1 Corinthians 4:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it: ”

1 Corinthians 4:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And labour ... - This Paul often did. See the note at Acts 18:3 ; compare Acts 20:34 ; 1Th 2:9 . 2 Thessalonians 3:8 . Being reviled - That they were often reviled or reproached, their...
1 Corinthians 4:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Paul will Accept no Judgment but Christ's. The Fortunate Lot of the Corinthians Contrasted with the Miserable Condition of the Apostles. This section is concerned with the attitude of the Corinthia...
1 Corinthians 4:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

working, &c . See Acts 18:3 ; Acts 20:34 . 1Th 2:9. 2 Thessalonians 3:8 . reviled . Greek. loidoreo. See John 9:28 .
1 Corinthians 4:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

12. When he says that while persecuted he suffers it, and that he prays for his revilers, he intimates that he is not merely afflicted and abased by God, by means of the cross, but is a...
1 Corinthians 4:12 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1954 PAUL’S MEEKNESS 1 Corinthians 4:12-13 . Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it: being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the earth, and are the off...
1 Corinthians 4:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it: Working with our own hands - They were obliged to labor in order to supply themselves with the necessa...
1 Corinthians 4:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it: Working with our own hands - namely, "even unto this present hour" ( 1 Corinthians 4:11 ): so...
1 Corinthians 4:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Christian Teachers only the Instruments of God The folly and sin of quarrelling about different teachers who are but servants of Christ and responsible to Him.
1 Corinthians 4:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

And labour. — While at Ephesus, whence this letter was written, the Apostle supported himself by working with Aquila and Priscilla at tent-making. This labour was no recreation or pastime with St....
1 Corinthians 4:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 7 THE MINISTRY So keenly alive is Paul to the danger and folly of party spirit in the Church, that he has still one more word of rebuke to utter. He has shown the Corinthians that to give...
1 Corinthians 4:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Stewards Responsible to Their Lord 1 Corinthians 4:1-13 At the most the ministers or teachers of God's Gospel are but stewards of the hidden things of God, according to Matthew 13:51-52 . They...
1 Corinthians 4:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Christian teachers are "ministers of Christ." That defines their responsibility. They are "stewards of the mysteries of God." That defines their work. What dignity does this double statement suggest?...
1 Corinthians 4:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(6)And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be...
1 Corinthians 4:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And labour, working with our own hands ,.... As the apostle did at Corinth, Acts 18:3 and elsewhere; partly to minister to his own necessities, and those of others; and partly that he might not be...
1 Corinthians 4:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it: Ver. 12. And labour, working, &c. ] Whereas they might object, Are you hungry, thirsty, naked?...
1 Corinthians 4:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

We are fools In the account of the world, for Christ's sake Because we expose ourselves to so many dangers and sufferings for his cause: or because we preach the plain truths of the gospel, and a...
1 Corinthians 4:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

But while we are not to exalt a ministering servant, no more are we to despise him or his work. The apostles should certainly be recognized for what they actually were, "ministers of Christ, and stew...
1 Corinthians 4:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Caution against Censoriousness; Distressed Condition of the Apostles. A. D. 57. 7 For who ma...
1 Corinthians 4:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

And labour, working with our hands; we do not only labour in the word and doctrine, but we labour with our hands, that we might not be burdensome to the church, our hands ministering to our necessi...
1 Corinthians 4:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Those Who Are True To The Word of the Cross Endure Suffering For Christ. The Corinthians Need To Re-examine Their Foundations (4:6-13). Paul now stresses that all that he has said has been with th...
1 Corinthians 4:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES 1 Corinthians 4:6 .—From 1 Corinthians 3:5 he has discussed what applied to all the factions and their leaders, and even more to the others than to the so-called Pauline and Apol...
1 Corinthians 4:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Corinthians 4:1 . Let a man, yea every one of you, however biassed by parties, so account of us, though servants for your sakes, as ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God,...
1 Corinthians 4:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

Now ye are full … rich … as kings. The difference between the counterfeit and the real Christian I. The counterfeit-- 1. Is so replenished with Divine knowledge that he needs no teacher. 2...
1 Corinthians 4:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 4:1-46 Judgments, human and Divine, respecting ministers. 1 Corinthians 4:1 Let a man so account of us. Since it is inevitable that Christians should for...
1 Corinthians 4:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The status of the heralds of salvation:
1 Corinthians 4:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 9:6 ; 1 Peter 2:23 ; 1 Peter 3:14 ; 1 Peter 3:9 ; 1 Peter 4:12-14 ; 1 Peter 4:19 ; 1 Thessalonians 2:9 ; 1 Timothy 4:10 ; 2 Thessalonians 3:8 ; Acts 18:3 ; Acts 20:34 ; Acts...
1 Corinthians 4:12 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Christian Stewardship 1 Corinthians 4:1-21 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The names surrounding discipleship. Our chapter presents before us several statements which remind us of the responsibility and...
1 Corinthians 4:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

We bless — suffer it — intreat — We do not return revilings, persecution, defamation; nothing but blessing.

1 Corinthians 4:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

1 Corinthians 4:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 4:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

1 Corinthians 4:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 4:12 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

1 Corinthians 4:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 Corinthians 4:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 Corinthians 4:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 4:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 Corinthians 4:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

1 Corinthians 4:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 Corinthians 4:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 Corinthians 4:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 Corinthians 4:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 Corinthians 4:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 Corinthians 4:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Corinthians 4:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 4:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 Corinthians 4:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 Corinthians 4:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 4:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 Corinthians 4:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Corinthians 4:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

1 Corinthians 4:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 Corinthians 4:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 Corinthians 4:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 4:12 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

1 Corinthians 4:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes