What is the great glory of being in Christ according to 1 Corinthians 3?
According to 1 Corinthians 3, all things are yours in Christ—whether Paul, Apollos, Peter, the world, life, death, things present, or things to come. This is the great glory: an unfathomable well of wisdom and knowledge, a spiritual dimension believers already possess.
Les explains that Paul brings the Corinthian controversy over divisions to a head. Whether someone identified with Paul, Apollos, Peter, or even the world, life, death, things present, or things to come, Paul says they are all yours. This is the great glory of being in Christ: an unfathomable well of wisdom and knowledge. Les also points to Ephesians, where Paul prays that believers be filled with God's wisdom and know the height, depth, width, and length—four dimensions, though we live in three—showing a spiritual dimension believers already occupy.
Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;
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What does Paul say are all yours in 1 Corinthians 3:22?
In 1 Corinthians 3:22-23 Paul brings the divisions to a head by declaring that whether they belong to Paul, Apollos, Peter, the world, life, death, things present, or things to come, all these are theirs.