Jesus Christ called Paul to be an apostle.

Paul desires that they may have grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

God has made them rich in every way, in all speech and with all knowledge.

They did not lack any spiritual gift.

He will do this so that they will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Paul urges them to all agree and for there to be no divisions among them and that they be joined together with the same mind and by the same purpose.

Chloe’s people reported to Paul that factions had developed among the people of the church at Corinth.

Paul meant this: Each one of you says, “I am with Paul,” or “I am with Apollos,” or “I am with Cephas,” or “I am with Christ.”

Paul thanks God for this because this would give them no occasion to say that they were baptized into Paul’s name.

Christ sent Paul to preach the gospel.

The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying.

It is the power of God among those whom God is saving.

God has turned the wisdom of the world into foolishness.

It pleased God to do this because the world in its wisdom did not know God.

God did not call many who were like that.

He did this to shame the wise and to shame what is strong.

God chose what is low and despised in the world and even things that are regarded as nothing.

They were in Christ Jesus because of what God did.

He became for us wisdom from God—our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.

Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.

Paul did not come with elegant speech or wisdom when he proclaimed the mystery of God.

Paul decided to know nothing except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

This was so that their faith might not be in the wisdom of humans, but in the power of God.

They spoke God’s wisdom hidden in mystery–the hidden wisdom that God predestined before the ages for our glory.

If those rulers had known God’s wisdom, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

God revealed those things to them through the Spirit.

Only the Spirit of God knows the deep things of God.

They received the Spirit who is from God so that they might know the things freely given to them by God.

The unspiritual person cannot receive them because they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

Paul said they have the mind of Christ.

Paul said they were still fleshly because jealousy and strife existed among them.

They were servants through whom the Corinthians came to believe in Christ.

God gives the growth.

His work will be revealed in daylight and in fire.

Jesus Christ is the foundation.

The fire will test the work, revealing the quality of what each one has done.

That person will receive a reward.

That person will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, as though escaping through fire.

We are God’s temple, and the Spirit of God lives in us.

God will destroy the person who destroys God’s temple.

Paul says, “…let him become a “fool,” that he may become wise.”

The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise are futile.

He told them to stop boasting, “For all things are yours,” and because, “… you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s”.

The Corinthians should regard them as servants of Christ and stewards of the hidden truths of God.

Stewards must be found faithful.

Paul says the Lord judges him.

He will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the purposes of the hearts.

Paul did it for the sake of the Corinthian believers so they might learn the meaning of the saying, “Not beyond what is written,” so that none of them would think in favor of one against the other.

Paul wishes they did reign so that Paul and his companions could be reigning with them.

Paul says, “We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we are held in dishonor.”

Paul said they were hungry and thirsty, poorly clothed, brutally beaten and homeless.

When they were attacked, they blessed. When they were persecuted, they endured it. When they were slandered, they spoke with kindness.

He wrote them to correct them as his beloved children.

Paul tells them to imitate himself.

Paul sent Timothy to Corinth to remind the believers there of Paul’s ways in Christ.

Some of them were arrogant, acting as though Paul was not coming to them.

The kingdom of God consists in power.

Paul heard that there was sexual immorality there. One of them was sleeping with his father’s wife.

The one who sinned with his father’s wife must be removed from among them.

When the church at Corinth gathered together in the name of the Lord Jesus, they were to hand the sinning man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit might be saved on the day of the Lord.

Paul compares them to yeast.

Paul uses unleavened bread as a metaphor for sincerity and truth.

Paul wrote to them not to associate with sexually immoral people.

Paul did not mean the immoral people of this world. You would have to go out of the world to stay away from them.

He meant for them not to associate with anyone who is called a brother or sister in Christ and who is sexually immoral, greedy, verbally abusive, a drunkard, a swindler, or an idolater.

They are supposed to judge those inside the church.

God judges those who are on the outside.

Paul says they should be able to judge disputes between saints concerning the matters of this life.

The saints will judge the world and the angels.

One believer goes to court against another believer, and that case is placed before a judge who is an unbeliever.

It indicates that this is a defeat for them.

The unrighteous: the sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, those who practice homosexuality, thieves, the greedy, drunkards, slanderers, and swindlers will not inherit the kingdom of God.

They were cleansed and made holy, made right with God in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Paul says he will not be mastered by anything.

Their bodies are members of Christ.

No. May it never be!

The two will become as one flesh.

He becomes one spirit with him.

They sin against their own bodies when they are sexually immoral.

They should glorify God with their bodies because their bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit and because they were bought with a price.

Because of temptations for many immoral acts, each man should have his own wife and each wife should have her own husband.

No. A husband has authority over his wife’s body, and likewise, the wife has authority over her husband’s body.

It is appropriate if both husband and wife mutually agree and set a specific period of time, so that they may devote themselves to prayer.

Paul says it is good for them to remain unmarried, as he is.

They should get married if they burn with passion and cannot exercise self-control.

The wife should not separate from her husband. If she does separate from her husband, she should remain unmarried or be reconciled to him. Also, the husband should not divorce his wife.

If the unbelieving husband or wife is content to live with their spouse, the believing spouse should not divorce the unbeliever.

The believer is to let the unbelieving partner go.

The rule was: Let each one live the life the Lord has assigned them, and to which God called them.

Paul said the uncircumcised should not become circumcised and the circumcised should not try to remove the marks of their circumcision.

If they were a slave when God called them, do not be concerned about it, but if they can become free, they should do so. Even if they were slaves, they are the Lord’s freeman. They should not become the slaves of men.

Paul thought that, because of the impending crisis, it was good for a man to remain unmarried.

They should not seek freedom from their vow to marry the woman.

He said this because he wanted to spare them from the many kinds of trouble that those who marry will have while living.

They should act that way because the system of this world is coming to an end.

It is hard because a believing husband or wife is concerned about the things of the world, how to please his wife or her husband.

The one who chooses not to marry will do even better.

She is bound to her husband for as long as he lives.

She may marry whomever she wishes, but only one who is in the Lord.

Paul addresses the subject of food sacrificed to idols.

Knowledge makes one proud, but love builds up.

No. An idol in this world is nothing, and there is no God but one.

There is only one God the Father. From him are all things, and we live for him.

There is one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom all things exist, and through whom we exist.

Their conscience is corrupted because it is weak.

Food will not recommend us to God. We are not worse if we do not eat, nor better if we do eat it.

We should be careful that our freedom does not become a reason for someone who is weak in faith to stumble.

We sin against the brother or sister that we caused to stumble, and we sin against Christ.

A brother or sister with a weak conscience can be destroyed.

Paul says if his food causes his brother or sister to stumble, he will never eat meat again.

Paul says that because the Corinthian believers were his workmanship in the Lord, they themselves were proof of Paul’s apostleship in the Lord.

Paul said they had the right to eat and drink and the right to take along with them a wife who is a believer.

Paul mentions soldiers, one who plants a vineyard, and one who tends a flock as examples of those who receive benefits or pay from their work.

To support his argument, Paul quoted the command, “Do not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.”

Paul and his companions did not claim this right so they would not cause any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

The Lord commanded that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living from the gospel.

Paul said he could not boast about preaching the gospel, because he had to preach the gospel.

Paul enslaved himself to all people in order to gain more people to God.

Paul became like a Jew in order to win Jews.

Paul became like those outside the law in order to win those outside the law.

He did this so that he might participate in the blessings of the gospel.

Paul said to run to win the prize.

Paul was running so that he might receive a wreath which does not perish.

Paul did this so that after he had preached to others, he himself might not be disqualified.

All were under the cloud and passed through the sea. All were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food and drank the same spiritual drink.

Christ was the rock that followed them.

He was not pleased because their fathers longed for evil things.

God destroyed them by snakes and the destroyer, the angel of death.

They happened as examples for us and they were written down for our instruction.

No temptation has overtaken us that is not common to all humanity.

He has provided the way of escape so that we may be able to endure temptation.

He warns them to run away from idolatry.

The cup is a sharing in the blood of Christ. The bread is a sharing in the body of Christ.

Paul tells them they cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons, and they cannot have fellowship at the table of the Lord and the table of demons.

They offer these things to demons and not to God.

We risk provoking the Lord to jealousy.

No. Instead, each one should seek the good of his neighbor.

You should eat whatever is set before you without asking questions of conscience.

For the sake of the person who informed you and for the sake of the other person’s conscience, you should not eat it.

We should do all things, including eating and drinking, to the glory of God.

We should give no offense to them so that they may be saved.

Paul told them to imitate himself.

Paul was an imitator of Christ.

Paul praised them for remembering him in everything and for holding fast to the traditions just as he delivered them to the Corinthians.

God is the head of Christ.

Christ is the head of every man.

A man is the head of a woman.

He dishonors his head if he prays with his head covered.

Any woman who prays with her head uncovered dishonors her head.

He should not have his head covered because his is the image and glory of God.

The woman was created for the man.

The woman comes from the man, and the man comes from the woman.

Paul says that nature shows it is a disgrace for men to have long hair and a glory for a woman to have long hair.

There must be factions among them so that those who are approved may be recognized among them.

When they ate, each one ate his own food before the others had their meal. One was hungry, and another became drunk.

He said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.”

He said, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”

You are proclaiming the Lord’s death until he comes.

Doing so makes you guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.

Doing so, that person eats and drinks judgment to himself.

Many among them became sick and ill, and some of them died.

He tells them to wait for one another.

Paul wants them to be informed about spiritual gifts.

He cannot say, “Jesus is accursed.”

One can only say “Jesus is Lord” by the Holy Spirit.

He makes possible in every believer different gifts, different ministries, and different kinds of work.

It is given for the benefit of all.

Some of the gifts are faith, gifts of healing, deeds of power, prophecy, ability to distinguish between spirits, various kinds of tongues and interpretation of tongues.

The Spirit gives the gifts to each one individually, as he chooses.

We were all baptized into one body and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

God arranged each part of the body as he designed it.

No. The members of the body that appear to be less honorable are essential.

God has joined all the members together, and he gave more honor to those that lacked it.

He did this so there may be no division within the body, but that the members should care for one another with the same affection.

In the church God has appointed first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, those who do powerful deeds, gifts of healing, those who provide helps, administrators, and those who speak various kinds of tongues.

He tells them to seek the greater gifts.

He says he will show them a more excellent way.

He would become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Without love, he would be nothing.

If he did not have love, he would gain nothing even though he did all these other things.

Love is patient and kind; it does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It is not self serving, not easily angered, nor does it keep a count of wrongs. It does not rejoice in unrighteousness but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, has confidence concerning all things, and endures all things.

Prophecies, knowledge and that which is incomplete will pass away and tongues will cease.

Love never fails.

Paul said when he became an adult he put away childish things.

Faith, hope, and love will remain. The greatest of these is love.

Paul said we should be especially zealous to prophesy.

He is speaking not to people but to God.

The one who prophesies builds up the people, but the one who speaks in tongues builds up himself.

He compares it to instruments like the flute or harp if they do not make distinctive sounds, and also to a trumpet played with an uncertain sound.

He says they should be zealous to abound in gifts for building up the church.

He should pray that he may interpret.

Paul said if he prayed in a tongue, his spirit prayed, but his mind was unfruitful.

Paul said he was going to pray and sing not only with his spirit but also with his mind.

Paul said he had rather speak five words with his understanding so that he might instruct others.

Tongues are a sign to unbelievers, and prophesying is a sign for believers.

They would likely say the believers were insane.

Paul says the unbeliever or outsider would be convicted and examined by all he heard.

He would fall on his face, worship God, and declare that God was really among them.

He says only two or three at the most should speak, each one in turn. If there is no one to interpret the tongue, let each one of them keep silent in the church.

Paul says to let two or three prophets speak while the other people listen with discernment to what is said. If another prophet has an insight, the one who is speaking should be silent.

Paul says the women are not permitted to speak in the churches.

Paul told them to ask their husbands at home.

It was looked on as a disgrace.

Paul said they should acknowledge that the things he wrote to the Corinthian believers were a command of the Lord.

All things should be done properly and in order.

He reminded them about the gospel he proclaimed to them.

Paul told them they would be saved if they held firmly to the word he preached to them.

The parts that were of first importance were that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures.

After he was raised from the dead, Christ appeared to Cephas, to the Twelve, to more that 500 brothers and sisters at once, to James, to all the apostles, and to Paul.

He said this because he persecuted the church of God.

He implied that some of them were saying there was no resurrection from the dead.

Paul says that if there is no resurrection, then even Christ has not been raised from the dead, and the preaching of Paul and others like him is in vain, and the faith of the Corinthians is also in vain.

They have perished.

If this is so, Paul says that of all people, we are most to be pitied.

He calls Christ “the first fruits of those who have died.”

This will happen when Christ comes.

Adam brought death into the world, and by Christ all will be made alive.

Christ will hand over the kingdom to God the Father, when he has abolished all rule and authority and power.

He must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.

Death is the last enemy to be destroyed.

God, the one who put everything in subjection to the Son (himself) is not included as being in subjection (to the Son).

The Son himself will be subjected to the one who subjected everything to him.

Paul declared, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

He commands them be sober, live righteously, and to not keep sinning.

He said some of them have no knowledge of God.

He compares it to a seed that is sown.

It must die.

No, what you sow does not resemble the body that will be.

No. Not all flesh is the same, The flesh of human beings, animals, birds and fish are all different from one another.

There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies.

There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars, and one star differs from another star in glory.

They are sown in decay, in dishonor, and weakness.

What is raised is an imperishable spiritual body; it is raised in glory and power.

He became a living soul.

He became a life-giving spirit.

The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is from heaven.

Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we will also bear the image of the man of heaven.

Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.

We will all be changed.

When the last trumpet sounds, we will be change in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye.

Death will be swallowed up in victory.

The sting of death is sin and the power of sin is the law.

God gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

He tells them to do this because they know that their work in the Lord is not in vain.

Paul directed the churches of Galatia in the same way as the church at Corinth.

He told them that on the first day of the week each of them was to put something aside and store it up as each one was able, so that there would be no collections when Paul came.

It was going to the saints at Jerusalem.

He said he was going to come to them when he passed through Macedonia.

Paul wanted to visit with them for more than a short time, if the Lord permitted.

Paul stayed in Ephesus because a wide door had opened for him, and there were many adversaries.

Paul told the church at Corinth to see that Timothy was with them unafraid. Paul told them not to despise Timothy and also to help Timothy on his way in peace.

He was doing the work of the Lord, just as Paul was.

Paul strongly encouraged Apollos to visit the saints at Corinth.

The household of Stephanas set themselves to the service of the saints.

Paul told them to be in submission to such people.

They made up for the absence of the Corinthian saints and refreshed Paul’s spirit.