1 Corinthians 1:26
Context1:26 Think about the circumstances of your call, 1 brothers and sisters. 2 Not many were wise by human standards, 3 not many were powerful, not many were born to a privileged position. 4
1 Corinthians 12:20
Context12:20 So now there are many members, but one body.
1 Corinthians 8:5
Context8:5 If after all there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords),
1 Corinthians 2:3
Context2:3 And I was with you in weakness and in fear and with much trembling.
1 Corinthians 11:30
Context11:30 That is why many of you are weak and sick, and quite a few are dead. 5
1 Corinthians 12:14
Context12:14 For in fact the body is not a single member, but many.
1 Corinthians 12:22
Context12:22 On the contrary, those members that seem to be weaker are essential,
1 Corinthians 16:9
Context16:9 because a door of great opportunity stands wide open for me, 6 but there are many opponents.
1 Corinthians 12:12
Context12:12 For just as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body – though many – are one body, so too is Christ.
1 Corinthians 10:17
Context10:17 Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all share the one bread.
1 Corinthians 4:15
Context4:15 For though you may have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, because I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
1 Corinthians 10:33
Context10:33 just as I also try to please everyone in all things. I do not seek my own benefit, but the benefit 7 of many, so that they may be saved.
1 Corinthians 16:19
Context16:19 The churches in the province of Asia 8 send greetings to you. Aquila and Prisca 9 greet 10 you warmly in the Lord, with the church that meets in their house.
1 Corinthians 16:12
Context16:12 With regard to our brother Apollos: I strongly encouraged him to visit you with the other brothers, 11 but it was simply not his intention to come now. 12 He will come when he has the opportunity.


[1:26] 1 tn Grk “Think about your calling.” “Calling” in Paul’s writings usually refers to God’s work of drawing people to faith in Christ. The following verses show that “calling” here stands by metonymy for their circumstances when they became Christians, leading to the translation “the circumstances of your call.”
[1:26] 2 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:10.
[1:26] 3 tn Grk “according to the flesh.”
[1:26] 4 tn The Greek word ευγενής (eugenh") refers to the status of being born into nobility, wealth, or power with an emphasis on the privileges and benefits that come with that position.
[11:30] 5 tn Grk “are asleep.” The verb κοιμάω (koimaw) literally means “sleep,” but it is often used in the Bible as a euphemism for the death of a believer.
[16:9] 9 tn Grk “for a door has opened wide to me, great and effective.”
[10:33] 13 tn Although the Greek word translated “benefit” occurs only once in this verse, the Greek article occurs twice. This indicates an implied repetition of the term, which has been included twice in the translation for the sake of clarity and English style.
[16:19] 17 tn Grk “the churches of Asia”; in the NT “Asia” always refers to the Roman province of Asia, made up of about one-third of the west and southwest end of modern Asia Minor. Asia lay to the west of the region of Phrygia and Galatia. The words “the province of” are supplied to indicate to the modern reader that this does not refer to the continent of Asia.
[16:19] 18 sn On Aquila and Prisca see also Acts 18:2, 18, 26; Rom 16:3-4; 2 Tim 4:19. In the NT “Priscilla” and “Prisca” are the same person. The author of Acts uses the full name Priscilla, while Paul uses the diminutive form Prisca.
[16:19] 19 tc The plural form of this verb, ἀσπάζονται (aspazontai, “[they] greet”), is found in several good
[16:12] 21 tn Grk “with the brothers.”
[16:12] 22 tn Grk “it was simply not the will that he come now.”