1 Corinthians 4:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness? ”

1 Corinthians 4:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

What will ye - It depends on yourselves how I shall come. If you lay aside your contentions and strifes; if you administer discipline as you should; if you give yourselves heartily and entirely t...
1 Corinthians 4:21 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(12) What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and [in] the (l) spirit of meekness? (12) A passing over to another part of this epistle, in which he reprehends most sharply a very...
1 Corinthians 4:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Fatherly Admonition, Entreaty, and Warning. The tone of mingled severity, irony, and pathos disappears; yet the affection is combined with sternness, and he warns them not to presume on his mildnes...
1 Corinthians 4:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

unto . Greek. pr . s , as in verses: 1 Corinthians 4:18-19 . This verse is an example of Figure of speech Anocoenosis . App-6. with . in. Greek. en, as in 1 Corinthians 4:2 . Compare Luke...
1 Corinthians 4:21 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

21. What will ye ? The person who divided the Epistles into chapters ought to have made this the beginning of the fifth chapter. For having hitherto reproved the foolish pride of the Cori...
1 Corinthians 4:21 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1955 AN IMPORTANT ALTERNATIVE 1 Corinthians 4:21 . What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod. or in love, and in the spirit of meekness? AT Corinth, religion was at a very low...
1 Corinthians 4:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness? Shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love - Here he alludes to the case of the teacher and father, ment...
1 Corinthians 4:21 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Shall I come unto you with a rod?— "Using my apostolic power for your chastisement?"ThattheApostleshadoftenamiraculouspower of inflicting death and other temporal judgments, in case of aggravated o...
1 Corinthians 4:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness? With a rod, or in love. The Greek "in" is in both clauses: Is it IN the character of one using the r...
1 Corinthians 4:21 - 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 4:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

What will ye? — I give you a choice. I am coming to you as a father in any case. But shall I come as a father comes with a rod ( Isaiah 11:4 ), and going to inflict punishment with it (such is the...
1 Corinthians 4:21 - 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 4:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Teaching Converts Christ's Ways 1 Corinthians 4:14-21 The relationship between the Apostle and his converts was very tender. They were his children. They might have instructors and tutors, but...
1 Corinthians 4:21 - 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 4:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(14) I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you. (15) For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have beg...
1 Corinthians 4:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

What will ye ?.... Or "how will ye, that I should come unto you?" as the Arabic and Ethiopic versions read it: since the apostle had determined upon his coming to them: and had made mention of it, h...
1 Corinthians 4:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness? Ver. 21. With a rod, or in love? ] Both; but (as children) we think not so. Sed sinite virgam corripi...
1 Corinthians 4:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Now some are puffed up Are grown insolent; as though I would not come To censure them for their misconduct, and to reform abuses; fancying that, because I have sent Timothy, I am not coming mysel...
1 Corinthians 4:21 - 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 4:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Paul's Affection and Authority. A. D. 57. 17 For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus,...
1 Corinthians 4:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Which will ye rather choose? That I should come unto you as a father cometh to his child under some guilt for which he must punish and correct him, or as a father cometh to his child that hath done n...
1 Corinthians 4:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Let Them Then Remember That He Fathered Them And That Through Him God's Power Was and Is Revealed (4:14-21)
1 Corinthians 4:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES 1 Corinthians 4:14 .—Irony dropped. Even in 1 Corinthians 4:6 it was “Brothers!” Now, “Beloved children!” Yet surely he did desire to make them ashamed of their bearing towards a...
1 Corinthians 4:21 - 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 4:21 - The Biblical Illustrator

I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you. Paul an example to parents and teachers He proceeds-- I. With love. 1. Not as a schoolmaster, but as a father....
1 Corinthians 4:21 - 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 4:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The apostle's fatherly discipline:
1 Corinthians 4:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 5:5 ; 1 Thessalonians 2:7 ; 2 Corinthians 10:1 ; 2 Corinthians 10:2 ; 2 Corinthians 10:6 ; 2 Corinthians 10:8 ; 2 Corinthians 12:20 ; 2 Corinthians 12:21 ; 2 Corinthians 13:2 ;...
1 Corinthians 4:21 - 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 4:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

With a rod — That is, with severity.

1 Corinthians 4:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

1 Corinthians 4:21 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

1 Corinthians 4:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 4:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

1 Corinthians 4:21 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 4:21 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

1 Corinthians 4:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 Corinthians 4:21 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

1 Corinthians 4:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 Corinthians 4:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 4:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 Corinthians 4:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

1 Corinthians 4:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 Corinthians 4:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 Corinthians 4:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 Corinthians 4:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 Corinthians 4:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 Corinthians 4:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Corinthians 4:21 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 4:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 Corinthians 4:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 Corinthians 4:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 4:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 Corinthians 4:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Corinthians 4:21 - The Biblical Illustrator

1 Corinthians 4:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 Corinthians 4:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 Corinthians 4:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 4:21 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

1 Corinthians 4:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes