1 CORINTHIANS 3:22 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;”
Whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future — all are yours — Paul expands: not just church leaders but the whole cosmos ('the world,' 'life,' 'death,' 'the present,' 'the future'). Literally everything serves those in Christ. The Corinthians' myopic boasting in one teacher is absurd: they own vastly more. True boasting would be in their wealth in Christ.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 3:22
“Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come, all are yours; and you are Christ's and Christ is God's.” For because he had handled them sharply, he refreshes them again. And as above he had said, 1 Corinthians 3:9 “We are fellow-workers with God;” and by many other expressions had soothed them: so here too he says, “All things are yours;” taking down the pride of the teachers, and signifying that so far from…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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