Sunday, August 14, 2011

1 Corinthians 1-6

Chapter 1

True Saints are perfectly united in the same mind and in the same judgment—Preach the gospel and save souls—The gospel is preached by the weak and the simple.

Paul expresses his authority, his gratitude for the saints, and his desires for their well-being . 
Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,
[JST "Paul, an apostle, called of Jesus Christ. . . ]
Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours: ?
Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;
That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;
Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:  [confirm: GR secure, establish, strengthen.]
So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:
Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Paul begs the saints to be unified. 
10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
11 For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
12  Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?
14  I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius;
15  Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name.
16  And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.
17  For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.
18  For the preaching of the cross ? is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
19  For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
20  Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? [All the philosophies of men are as nothing unless they conform to the truths of God.]
The gospel can be a stumblingblock or foolish to some, but to those who accept it, it becomes power and wisdom.
21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
22  For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
23  But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
24  But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
25  Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
26  For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: 
27  But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
28  And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
29  That no flesh should glory in his presence. ?
30  But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

Chapter 2

The gospel is preached by the power of the Spirit—The Spirit reveals all things to the Saints—The unrepentant natural man cannot receive the things of the Spirit of God.
And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.
For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
10  But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11  For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
12  Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
13  Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
15  But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
16  For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

Chapter 3

Milk comes before meat in the Church—Men’s works will be tried by fire—The Saints are the temple of God, and if they are faithful, they will inherit all things.
And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

The Church as a plant or crop (field)
I have aplanted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own rewar according to his own labour.

Ye are God's Building 
For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.
10  According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
11  For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12  Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;

Every man's work tried by fire
13  Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
14  If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
15  If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

Not just any building, but the temple of God

16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
17  If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

Wisdom vs. Foolishness
18  Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
20 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;
22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;
 23 And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.

Chapter 4

Christ’s ministers must be faithful—The Apostles suffer, minister, and keep the faith—The kingdom of God is not in word but in power.
 Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the amysteries of God.
 Moreover it is required in astewards, that a man be found bfaithful.
 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man’s judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.
 For I know nothing aby myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that bjudgeth me is the Lord.
 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the ahidden things of darkness, and will make bmanifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
 And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be apuffed up for one against another.
 For who maketh thee ato differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not breceive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
 Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
 For I think that God hath set forth us the aapostles last, as it were bappointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
 10 We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.
 11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are abuffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;
 12 And alabour, working with our bown chands: being dreviled, we bless; being epersecuted, we fsuffer it:
 13 Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
 14 I write not these things to ashame you, but as my beloved bsons I cwarn you.
 15 For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the agospel.
 16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye afollowers of me.
 17 For this cause have I sent unto you aTimotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.
 18 Now some are apuffed up, as though I would not come to you.
 19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.
 20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in apower.
 21 aWhat will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of bmeekness?

Chapter 5

The Church cannot fellowship sinners—Christ, our passover, was sacrificed for us.
 It is reported commonly that there is afornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.
 And ye are apuffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
 For I verily, aas absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,
 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, aand my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
 To adeliver such an one unto Satan for the bdestruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the cday of the Lord Jesus.
 Your aglorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
 aPurge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are bunleavened. For even Christ our cpassover is sacrificed for us:
 Therefore let us keep the afeast, not with old bleaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of csincerity and truth.
 I wrote unto you in an aepistle not to bcompany with cfornicators:
 10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the acovetous, or bextortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep acompany, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a bdrunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one cno not to deat.
 12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are awithout? do not ye bjudge them that are within?
 13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

Chapter 6

Church members should not fight one another in the courts—The unrighteous will not be saved—True Saints are the temple of the Holy Ghost.
 Dare any of you, having a amatter against another, go to blaw before the unjust, and not before the saints?
 Do ye not know that the saints shall ajudge the bworld? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
 If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.
 I speak to your ashame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take awrong? why do ye not rather bsuffer yourselves to be cdefrauded?
 Nay, ye do wrong, and adefraud, and that your brethren.
 Know ye not that the aunrighteous shall not binherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither cfornicators, nor idolaters, nor dadulterers, nor eeffeminate, nor fabusers of themselves with mankind,
 10 Nor athieves, nor covetous, nor bdrunkards, nor crevilers, nor dextortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
 11 And such were some of you: but ye are awashed, but ye are bsanctified, but ye are justified in the cname of the Lord Jesus, and by the dSpirit of our God.
 12 aAll things are lawful unto me, but all things are not bexpedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
 13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for afornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
 14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also araise up us by his own power.
 15 Know ye not that your bodies are the amembers of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
 16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be aone flesh.
 17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is aone spirit.
 18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
 19 What? know ye not that your abody is the btemple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your cown?
 20 For ye are abought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.





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