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1 Corinthians 16:13-24

1 Corinthians 16:13-24

Paul closes 1 Corinthians with rapid exhortations to vigilance, firmness, courage, strength, and all-encompassing love; he honors devoted servants, sh...

1 Corinthians 16:1-12

1 Corinthians 16:1-12

Paul organizes a first-day collection, proportionate to each believer's prosperity, for needy saints in Jerusalem and handles the gift transparently. ...

1 Corinthians 15:29-58

1 Corinthians 15:29-58

Christian baptism, sacrifice, and holiness make sense because the dead will rise. As seed is sown and raised in a transformed form, believers' mortal ...

1 Corinthians 15:12-28

1 Corinthians 15:12-28

Denying bodily resurrection empties apostolic preaching, makes faith futile, leaves sinners condemned, and destroys hope for believers who have died. ...

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

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Paul recalls the gospel the Corinthians received and by which they are saved: Christ died for sins, was buried, rose on the third day according to Scr...

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

Paul restates the gospel the Corinthians received and in which they stand: Christ died for sins according to the Scriptures, was buried, rose on the t...

1 Corinthians 14

1 Corinthians 14

Spiritual gifts in gathered worship must serve intelligible edification rather than private display. Prophecy builds up, exhorts, comforts, and can ex...

1 Corinthians 13

1 Corinthians 13

Even spectacular gifts, knowledge, faith, generosity, and sacrifice are empty without love. Love patiently and truthfully seeks another's good, endure...

1 Corinthians 12:1–31

1 Corinthians 12:1–31

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

The Corinthians' selfish meal divisions contradicted the Lord's Supper, where the bread and cup remember Christ's body and new-covenant blood and proc...

1 Corinthians 11:2-16

1 Corinthians 11:2-16

Paul addresses orderly worship in Corinth through first-century signs of authority and marital status. Bryan distinguishes equal worth from different ...

1 Corinthians 10:14-11:1

1 Corinthians 10:14-11:1

Christians must flee idolatry because they cannot share both the Lord's table and the table of demons. Christian liberty should be exercised with a cl...

1 Corinthians 10:14–33

No Demons Allowed - SDG

Christian liberty never permits fellowship with demons or divided loyalty between idolatry and the Lord's table. Ordinary food may be received thankfu...

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Israel's wilderness history warns baptized and outwardly privileged people not to presume that they cannot fall. Their idolatry, sexual immorality, te...

1 Corinthians 9:19-27

Love not pragmatism

Paul willingly limits his rights and Christian liberties so he will not hinder people from receiving Christ. Like an athlete training for an imperisha...

1 Corinthians 9:19-27

1 Corinthians 9:19-27

Paul willingly disciplines his apostolic rights and Christian liberties so that he can serve Jews, Gentiles, and the weak without becoming a stumbling...

1 Corinthians 9:1–18

1 Corinthians 9:1–18

Paul had a genuine right to receive material support for apostolic gospel labor, just as other workers share in the fruit of their work. Yet he volunt...

1 Corinthians 8

1 Corinthians 8

Knowledge that idols are nothing and that Christians possess liberty is not permission to disregard another believer. Love builds up and willingly sur...

1 Corinthians 7:25-40

1 Corinthians 7:25-40

Marriage and singleness are both good callings, not competing measures of spiritual worth. Because this world is passing away and Christ's kingdom is ...

1 Corinthians 7:10-24

1 Corinthians 7:10-24

Jesus' teaching establishes the permanence of marriage, including when a believer is married to an unbeliever who is willing to remain. If the unbelie...

1 Corinthians 6:12-7:9

1 Corinthians 6:12-7:9

Paul corrects two opposite errors: treating the body as morally irrelevant and treating marriage and embodied life as spiritually inferior. God redeem...

1 Corinthians 6:1-11

1 Corinthians 6:1-11

Christians should possess enough Spirit-given wisdom to resolve ordinary disputes among themselves rather than publicly suing one another before unbel...

1 Corinthians 5

1 Corinthians 5

The Corinthian church tolerates open, unrepentant sexual immorality that even its pagan neighbors condemn. Because one member's sin affects Christ's w...

1 Corinthians 4:14-21

1 Corinthians 4:14-21

Paul warns the Corinthians as beloved children whom he fathered through the gospel, urging them to imitate his Christ-centered life. He sends faithful...