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All Leaders Serve You
Scholars explain that Paul's primary goal was to stop divisions. He reminds the Corinthians that leaders like himself, Apollos, and Peter (Cephas) don't "own" factions of followers. Instead, these leaders and their gifts belong to the entire church. They are given by God to serve and build up all believers, not to rule over their conscience or become idols.
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1 Corinthians
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Corinthians 3:22
18th Century
Theologian
Whether Paul, or Apollos. The sense of this is clear. Whatever advantages result from the piety, self-denials, and labours of Paul, Apollo…
AT Robertson
On 1 Corinthians 3:22
Yours (υμων). Predicate genitive, belong to you. All the words in this verse and 23 are anarthrous, though not indefinite, but def…
Charles Spurgeon
On 1 Corinthians 3:21–23
19th Century
Preacher
For all things are yours; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come, all are y…
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Corinthians 3:22
The conclusion is that no Christian should be “boasting” (GK 3016) or glorying in human wisdom and attainments—not even in those of Paul or Apollos…
John Calvin
On 1 Corinthians 3:22
16th Century
Theologian
All things are yours. He proceeds to show what place and station teachers should occupy—such as not to detract in any degree from the auth…
John Gill
On 1 Corinthians 3:22
17th Century
Pastor
Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas
These are particularly named, because their disputes were chiefly about them; but what is …
Matthew Henry
On 1 Corinthians 3:18–23
17th Century
Minister
To have a high opinion of our own wisdom is only to flatter ourselves, and self-flattery is the next step to self-deceit. The wisdom that worldly m…