1 CORINTHIANS 3:23 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.”
And you are of Christ, and Christ is of God — the chain ascends: Corinthians belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God. This is the true hierarchy. Not Corinthians to Paul to Apollos, but Corinthians to Christ to God. All belonging flows upward to God, not sideways to human patrons. The Corinthians should trace their identity to its source: God's sovereign choice in Christ.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 3:23
“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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