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1 Corinthians 3:4
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2 I fed you with amilk and not with solid food; bfor until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able;  
3 for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and1 behaving like mere men?  
4 For when one says, “I am of Paul,” and another, “I am of Apollos,” are you not carnal?

Watering, Working, Warning

5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but aministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one?  
6 aI planted, bApollos watered, cbut God gave the increase.  
7 So then aneither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.  
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1 Corinthians 3:4

For when one saith (otan gar legh tiv). Indefinite temporal clause with the present subjunctive of repetition (Robertson, Grammar, p. 972). Each instance is a case in point and proof abundant of the strife.

Of Paul (Paulou). Predicate genitive, belong to Paul, on Paul's side.

Of Apollos (Apollw). Same genitive, but the form is the so-called Attic second declension. See the nominative Apollwv in verse I Corinthians 3:5.

Men (anqrwpoi). Just mere human creatures (anqrwpoi, generic term for mankind), in the flesh (sarkinoi), acting like the flesh (sarkikoi), not pneumatikoi, as if still yuxikoi. It was a home-thrust. Paul would not even defend his own partisans.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Corinthians 3:4:

Acts 18:28
2 Corinthians 1:14

 

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