Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Christ himself will confirm and strengthen believers and keep them firm through to the end, so that they may stand blameless and without fault in the day of the Lord Jesus Christ when he comes. The end and that day mean the end of the age and the future second coming, not events completed in the lives of the Corinthian Christians, so the promise belongs to Christians waiting for his return. That final standing depends on his sustaining work and not on human wisdom or strength, for the assurance rests on God's faithfulness and the believers' calling into fellowship with his Son. It is given in thanksgiving that believers have received God's grace, are enriched in utterance and knowledge, have Christ's testimony confirmed in them, and come behind in no gift while waiting for his coming, and those gifts remain available to prepare the waiting church for his return. Those thus confirmed are to all speak the same thing with no divisions but be perfectly joined together in the same mind and judgment, with their different gifts blended together in his work, for fellowship with Christ is expressed in fellowship and loving harmony with fellow believers.
Promise and Setting
Christ himself will confirm, strengthen, establish and keep believers firm through to the end, so that they may stand blameless and without fault in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ when he comes. Their final standing depends on his sustaining work, not human wisdom or strength. The end and that day mean the end of the age and the future second coming, not events completed in the lives of the Corinthian Christians. The promise therefore belongs to Christians waiting for Christ's return.
The promise stands in thanksgiving that believers have received God's grace, are enriched in all utterance and knowledge, have Christ's testimony confirmed in them, and come behind in no gift while waiting for the coming. Those gifts remain available to the waiting church and help prepare it for his return. This confirming is the close of thanks for grace that enriched in speech and knowledge, confirmed Christ's testimony, and left lacking no gift while waiting for the Lord's coming.
Though spoken to the church of God at Corinth, the instruction is directed to every place where companies of saints have faith in Jesus Christ. It describes the condition of truly converted souls, whom Jesus Christ keeps firm to the end so they stand without blame in the day of his coming. It belongs to every soul newly come to the faith and to all in every place who call on the name of Jesus Christ, who are sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be saints. As such they have pledged by baptism to a ministry of good works in seeking to save others who do not know the truth.
The verse belongs to the instruction of the first, second, and third chapters of First Corinthians, which is of the greatest importance to all who have entered the Lord's army. That instruction declares the weakness of the church comes from envy and strife cherished by its members. This is carnality shown when one says I am of Paul and another I am of Apollos, withdrawing from some and binding up with others for reasons existing only in the imagination.
Faithfulness and Fellowship
Final standing to the end depends on his sustaining work, not on human wisdom or strength, for he himself will keep believers firm so that they may stand blameless in the day of the Lord Jesus Christ. This assurance rests on God's faithfulness and on the believers' calling into fellowship with his Son, and it belongs to those waiting for his coming while receiving grace and gifts from him. It is a wonderful possibility placed within the reach of all who believe, realized by those united with Christ while waiting for his coming.
Fellowship with Christ is expressed in fellowship and loving harmony with fellow believers, for those thus confirmed are to all speak the same thing with no divisions, but to be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. This confirming belongs to those enriched by him in all utterance and in all knowledge through grace, in whom the testimony of Christ is confirmed so that they come behind in no gift while waiting for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. The different gifts entrusted to them are to be blended together in his work, joining practical medical missionary work with the gospel message and the third angel's message rather than controlling or tearing apart what is not understood. It is his will that this oneness rest on a plain thus saith the Lord, with heartfelt thanksgiving as the Holy Spirit molds and fashions them, producing sober watchfulness, united faith and love, hope of salvation, increasing and abounding love, peace among brethren, and fruit-bearing obedience that proves co-labor with him.
The confirming includes continuing growth toward his purity and holiness while waiting for his coming. God's work in human character is his finest workmanship, and the truths of the chapter can be taken into practice as a real possibility for the Christian life. Heavenly intelligences wait to cooperate with the human agent to reshape character according to the divine model and confirm him blameless unto the end. The human agent must choose whether to do that God-given work in cooperation with them or to bend all effort toward shaping character after the worldly pattern.
Christ alone is able now to keep the souls of all committed to his trust against that day and to deliver them in their perplexities. He who proclaimed I am the resurrection and the life is able when the last trump shall sound to raise his saints from the grave and clothe them with immortality, giving them everlasting victory over death and the grave. He has invited them to come to him and has promised to help them whatever their extremity, and to give them peace and rest as they wear his yoke and learn of him lessons of meekness and lowliness. He leaves not his heritage to the judgment of any man.
Comfort and Obedience
The promise gives precious assurance and comfort and encouragement to God's children for the time when trouble in the world increases and they must suffer trial and opposition while waiting for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. It assures that Christ himself will keep them firm and will strengthen and preserve and confirm them unto the end, so that they may be blameless and stand without fault in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ when He comes. It sustains a faith that will stand the test of trial and opposition. This keeping holds because He is leading out a people and getting them ready for translation, and this requires getting back into right lines of work by standing as sentinels for God, laboring unitedly, being willing servants of all, and following in the footsteps of Jesus as the great Exemplar.
While waiting for the coming of the Lord, the promise calls for aggressive work and personal diligence and personal reformation of character. That diligence keeps believers from the delusive infatuations pressed in on every side and from principles and practices that oppose religious freedom and seek to control conscience. The promise belongs to every soul newly come to the faith and to all in every place who call on the name of Jesus Christ, who are sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be saints. It is to be read in the churches and carried into practice by ministers and teachers and all believers, producing sober watchfulness and faith and love united and hope of salvation and increasing and abounding love and peace among brethren and being perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment with no divisions, and fruit-bearing obedience that proves co-labor with Christ. The first and second chapters to which it belongs are to be read with deep interest and prayer for understanding, so that the truths there revealed may be comprehended and put into practice, giving fitness for heaven through the knowledge of God rather than human wisdom or might or riches.
The confirming means Christ takes charge of the affections of those who love and honor God, causing them to center upon proper objects. A man thus honors God by keeping his wife first in his affections, respecting and cherishing and loving her as his wife and the mother of his children. He guards mind and heart carefully so that impurity and sentimentalism and affection for the husband or wife of another may not abide there.
The verse also gives a warning from God that all must heed and study. All are to become intelligent about the body as a habitation and to preserve health instead of closing the eyes while light shines all around. They are to stop encouraging and educating wrong appetites indulged at the expense of health, and to glorify God in body and spirit.
Christ himself will confirm and strengthen believers and keep them firm through to the end, so that they may stand blameless and without fault in the day of the Lord Jesus Christ when he comes. The end and that day mean the end of the age and the future second coming, not events completed in the lives of the Corinthian Christians, so the promise belongs to Christians waiting for his return. That final standing depends on his sustaining work and not on human wisdom or strength, for the assurance rests on God's faithfulness and the believers' calling into fellowship with his Son. It is given in thanksgiving that believers have received God's grace, are enriched in utterance and knowledge, have Christ's testimony confirmed in them, and come behind in no gift while waiting for his coming, and those gifts remain available to prepare the waiting church for his return. Those thus confirmed are to all speak the same thing with no divisions but be perfectly joined together in the same mind and judgment, with their different gifts blended together in his work, for fellowship with Christ is expressed in fellowship and loving harmony with fellow believers.
Promise and Setting
Christ himself will confirm, strengthen, establish and keep believers firm through to the end, so that they may stand blameless and without fault in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ when he comes. Their final standing depends on his sustaining work, not human wisdom or strength. The end and that day mean the end of the age and the future second coming, not events completed in the lives of the Corinthian Christians. The promise therefore belongs to Christians waiting for Christ's return.
The promise stands in thanksgiving that believers have received God's grace, are enriched in all utterance and knowledge, have Christ's testimony confirmed in them, and come behind in no gift while waiting for the coming. Those gifts remain available to the waiting church and help prepare it for his return. This confirming is the close of thanks for grace that enriched in speech and knowledge, confirmed Christ's testimony, and left lacking no gift while waiting for the Lord's coming.
Though spoken to the church of God at Corinth, the instruction is directed to every place where companies of saints have faith in Jesus Christ. It describes the condition of truly converted souls, whom Jesus Christ keeps firm to the end so they stand without blame in the day of his coming. It belongs to every soul newly come to the faith and to all in every place who call on the name of Jesus Christ, who are sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be saints. As such they have pledged by baptism to a ministry of good works in seeking to save others who do not know the truth.
The verse belongs to the instruction of the first, second, and third chapters of First Corinthians, which is of the greatest importance to all who have entered the Lord's army. That instruction declares the weakness of the church comes from envy and strife cherished by its members. This is carnality shown when one says I am of Paul and another I am of Apollos, withdrawing from some and binding up with others for reasons existing only in the imagination.
Faithfulness and Fellowship
Final standing to the end depends on his sustaining work, not on human wisdom or strength, for he himself will keep believers firm so that they may stand blameless in the day of the Lord Jesus Christ. This assurance rests on God's faithfulness and on the believers' calling into fellowship with his Son, and it belongs to those waiting for his coming while receiving grace and gifts from him. It is a wonderful possibility placed within the reach of all who believe, realized by those united with Christ while waiting for his coming.
Fellowship with Christ is expressed in fellowship and loving harmony with fellow believers, for those thus confirmed are to all speak the same thing with no divisions, but to be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. This confirming belongs to those enriched by him in all utterance and in all knowledge through grace, in whom the testimony of Christ is confirmed so that they come behind in no gift while waiting for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. The different gifts entrusted to them are to be blended together in his work, joining practical medical missionary work with the gospel message and the third angel's message rather than controlling or tearing apart what is not understood. It is his will that this oneness rest on a plain thus saith the Lord, with heartfelt thanksgiving as the Holy Spirit molds and fashions them, producing sober watchfulness, united faith and love, hope of salvation, increasing and abounding love, peace among brethren, and fruit-bearing obedience that proves co-labor with him.
The confirming includes continuing growth toward his purity and holiness while waiting for his coming. God's work in human character is his finest workmanship, and the truths of the chapter can be taken into practice as a real possibility for the Christian life. Heavenly intelligences wait to cooperate with the human agent to reshape character according to the divine model and confirm him blameless unto the end. The human agent must choose whether to do that God-given work in cooperation with them or to bend all effort toward shaping character after the worldly pattern.
Christ alone is able now to keep the souls of all committed to his trust against that day and to deliver them in their perplexities. He who proclaimed I am the resurrection and the life is able when the last trump shall sound to raise his saints from the grave and clothe them with immortality, giving them everlasting victory over death and the grave. He has invited them to come to him and has promised to help them whatever their extremity, and to give them peace and rest as they wear his yoke and learn of him lessons of meekness and lowliness. He leaves not his heritage to the judgment of any man.
Comfort and Obedience
The promise gives precious assurance and comfort and encouragement to God's children for the time when trouble in the world increases and they must suffer trial and opposition while waiting for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. It assures that Christ himself will keep them firm and will strengthen and preserve and confirm them unto the end, so that they may be blameless and stand without fault in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ when He comes. It sustains a faith that will stand the test of trial and opposition. This keeping holds because He is leading out a people and getting them ready for translation, and this requires getting back into right lines of work by standing as sentinels for God, laboring unitedly, being willing servants of all, and following in the footsteps of Jesus as the great Exemplar.
While waiting for the coming of the Lord, the promise calls for aggressive work and personal diligence and personal reformation of character. That diligence keeps believers from the delusive infatuations pressed in on every side and from principles and practices that oppose religious freedom and seek to control conscience. The promise belongs to every soul newly come to the faith and to all in every place who call on the name of Jesus Christ, who are sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be saints. It is to be read in the churches and carried into practice by ministers and teachers and all believers, producing sober watchfulness and faith and love united and hope of salvation and increasing and abounding love and peace among brethren and being perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment with no divisions, and fruit-bearing obedience that proves co-labor with Christ. The first and second chapters to which it belongs are to be read with deep interest and prayer for understanding, so that the truths there revealed may be comprehended and put into practice, giving fitness for heaven through the knowledge of God rather than human wisdom or might or riches.
The confirming means Christ takes charge of the affections of those who love and honor God, causing them to center upon proper objects. A man thus honors God by keeping his wife first in his affections, respecting and cherishing and loving her as his wife and the mother of his children. He guards mind and heart carefully so that impurity and sentimentalism and affection for the husband or wife of another may not abide there.
The verse also gives a warning from God that all must heed and study. All are to become intelligent about the body as a habitation and to preserve health instead of closing the eyes while light shines all around. They are to stop encouraging and educating wrong appetites indulged at the expense of health, and to glorify God in body and spirit.