1st Corinthians Chapter 3 verse 23 Holy Bible

ASV 1stCorinthians 3:23

and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
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BBE 1stCorinthians 3:23

And you are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
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DARBY 1stCorinthians 3:23

and *ye* [are] Christ's, and Christ [is] God's.
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KJV 1stCorinthians 3:23

And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
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WBT 1stCorinthians 3:23


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WEB 1stCorinthians 3:23

and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
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YLT 1stCorinthians 3:23

and ye `are' Christ's, and Christ `is' God's.
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1st Corinthians 3 : 23 Bible Verse Songs

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 23. - And ye are Christ's (see 1 Corinthians 6:19; 1 Corinthians 15:23; Romans 14:8; Galatians 3:29). Christians possess because they are possessed by Christ (Meyer). Christ is our Master, and God our Father (Matthew 23:10). And Christ is God's; because "Christ is equal to the Father as touching his Godhead, but inferior to the Father as touching his manhood." Hence in 1 Corinthians 11:3 he says, "The head of Christ is God;" and in 1 Corinthians 15:28, we read of Christ resigning his mediatorial kingdom, that God may be all in all. Perhaps St. Paul implies the thought that Christ belongs, not to a party, but to God, the Father of us all. But the ultimate climax from Christ to God is found also in 1 Corinthians 4:1: Romans 15:5, etc.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(23) And Christ is God's.--Probably these words were added, not only as being the great climax of the gradual ascent up which the Apostle's thoughts and language have gone in the whole passage, but as avoiding any danger of the party who called themselves by the name of Christ, arrogating anything to themselves from the previous words, "Ye are Christ's," if the passage had concluded with them. Christ is God's as being Mediator (as John 14:28; John 17:3.) There was no danger, in that early age of the Church, of these words being misunderstood (as some have endeavoured to misunderstand them since) as in the least implying a want of absolute identity between the Son, in regard of His Divine Nature, and the Father.