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1 Corinthians 3:19

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. All that which calls itself philosophy, and talks about its culture, and so on, is foolishness with God, just as much today as it was among the Greeks. 1Co_3:19. For it is written, he taketh the wise in their own craftiness. They call themselves wise, but they shall all be taken in their own...

1 Corinthians 3:19-20

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For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. What a wonderfully small difference there is, after all, between the very cultured man, who thinks himself so, and the man who makes no pretense to it...

1 Corinthians 3:21

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Therefore let no man glory in men. There really is not anything to glory in, in men. “The best of men are men at the best.” Never need we exalt ourselves or extol others. “Lord, what is man that thou art mindful of him?” “Let no man glory in men.” 1Co_3:21 For all things are yours; Children of God, all men are yours, to serve your highest benefit....

1 Corinthians 6:2-3

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Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know ye not that we shall judge angels? Sitting with Christ, at the last great day of judgment, we shall give our “Amen” to the condemnation of the fallen spirits.

1 Corinthians 6:3-4

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How much more things that pertain to this life? If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church. For they will be better judges than the best of worldly men. Do you set such people to judge your difficult matters? And if you do not, then why do you go to those who are even worse...

1 Corinthians 6:5-11

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I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren? But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers. Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather...

1 Corinthians 6:11-12

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But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: There are some things that I may do; that is, I have the liberty to do them if I please; but I must also consider whether they are expedient, or whether they...

1 Corinthians 6:12-13

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All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. So, on the one hand, do not make too much of abstaining from this or that, for these things, after all, are but small matters to glory in; but, on the other hand, let no man ever call...

1 Corinthians 6:13-14

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Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. Our bodies belong to him; therefore, let us think highly of them, and never do anything to injure them; and, especially, let us take care never to let them become instruments of...

1 Corinthians 9:22-24

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I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. And this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you. Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? No matter if twenty or a hundred had entered for the race, “but one receiveth the prize.” Alas! out of these who appear...

1 Corinthians 9:24

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So run, that ye may obtain. Do not speculate about what others will do, or not do, but see to your own running: “So run that ye may obtain.” Salvation is all of grace; but when a man is saved, he still has to run the Christian race and to be a runner as long as he lives.”

1 Corinthians 9:25

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And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Here Paul is alluding to the athletic games and pugilistic encounters of the time. It was a matter of common notoriety that every man, who was going to fight, or wrestle, or run, had to get himself into proper condition, — to “go into training,” as we say in similar cases...

1 Corinthians 9:27

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But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: The Greek word, according to some, implies getting his body into the same position as a man does, when, in a pugilistic encounter, he gets his adversary’s head under his arm, and smites him with all his might, So Paul says concerning his body, “I bring it into subjection and take care that it...

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