1 Corinthians 3:9 For we are laborers together with God: you are God's husbandry, you are God's building. 1. It is a spiritual building. What our Lord Jesus say of His kingdom is true of His building, that it is not of this world — in it, but not of it (John 15:19). It is a building of souls. 2. It is a spacious building of vast extent. "I beheld, and lo, a great multitude," &c. (Revelation 7:9). 3. It is a high building. Though part of it be here below, yet the top of it is as high as heaven. There it is that the glorious angels are, and the spirits of just men made perfect; all of this building. 4. It is a holy building (Ephesians 2:21). Holiness to the Lord is written upon the front of this building. 5. It is a living building. No other is so. The same who are quickened are "built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets' (Ephesians 2:1. 20). 6. It is a light building. This is one thing that makes a building pleasant, and comfortable — many and large windows. All the world besides is in darkness; it is the Church only that hath the true light. 7. It is a secure, a safe, building. The Church of God is such a building as the ark was (1 Peter 3:20, 21). 8. It is a spreading, growing building. (Philip Henry.) Parallel Verses KJV: For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.WEB: For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building. |
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