1 Corinthians 3:23
and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 17:5While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”
John 17:18As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world.
Romans 14:8For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.
1 Corinthians 7:22For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant.
1 Corinthians 11:3But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
2 Corinthians 10:7Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 3:22-23
Against Overvaluing Teachers. ( a. d. 57.) 21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours; 22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; 23 And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's. Here the apostle founds an exhortation against over-valuing their teachers on what he had just said, and on the consideration that they had an equal interest in all their ministers: Therefore let no man glory in men ( v. 21 )—forget that… Read the whole commentary →