1 Corinthians 1:1-3
SALUTATION AND THANKSGIVING. The salutation of the letter:... [ Continue Reading ]
SALUTATION AND THANKSGIVING. The salutation of the letter:... [ Continue Reading ]
PAUL, CALLED TO BE AN APOSTLE OF JESUS CHRIST THROUGH THE WILL OF GOD, AND SOSTHENES, OUR BROTHER,... [ Continue Reading ]
UNTO THE CHURCH OF GOD WHICH IS AT CORINTH, TO THEM THAT ARE SANCTIFIED IN CHRIST JESUS, CALLED TO BE SAINTS, WITH ALL THAT IN EVERY PLACE CALL UPON THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, OUR LORD, BOTH THEIRS AND OURS:... [ Continue Reading ]
GRACE BE UNTO YOU AND PEACE FROM GOD, OUR FATHER, AND FROM THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. On account of the special conditions obtaining in Corinth at the time of his writing, Paul finds it necessary to emphasize his office and the manner of his entering upon his ministry. He is called, chosen, as an apostl... [ Continue Reading ]
I THANK MY GOD ALWAYS ON YOUR BEHALF FOR THE GRACE OF GOD WHICH IS GIVEN YOU BY JESUS CHRIST,... [ Continue Reading ]
The thanksgiving of the apostle:... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT IN EVERYTHING YE ARE ENRICHED BY HIM, IN ALL UTTERANCE AND IN ALL KNOWLEDGE,... [ Continue Reading ]
EVEN AS THE TESTIMONY OF CHRIST WAS CONFIRMED IN YOU,... [ Continue Reading ]
SO THAT YE COME BEHIND IN NO GIFT, WAITING FOR THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST;... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO SHALL ALSO CONFIRM YOU UNTO THE END THAT YE MAY BE BLAMELESS IN THE DAY OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD IS FAITHFUL, BY WHOM YE WERE CALLED UNTO THE FELLOWSHIP OF HIS SON, JESUS CHRIST, OUR LORD. In spite of the conditions which Paul knew to be existing in Corinth, he must break forth in a hymn of thankfulness. "The injury of the ungrateful Corinthians was great, but their ingratitude did not cons... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW I BESEECH YOU, BRETHREN, BY THE NAME OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THAT YE ALL SPEAK THE SAME THING, AND THAT THERE BE NO DIVISIONS AMONG YOU; BUT THAT YE BE PERFECTLY JOINED TOGETHER IN THE SAME MIND AND IN THE SAME JUDGMENT.... [ Continue Reading ]
A REPROOF OF DISHARMONY. 1 Corinthians 1:10... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IT HATH BEEN DECLARED UNTO ME OF YOU, MY BRETHREN, BY THEM WHICH ARE OF THE HOUSE OF CHLOE, THAT THERE ARE CONTENTIONS AMONG YOU.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW THIS I SAY, THAT EVERY ONE OF YOU SAITH, I AM OF PAUL; AND I OF APOLLOS; AND I OF CEPHAS; AND I OF CHRIST.... [ Continue Reading ]
I S CHRIST DIVIDED? WAS PAUL CRUCIFIED FOR YOU? OR WERE YE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF PAUL?... [ Continue Reading ]
I THANK GOD THAT I BAPTIZED NONE OF YOU BUT CRISPUS AND GAIUS,... [ Continue Reading ]
lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I BAPTIZED ALSO THE HOUSEHOLD OF STEPHANAS; BESIDES, I KNOW NOT WHETHER I BAPTIZED ANY OTHER. The apostle takes up at once the question which caused him the deepest concern in the congregation at Corinth, that of the threatening disruption. He beseeches them, he exhorts them, he most earnestly b... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WISDOM OF GOD AND THE FOOLISHNESS OF MEN. The foolishness of the Gospel-message:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR CHRIST SENT ME NOT TO BAPTIZE, BUT TO PREACH THE GOSPEL; NOT WITH WISDOM OF WORDS, LEST THE CROSS OF CHRIST SHOULD BE MADE OF NONE EFFECT.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE PREACHING OF THE CROSS IS TO THEM THAT PERISH FOOLISHNESS; BUT UNTO US WHICH ARE SAVED IT IS THE POWER OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IT IS WRITTEN, I WILL DESTROY THE WISDOM OF THE WISE, AND WILL BRING TO NOTHING THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE PRUDENT. The apostle here characterizes his office, trying to make it clear to the Corinthian Christians wherein the ministry of the Gospel really consists. He says of himself that Christ did... [ Continue Reading ]
WHERE IS THE WISE? WHERE IS THE SCRIBE? WHERE IS THE DISPUTER OF THIS WORLD? HATH NOT GOD MADE FOOLISH THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD?... [ Continue Reading ]
The foolishness of God wiser than men:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR AFTER THAT, IN THE WISDOM OF GOD, THE WORLD BY WISDOM KNEW NOT GOD, IT PLEASED GOD BY THE FOOLISHNESS OF PREACHING TO SAVE THEM THAT BELIEVE.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE JEWS REQUIRE A SIGN, AND THE GREEKS SEEK AFTER WISDOM;... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WE PREACH CHRIST CRUCIFIED, UNTO THE JEWS A STUMBLING-BLOCK AND UNTO THE GREEKS FOOLISHNESS,... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT UNTO THEM WHICH ARE CALLED, BOTH JEWS AND GREEKS, CHRIST THE POWER OF GOD AND THE WISDOM OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
BECAUSE THE FOOLISHNESS OF GOD IS WISER THAN MEN, AND THE WEAKNESS OF GOD IS STRONGER THAN MEN. In a series of rhetorical questions the apostle brings out the foolishness of this world's wisdom when compared with the wisdom of God. Where is the wise? Where are all the wise men of the world with all... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR YE SEE YOUR CALLING', BRETHREN, HOW THAT NOT MANY WISE MEN AFTER THE FLESH, NOT MANY MIGHTY, NOT MANY NOBLE, ARE CALLED;... [ Continue Reading ]
The status of the believers:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT GOD HATH CHOSEN THE FOOLISH THINGS OF THE WORLD, TO CONFOUND THE WISE; AND GOD HATH CHOSEN THE WEAK THINGS OF THE WORLD TO CONFOUND THE THINGS WHICH ARE MIGHTY;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND BASE THINGS OF THE WORLD, AND THINGS WHICH ARE DESPISED, HATH GOD CHOSEN, YEA, AND THINGS WHICH ARE NOT, TO BRING TO NAUGHT THINGS THAT ARE,... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT NO FLESH SHOULD GLORY IN HIS PRESENCE.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT OF HIM ARE YE IN CHRIST JESUS, WHO OF GOD IS MADE UNTO US WISDOM, AND RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND SANCTIFICATION, AND REDEMPTION,... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT, ACCORDING AS IT IS WRITTEN, HE THAT GLORIES, LET HIM GLORY IN THE LORD. The miraculous working of the power and wisdom of God is exemplified in the case of the Corinthian Christians themselves. The apostle urges them to consider, to contemplate earnestly, their calling, the act of God's callin... [ Continue Reading ]