Geneva Bible Notes (1560)1 Corinthians 3

^{1 !} Paul rebuketh the sectes and autours thereof.

^{1 a} Being ingrafted in Christ by faith, we begin to moue by his Spirit, & as we profite in fiath, we growe vp to a ripe age. And here let him take hede that teacheth, lest for mile he giue poyson: for milke and strong meat in effect are one, but onely differ in manner & forme.

^{7 !} No man oght to attribute his saluacion to the ministers, but to God.

^{8 b} He chargeth them with two fautes: the one, that thei attributed to muche to the ministers, and the other, that thei preferred one minister to another.

^{9 c} So made by his grace.

^{10 d} He reproueth the ministers of Corinth, as theachers of curious doctrines & questions.

^{10 !} That they beware erronious doctrines.

^{11 !} Christ is the fundacion of his Church.

^{13 e} Or the time: which is, when the light of the trueth shal expel the darkenes of ignorance, then the curious ostentacion of mans wisdome shalbe broght to noght.

^{13 f} By the tryal of Gods Spirit.

^{15 g} Bothe his labour & rewarde.

^{15 i} As touching his life, if he holde fast the fundacion.

^{15 h} He reproueth them not as false apostles, but as curioius teachers of humaine sciences, as they which lothing at the simplicitie of Gods worde, preache philosophical speculacions.

^{16 !} The dignitie and office bothe of ministers and also of all the faithful.

^{19 k} When the them selues are entangled in the same snares, which thei laid for others.

^{21 l} But in God who worketh by his ministers to his owne glorie & the comfort of his Church.