1 Coríntios 3
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1 Coríntios 3:1
These people were carnal because they were still slaves to the desires of the present age. Although they had been baptized and had received the Holy Spirit, they were carnal because after their baptism they had returned to their old lives, which they had renounced. The Holy Spirit dwells in a person into whom he has poured himself if that person stays firm in the conviction of his new birth. Otherwise he departs, but only provisionally. If that person repents, the Spirit will return, for he is always ready for what is good, being a lover of repentance. Commentary on Paul's Epistles.
1 Coríntios 3:2
Although they had been born again in Christ, they were not yet fit to receive spiritual things. Although they had received the faith which is the seed of the Spirit, they had produced no fruit worthy of God, but like babies, they were eager for the sensations of imperfection. But Paul, who was a man of God and a spiritual physician, gave to each of them according to his strength, so that no one should suffer scandal where spiritual matters were concerned because of imperfection or inexperience. Paul is also arguing strongly against those who were complaining that they had not heard anything spiritual for a long time, when in fact they were not worthy to hear it. The false apostles conveyed their message indiscriminately to anyone who would listen, but it is generally agreed that our Lord and Master spoke one way in public and another way to his disciples in private, and that even among the latter a distinction was made, for he displayed his glory on the mountain to only three disciples and told them to say nothing about what had happened until he should rise again from the dead. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 3:6
To plant is to evangelize and to bring to faith, to water is to baptize with the approved form of words. To forgive sins, however, and to give the Spirit belongs to God alone. We know that the Holy Spirit is given by God without the laying on of hands, and it has happened that an unbaptized person has received the forgiveness of his sins. Was such a person invisibly baptized, considering that he received the gift which belongs to baptism? — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 3:7
In relation to God's honor, human honor is nothing. As far as the ministry is concerned, a man may be honored in the way that a servant is honored. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 3:8
Even though they are equal, the one who preaches the gospel is still greater than the one who baptizes and will receive a greater reward. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 3:10
The wise master builder is one who preaches the same gospel as that which was preached by the Savior. Afterward other people build on the foundation, sometimes well and sometimes badly. We need to pay attention to make sure that what we build coheres with the foundation, because if it is crooked or lightweight it will collapse, though the foundation itself will remain intact. Even when people have taught badly, the name of Christ endures, because it is the foundation, although the bad teaching collapses. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 3:11
Nobody can lay another foundation, because even if some people are heretics, they do not teach except in the name of Christ. They cannot commend the inventions of their error in any other way. So through the dignity of his name they try to make contradictory and absurd ideas acceptable. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 3:13
In the fire, bad teaching will become clear to everyone, though for the moment it is deceiving some. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 3:14
If anyone's work proves lasting, he will receive his wage. He will be just like the three brothers in the fiery furnace, destined to receive as his wage heavenly life with glory. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 3:15
To suffer loss is to endure reproof. For what person, when subjected to punishment, does not lose something thereby? Yet the person himself may be saved. His living soul will not perish in the same way that his erroneous ideas will. Even so, however, he may suffer punishments of fire. He will be saved only by being purified through fire. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 3:16
It is necessarily the case that God lives in his own temple. Note that because he says that the Spirit of God lives in us, the word God must be taken to refer to the Holy Spirit [in this verse]. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 3:17
Paul says this in order to prick the consciences of those who have corrupted their bodies through evil living, especially the man who was having an affair with his father's wife.. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 3:18
Here Paul is returning to what he said [in the first chapter]. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 3:20
Knowing that their thoughts are vain, God rebukes their wisdom in order to prove that they are foolish, showing that what they thought was false is true and vice versa. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 3:21
Human reasoning is unwise and weak, so one should not glory in man but in God, whose word cannot be altered. Whatever human beings think apart from God is foolishness. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 3:23
We are Christ's because we were made by him, both physically and spiritually. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES