Category: 1 Corinthians 1
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If You Must Boast
(1 Corinthians 1:26-31) If you must boast, than boast in the Lord Jesus Christ. These are the final words in this first chapter of Corinthians that Paul writes to the church both then and now. As a general rule, and as we are told in other places, boasting is not good. Boasting of yourself is…
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God’s Wisdom
(1 Corinthians 1:18-25) Paul begins this section with statements about the foolishness of what we as Christians believe. He talks about it as the foolishness of God and the folly of the word of the gospel and the death of Jesus Christ. He makes the point that to the rest of the world, what we…
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Is Christ Divided?
(1 Corinthians 1:10-17) As I read this section of scripture there was one question that Paul posed to the church at Corinth that strikes to the heart of the church down to this day. At the start of verse 13 he writes, “Is Christ divided?” The answer to that question is clearly…No. Christ is certainly…
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Gifts From God
(1 Corinthians 1:4-9) In these few verses Paul gives thanks to God for what God has done with the church at Corinth. At a high level when we read between the lines we see that Paul is expressing thanks for the work done in the knowledge that this work is not his own work, nor…
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Sanctified As Saints
(1 Corinthians 1:1-3) It is often easy to gloss over the first few verses of the letters in the New Testament as they generally contain things like greetings to the brethren and to whom the letters are addressed. But it is worth looking at how these greetings are made for there are often insights we…
