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1 Korintus 3:3

Karena kamu masih manusia duniawi. Sebab, jika di antara kamu ada iri hati dan perselisihan bukankah hal itu menunjukkan, bahwa kamu manusia duniawi dan bahwa kamu hidup secara manusiawi?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   Depravity of Man;   Dissension;   Doctrines;   Envy;   Minister, Christian;   Sin;   Strife;   Scofield Reference Index - Judgments;   Thompson Chain Reference - Church;   Divisions;   Strife;   Weakness in Division;   The Topic Concordance - Bearing Fruit;   Carnality;   Division;   Envy;   Immaturity;   Labor;   Rendering;   Strife;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Divisions;   Envy;   Strife;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Church;   Flesh;   Holy spirit;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Baptism of the Holy Spirit;   Body of Christ;   Corinthians, First and Second, Theology of;   Fruit of the Spirit;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Schism;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Carnal;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gnosticism;   Instruction;   1 Corinthians;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Envy;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Body;   Carnal;   Envy;   Example;   Faction;   Flesh ;   Fool;   Holy Spirit;   James Epistle of;   Jealousy;   Jealousy (2);   Metaphor;   Natural;   Unity (2);   Zeal (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Fleshly;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Anthropology;   Bible, the;   Carnal;   Division;   Emulation;   Envy;   Flesh;   Jealousy;   Man, Natural;   Man, New;   Sanctification;   Wisdom;  

Devotionals:

- My Utmost for His Highest - Devotion for March 23;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Karena kamu masih manusia duniawi. Sebab, jika di antara kamu ada iri hati dan perselisihan bukankah hal itu menunjukkan, bahwa kamu manusia duniawi dan bahwa kamu hidup secara manusiawi?
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
sebab kamu lagi di dalam tabiat duniawi. Karena jikalau ada dengki dan pertengkaran di antara kamu, bukankah kamu di dalam tabiat duniawi serta melakukan cara orang dunia?

Contextual Overview

1 And I coulde not speake vnto you brethren, as vnto spirituall, but as vnto carnall [eue] as vnto babes in Christe. 2 I gaue you mylke to drynke, and not meate: For ye then were not stronge, neither are ye as yet. 3 For ye are carnal. Seing then, there is among you enuying, & stryfe, and sectes, are ye not carnall, and walke as men? 4 For whyle one sayth, I am of Paul, and another, I am of Apollo, are ye not carnall?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

for whereas: 1 Corinthians 1:11, 1 Corinthians 6:1-8, 1 Corinthians 11:18, 2 Corinthians 12:20, Galatians 5:15, Galatians 5:19-21, James 3:16, James 4:1, James 4:2

divisions: or, factions

and walk: Hosea 6:7, Mark 7:21, Mark 7:22, Ephesians 2:2, Ephesians 2:3, Ephesians 4:22-24, Titus 3:3, 1 Peter 4:2

as men: Gr. according to man

Reciprocal: Genesis 13:7 - a strife Genesis 30:1 - Rachel envied Numbers 11:29 - Enviest Psalms 17:4 - works Proverbs 21:8 - way Matthew 23:8 - one John 3:26 - he that John 10:19 - General Acts 13:45 - they Acts 17:5 - moved Romans 16:17 - cause 1 Corinthians 3:1 - as unto carnal 1 Corinthians 5:8 - neither 1 Corinthians 12:25 - there 1 Corinthians 13:4 - envieth Philippians 1:15 - even Philippians 2:3 - nothing Philippians 2:14 - disputings Philippians 3:19 - who Colossians 2:18 - fleshly Colossians 3:8 - anger 1 Timothy 6:4 - words James 3:10 - these James 3:14 - if James 3:15 - wisdom 1 Peter 2:1 - envies

Cross-References

Genesis 3:12
And Adam said: The woman whom thou gauest [to be] with me, she gaue me of the tree, and I dyd eate.
Genesis 3:13
And the Lord God sayd vnto the woman: Why hast thou done this? And the woman sayde: the serpent begyled me, and I dyd eate.
Genesis 3:16
But vnto the woman he sayde: I wyll very much multiplie thy sorowe, and thy griefes of chylde bearyng, In sorowe shalt thou bring foorth children: thy desire [shalbe] to thy husbande, and he shall haue the rule of thee.
Genesis 3:17
Unto Adam he sayde: Because thou hast hearkened vnto the voyce of thy wyfe, and hast eaten of the tree concernyng the whiche I commaunded thee, saying, thou shalt not eate of it, cursed is the grounde for thy sake, in sorowe shalt thou eate of it all the dayes of thy lyfe.
Genesis 20:6
And God sayde vnto him in a dreame: I wote well that thou dyddest it in the singlenesse of thy heart: I kept thee also that thou shuldest not sinne against me, and therefore suffred I thee not to touche her.
1 Chronicles 16:22
Touche not myne annoynted: and triumph not ouer my prophetes.
Job 1:11
But laye thyne hand now vpon him, and touche all that he hath, and he shall curse thee to thy face.
Job 2:5
But lay thyne hande nowe vpon hym, and touch [once] his bone and his fleshe, and he shall curse thee to thy face.
Job 19:21
Haue pitie vpon me, haue pitie vpon me, O ye my friendes, for the hande of God hath touched me.
1 Corinthians 7:1
Nowe as concernyng the thinges wherof ye wrote vnto me, it is good for a man not to touche a woman.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For ye are yet carnal,.... The Syriac reads it,

בבסר אנתון, "ye are in the flesh": a phrase the apostle elsewhere uses of men in an unregenerate state; but this is not his meaning here, as before explained, but that carnality still prevailed among them, of which he gives proof and evidence:

for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? They envied each other's gifts and knowledge, strove about words to no profit, entered into warm debates and contentions about their ministers, and went into factions and parties, which were distinguished by the names they were most affected to; in all which they gave too clear evidence of their prevailing carnality, that they too much walked as other men, who make no profession of religion; that they were led by the judgment of men, and were carried away with human passions and inflections; and in their conduct could scarcely be distinguished from the rest of the world. The things that are here mentioned, and with which they are charged, are reckoned by the apostle among the works of the flesh, Galatians 5:19 the phrase, "and divisions", is omitted in the Alexandrian copy, and in some others, and in the Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For ye are yet carnal - Though you are Christians, and are the friends of God in the main, yet your divisions and strifes show that you are yet, in some degree, under the influence of the principles which govern the people of this world. People who are governed solely by the principles of this world, evince a spirit of strife, emulation and contention; and just so far as you are engaged in strife, just so far do you show that you are governed by their principles and feelings.

For whereas - In proof that you are carnal I appeal to your contentions and strifes.

Envying - ζῆλος zēlos, zeal; used here in the sense of envy, as it is in James 3:14, James 3:16. It denotes, properly, any “fervour” of mind (from ζέω zeō), and may be applied to any exciting and agitating passion. The envy here referred to, was that which arose from the superior advantages and endowments which some claimed or possessed over others. Envy everywhere is a fruitful cause of strife. Most contentions in the church are somehow usually connected with envy.

And strife - Contention and dispute.

And divisions - Dissensions and quarrels. The margin correctly renders it “factions.” The idea is, that they were split up into parties, and that those parties were embittered with mutual recriminations and reproaches, as they always are in a church.

And walk as men - Margin. “according to man.” The word “walk” is used often in the Scriptures in the sense of “conduct” or “act.” You conduct yourselves as human beings of this earth, that is, as people commonly do; you evince the same spirit that the great mass of mankind does. Instead of being filled with love; of being united and harmonious as the members of the same family ought to be, you are split up into factions as the people of the world are.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Corinthians 3:3. There is among you envying, and strife, and divisions — ζηλος και ερις και διχοστασιαι. There are three things here worthy of note: these people were wrong in thought, word, and deed. ζηλος, envying refers to the state of their souls; they had inward grudgings and disaffection towards each other. ερις, strife or contention, refers to their words; they were continually disputing and contending whose party was the best, each endeavouring to prove that he and his party were alone in the right. διχοστασιαι, divisions, refers to their conduct; as they could not agree, they contended till they separated from each other, and thus rent the Church of Christ. Thus the envying and grudging led to strife and evil SPEAKING, and this led to divisions and fixed parties. In this state well might the apostle say, Are ye not carnal, and walk as men? Ye act just as the people of the world, and have no more of the spirit of religion than they.


 
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