  For we are all fellowlabourers — God's labourers, and fellowlabourers with each other. Ye are God's husbandry — This is the sum of what went before: it is a comprehensive word, taking in both a fie...

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