1 Corinthians 1:30

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 1:30

CHRISTIAN SANCTITY‘Christ … made unto us … sanctification.’ 1 Corinthians 1:30 The special interest of this passage is to note the means of sanctification. How is Christ made sanctification to us? I. Not merely by a presentation of motives.—No doubt motives are presented—motives of gratitude, motives of love, all have their appointed place, but who has not found that the motive power of these affections fails to produce the good fruit which was expected from them? We ought to be grateful,... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:10-31

Christ Crucified For Us And The New Birth Through the Spirit Are the Two Central Foundations of Christianity (1:10-4:21). Paul begins this section by revealing his concern that the Corinthians are in danger of splitting up into different parties around the teaching of certain leading teachers (1 Corinthians 1:10-17), and concentrating on secondary aspects of that teaching, rather than being united around the one central truth of Christ crucified, the one fact which is central to the Christian... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:30-31

‘But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who has become to us wisdom from God, even righteousness, sanctification and redemption. That according as it is written, “He who glories, let him glory in the Lord”.’ Having stressed their lowliness Paul now points out their glorious state ‘in Christ’. In Him they have all the riches of God. In Him they belong to God and are born of God. They are ‘of Him’, that is, of God. (Note that in the phrase ‘Of Him are you’ - ‘are you’ is stressed). And because they... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:18-31

1 Corinthians 1:18 to 1 Corinthians 2:5 . The Cross, Folly to the World, is the Power and Wisdom of God.— Paul now explains and justifies 1 Corinthians 1:17 b, which to Greek readers must have sounded strange, almost a defiant paradox. The story of the Cross is folly to those who are in the way of ruin, but it attests itself in our experience to us, who are in the way of salvation, as the power of God. And this is in harmony with Scripture. For God’ s wise purpose ordained that the world’ s... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:30

But of him are ye in Christ Jesus; of his grace ye are implanted into Christ, and believe in him. You are of him, not by creation only, as all creatures are, but by redemption and regeneration, which is in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom; the principal means by which we come to the knowledge of God, and an acquaintance with his will; for he is the image of the invisible God, Colossians 1:15. The brightness of his Father’s glory, and the express image of his person, Hebrews 1:3.... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 Corinthians 1:18-31

CRITICAL NOTES1 Corinthians 1:19-20.—Isaiah 29:14 (nearly as LXX.), and a free imitation of Isaiah 30:18. For.—Sustains the general drift of 1 Corinthians 1:17-18, not any particular clause. “The cessation of Rabbinical wisdom was to be one of the signs of Messiah’s coming; and that this was foretold in Isaiah 33:18 was believed among the Rabbis. (So Stanley.) Also, “The heathen oracles are dumb,” silenced since Christ came. Remark, “age” and “world” used together here (in the Greek).1... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 1:30

1 Corinthians 1:30 Christ the Source of all Blessings. I. St. Paul seems to have had in his mind a conception of the gradual growth of the Christian spirit under the hand of Christ, from its dawn of grace to its final fulfilment in glory. He seems to view Christ as the great Dispenser of the Father's treasures, accumulating gifts upon the believer's soul until it brightens into the very image of Himself; to view it rising higher and higher, as it is drawn nearer and nearer to Him, till the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 1:30-31

1 Corinthians 1:30-31 Righteousness not of Us, but in Us. In every age of the Church, not in the primitive age only, Christians have been tempted to pride themselves on their gifts, or at least to forget that they were gifts, and to take them for granted. Ever have they been tempted to forget their own responsibilities, their having received what they are bound to improve, and the duty of fear and trembling while improving it. One of the first elements of knowledge and a Christian spirit is to... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - 1 Corinthians 1:30

DISCOURSE: 1932CHRIST IS ALL IN ALL1 Corinthians 1:30. Of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.HABITUATED as we have been from our early childhood to read the Holy Scriptures, and to hear them read in public, it is surprising that we do not gain a more clear and accurate knowledge of their contents. But experience shews, that, however strongly the inspired writers have declared the revealed will of God, it is but... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - 1 Corinthians 1:30

wisdom from God, or, wisdom from God, even righteousness and sanctification, and redemption. righteousness (See Scofield " :-") . redemption (See Scofield " :-") . read more

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