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1 Corinthians 3:3-5
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1 Corinthians 3:3-5
New English Translation
3 for you are still influenced by the flesh.[a] For since there is still jealousy and dissension among you, are you not influenced by the flesh and behaving like unregenerate people?[b] 4 For whenever someone says, “I am with Paul,” or “I am with Apollos,” are you not merely human?[c]
5 What is Apollos, really? Or what is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, and each of us in the ministry the Lord gave us.[d]
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- 1 Corinthians 3:3 tn Or “are still merely human”; Grk “fleshly.” Cf. BDAG 914 s.v. σαρκικός 2, “pert. to being human at a disappointing level of behavior or characteristics, (merely) human.” The same phrase occurs again later in this verse.
- 1 Corinthians 3:3 tn Grk “and walking in accordance with man,” i.e., living like (fallen) humanity without the Spirit’s influence; hence, “unregenerate people.”
- 1 Corinthians 3:4 tn Grk “are you not men,” i.e., (fallen) humanity without the Spirit’s influence. Here Paul does not say “walking in accordance with” as in the previous verse; he actually states the Corinthians are this. However, this is almost certainly rhetorical hyperbole.
- 1 Corinthians 3:5 tn Grk “and to each as the Lord gave.”
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