1st Corinthians Chapter 14 verse 36 Holy Bible
What? was it from you that the word of God went forth? or came it unto you alone?
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What? was it from you that the word of God went out? or did it only come in to you?
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Did the word of God go out from you, or did it come to you only?
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What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?
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What? Was it from you that the word of God went out? Or did it come to you alone?
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From you did the word of God come forth? or to you alone did it come?
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 36-40. - Appeal and summary. Verse 36. - What? An indignant exclamation. Came the word of God out from you? Are you the authors of the Christian system, that you are to lay down rules about it? No rebuke was too strong for the pretensions of these Corinthians. Or came it unto you only? Is no one to be considered but yourselves? Have you no respect for Christian custom? end that when you were by no means the first Gentile Church in Europe (1 Thessalonians 1:8)?
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(36) What?--The church at Corinth had on some of these points acted at variance with the practice of the other churches, and in a manner which assumed an independence of St. Paul's apostolic authority. He therefore asks them, with something of sarcastic indignation, whether they are the source from whence the word of God has come, or whether they think themselves its sole recipients, that they should set themselves above the other churches, and above him?