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2:12. Now, we have received not the spirit of this world, but the Spirit
that is of God: that we may know the things that are given us from God.
2:13. Which things also we speak: not in the learned words of human
wisdom, but in the doctrine of the Spirit, comparing spiritual things
with spiritual.
2:14. But the sensual man perceiveth not these things that are of the
Spirit of God. For it is foolishness to him: and he cannot understand,
because it is spiritually examined.
The sensual man--the spiritual man... The sensual man is either he who
is taken up with sensual pleasures, with carnal and worldly affections;
or he who measureth divine mysteries by natural reason, sense, and human
wisdom only. Now such a man has little or no notion of the things of
God. Whereas the spiritual man is he who, in the mysteries of religion,
takes not human sense for his guide: but submits his judgment to the
decisions of the church, which he is commanded to hear and obey. For
Christ hath promised to remain to the end of the world with his church,
and to direct her in all things by the Spirit of truth.
2:15. But the spiritual man judgeth all things: and he himself is judged
of no man.
2:16. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him?
But we have the mind of Christ.
1 Corinthians Chapter 3
They must not contend about their teachers, who are but God's ministers
and accountable to him. Their works shall be tried by fire.
3:1. And I, brethren, could not speak to you as unto spiritual, but as
unto carnal. As unto little ones in Christ.
3:2. I gave you milk to drink, not meat: for you were not able as yet.
But neither indeed are you now able: for you are yet carnal.
3:3. For, whereas there is among you envying and contention, are you not
carnal and walk you not according to man?
3:4. For while one saith: I indeed am of Paul: and another: I am of
Apollo: are you not men? What then is Apollo and what is Paul?
3:5. The ministers of him whom you have believed: and to every one as
the Lord hath given.
3:6. I have planted, Apollo watered: but God gave the increase.
3:7. Therefore, neither he that planteth is any thing, nor he that
watereth: but God that giveth the increase.
3:8. Now he that planteth and he that watereth, are one. And every man
shall receive his own reward, according to his own labour.
3:9. For we are God's coadjutors. You are God's husbandry: you are God's
building.
3:10. According to the grace of God that is given to me, as a wise
architect, I have laid the foundation: and another buildeth thereon. But
let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
3:11. For other foundation no man can lay, but that which is laid: which
is Christ Jesus.
3:12. Now, if any man build upon this foundation, gold, silver, precious
stones, wood, hay, stubble:
Upon this foundation... The foundation is Christ and his doctrine: or
the true faith in him, working through charity. The building upon this
foundation gold, silver, and precious stones, signifies the more perfect
preaching and practice of the gospel; the wood, hay, and stubble, such
preaching as that of the Corinthian teachers (who affected the pomp of
words and human eloquence) and such practice as is mixed with much
imperfection, and many lesser sins. Now the day of the Lord, and his
fiery trial, (in the particular judgment immediately after death,) shall
make manifest of what sort every man's work has been: of which, during
this life, it is hard to make a judgment. For then the fire of God's
judgment shall try every man's work. And they, whose works, like wood,
hay, and stubble, cannot abide the fire, shall suffer loss; these works
being found to be of no value; yet they themselves, having built upon
the right foundation, (by living and dying in the true faith and in the
state of grace, though with some imperfection,) shall be saved yet so as
by fire; being liable to this punishment, by reason of the wood, hay,
and stubble, which was mixed with their building.
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