It was in weakness, fear, and great trembling that I came to you. My message and my preaching were not accompanied by clever words of wisdom, but by a display of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith would not be based on human wisdom …
Bible Gem 316 – Fear and Trembling (1 Cor 2:3-5)
Bible Gem 315 – Ministering in Weakness (1 Cor 2:1-5)
When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come and tell you about God’s secret with rhetorical language or wisdom. For while I was with you I resolved to know nothing except Jesus Christ and him crucified. It was in weakness, fear, and great trembling …
Bible Gem 314 – No room for boasting (1 Cor 1:26-31)
Brothers, think about your own calling. Not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is nonsense in the world to make the wise feel ashamed. God chose what is weak …
Bible Gem 313 – Wisdom and Foolishness (1 Cor 1:17-25)
For Christ didn’t send me to baptize, but to preach the Good News—and not with clever speech, for fear that the cross of Christ would lose its power. The message of the cross is foolish to those who are headed for destruction! But we who …
Bible Gem 312 – The Baptisms (1 Cor 1:13-16)
Has Christ been divided into factions? Was I, Paul, crucified for you? Were any of you baptized in the name of Paul? Of course not! I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius, for now no one can …
Bible Gem 311 – The Quarreling (1 Cor 1:10-16)
I appeal to you, dear brothers and sisters, by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, to live in harmony with each other. Let there be no divisions in the church. Rather, be of one mind, united in thought and purpose. For some members of …
Bible Gem 310 – Gifts and Other Things (1 Cor 1:4-9)
I always thank my God for you because of the grace of God given you in Christ Jesus. For in him you have become rich in every way-in speech and knowledge of every kind. In this way, our testimony about Christ has been confirmed among …
Bible Gem 309 – Paul’s opening to 1 Corinthians (I Cor 1:1-3)
This letter is from Paul, chosen by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and from our brother Sosthenes. I am writing to God’s church in Corinth, to you who have been called by God to be His own holy people. …
Bible Gem 308 – The Opening (1 Cor 1:1-3)
This letter is from Paul, chosen by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and from our brother Sosthenes. I am writing to God’s church in Corinth, to you who have been called by God to be His own holy people. …
Bible Gem 307 – The Order of Contact and the Missing Letters (1 Cor 4:17, 5:9, 7:1)
Paul’s contacts with the Corinthian church can be reconstructed as follows: Paul visits Corinth for the first time, spending about 18 months there (Acts 18:11). He then leaves Corinth and spends about 3 years in Ephesus (AD 53 to 57). There is regular contact between …