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Text -- 1 Corinthians 1:1-22 (NET)

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Salutation
1:1 From Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Sosthenes, our brother, 1:2 to the church of God that is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, and called to be saints, with all those in every place who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours. 1:3 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!
Thanksgiving
1:4 I always thank my God for you because of the grace of God that was given to you in Christ Jesus. 1:5 For you were made rich in every way in him, in all your speech and in every kind of knowledge1:6 just as the testimony about Christ has been confirmed among you1:7 so that you do not lack any spiritual gift as you wait for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1:8 He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1:9 God is faithful, by whom you were called into fellowship with his son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Divisions in the Church
1:10 I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to agree together, to end your divisions, and to be united by the same mind and purpose. 1:11 For members of Chloe’s household have made it clear to me, my brothers and sisters, that there are quarrels among you. 1:12 Now I mean this, that each of you is saying, “I am with Paul,” or “I am with Apollos,” or “I am with Cephas,” or “I am with Christ.” 1:13 Is Christ divided? Paul wasn’t crucified for you, was he? Or were you in fact baptized in the name of Paul? 1:14 I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius, 1:15 so that no one can say that you were baptized in my name! 1:16 (I also baptized the household of Stephanus. Otherwise, I do not remember whether I baptized anyone else.) 1:17 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel– and not with clever speech, so that the cross of Christ would not become useless.
The Message of the Cross
1:18 For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 1:19 For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will thwart the cleverness of the intelligent.” 1:20 Where is the wise man? Where is the expert in the Mosaic law? Where is the debater of this age? Has God not made the wisdom of the world foolish? 1:21 For since in the wisdom of God the world by its wisdom did not know God, God was pleased to save those who believe by the foolishness of preaching. 1:22 For Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks ask for wisdom,
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Apollos a Jewish man from Alexandria who was taught by Aquila and Priscilla
 · Cephas a nickname for Simon, son of John
 · Chloe a prominent woman well known to the Corinthian believers
 · Corinth a town located on the narrow isthmus connecting the Greek mainland with the Peloponnesus Peninsula to the south
 · Crispus a leader of the Jewish synagogue at Corinth, baptized by Paul
 · Gaius a man or men who were involved with the apostles Paul and John
 · Greek the language used by the people of Greece
 · Jews the people descended from Israel
 · Sosthenes the man in charge of the synagogue in Corinth who was beaten
 · Stephanas a man who, with his family, were the first converts in Achaia and who Paul baptised


Dictionary Themes and Topics: CORINTHIANS, FIRST EPISTLE TO THE | Revelation of Christ | Jesus, The Christ | PAUL, THE APOSTLE, 5 | Church | Wisdom | Philosophy | Boasting | Grace of God | Wise, wisdom | Reasoning | Cross | Corinth | Baptism | Strife | TEXT AND MANUSCRIPTS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT | Dissension | PAPYRUS | GRACE | Call | more
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NET Notes: 1Co 1:1 Many important mss, as well as several others (א A Ψ 1739 1881 Ï sy), have a reversed order of these words and read “Jesus Chris...

NET Notes: 1Co 1:2 Grk “theirs and ours.”

NET Notes: 1Co 1:3 Grk “Grace to you and peace.”

NET Notes: 1Co 1:5 Speech and knowledge refer to the spiritual gifts God had blessed them with (as v. 7 confirms). Paul will discuss certain abuses of their gifts in cha...

NET Notes: 1Co 1:7 The revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ refers to the Lord’s return, when he will be revealed (cf. the reference to the day of our Lord Jesus Ch...

NET Notes: 1Co 1:8 Grk “who,” referring to Christ. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the transla...

NET Notes: 1Co 1:10 Grk “that you be united in/by the same mind and in/by the same purpose.”

NET Notes: 1Co 1:11 Or “rivalries, disputes.”

NET Notes: 1Co 1:12 Or “And I say this because.”

NET Notes: 1Co 1:13 This third question marks a peak in which Paul’s incredulity at the Corinthians’ attitude is in focus. The words “in fact” hav...

NET Notes: 1Co 1:14 The oldest and most important witnesses to this text, as well as a few others (א* B 6 1739 sams bopt), lack the words τῷ θε...

NET Notes: 1Co 1:17 Grk “would not be emptied.”

NET Notes: 1Co 1:19 A quotation from Isa 29:14.

NET Notes: 1Co 1:20 Grk “the scribe.” The traditional rendering of γραμματεύς (grammateu") as “sc...

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