22Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;
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And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; …
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? …
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. …
For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-23)Here the apostle founds an exhortation against over-valuing their teachers on what he had just said, and on the consideration that they had an equal interest in all their ministers: Therefore let no man glory in men (1 Cor. 3:21)-- forget that their ministers are men, or pay that deference to them that is due only to God, set them at the head of parties, have them in immoderate esteem and admirati…
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