1 Corinthians 16:21

16:21 I, Paul, send this greeting with my own hand.

1 Corinthians 1:13

1:13 Is Christ divided? Paul wasn’t crucified for you, was he? ¹  Or were you in fact baptized in the name of Paul? ² 

1 Corinthians 1:1

Salutation

1:1 From Paul, ³  called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus ⁴  by the will of God, and Sosthenes, our brother,

1 Corinthians 3:4

3:4 For whenever someone says, “I am with Paul,” or “I am with Apollos,” are you not merely human? ⁵ 

1 Corinthians 3:22

3:22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. Everything belongs to you,

1 Corinthians 1:12

1:12 Now I mean this, that ⁶  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 Corinthians 3:5

3:5 What is Apollos, really? Or what is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, and each of us in the ministry the Lord gave us. ⁷ 

[1:13]  ¹ tn Questions prefaced with μή (mh) in Greek anticipate a negative answer. This can sometimes be indicated by using a “tag” at the end in English (here the tag is “was he?”).

[1:13]  ² tn This third question marks a peak in which Paul’s incredulity at the Corinthians’ attitude is in focus. The words “in fact” have been supplied in the translation to make this rhetorical juncture clear.

[1:1]  ¹ tn Grk “Paul.” The word “From” is not in the Greek text, but has been supplied to indicate the sender of the letter.

[1:1]  ² tc 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 Christ” rather than “Christ Jesus” (Ì⁴⁶ B D F G 33 it). The meaning is not affected in either case, but the reading “Christ Jesus” is preferred both because it has somewhat better attestation and because it is slightly more difficult and thus more likely the original (a scribe who found it would be prone to change it to the more common expression). At the same time, Paul is fond of the order “Christ Jesus.” As well, the later Pauline letters almost uniformly use this order in the salutations. Thus, on both external and internal grounds, “Christ Jesus” is the preferred reading here.

[3:4]  ¹ tn Grk “are you not men,” i.e., (fallen) humanity without the Spirit’s influence. Here Paul does not say “walking in accordance with” as in the previous verse; he actually states the Corinthians are this. However, this is almost certainly rhetorical hyperbole.

[1:12]  ¹ tn Or “And I say this because.”

[3:5]  ¹ tn Grk “and to each as the Lord gave.”