Category: A Verse by Verse Study in the Book of 1st Corinthians
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A Verse by Verse Study in the Book of 1st Corinthians, (ESV) with Irv Risch, Chapter 16
What does 1st Corinthians Chapter 16 mean? In the final chapter in Paul’s long letter to the church in Corinth, he gives instructions about a special collection and shares his upcoming travel plans. In this season of his ministry, Paul was raising funds for the Christian Jews living in Jerusalem.…
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A Verse by Verse Study in the Book of 1st Corinthians, (ESV) with Irv Risch, Chapter 15
What does 1st Corinthians Chapter 15 mean? Will Christians really be raised from the dead as Christ was after the crucifixion? Some of the Corinthians did not think so. A group of them either believed false teaching or blended Christian ideas with the Greco-Roman philosophies of their day. Perhaps they…
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A Verse by Verse Study in the Book of 1st Corinthians, (ESV) with Irv Risch, Chapter 14
What does 1st Corinthians Chapter 14 mean? Paul’s instructions to the Corinthians about spiritual gifts began in chapter 12 and concludes here. Between them, the small-but-powerful chapter 13 contains Paul’s warning that spiritual gifts are useless if not practiced with love and he included an action-packed definition of what he…
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A Verse by Verse Study in the Book of 1st Corinthians, (ESV) with Irv Risch, Chapter 13
What does 1st Corinthians Chapter 13 mean? Much of 1 Corinthians 12 corrected misunderstandings about spiritual gifts among the Christians in Corinth. Apparently, some believed that those able to speak in tongues or prophesy were more spiritual than the others. This may have created yet another reason for division in the church,…
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A Verse by Verse Study in the Book of 1st Corinthians, (ESV) with Irv Risch, Chapter 12
What does 1st Corinthians Chapter 12 mean? In 1 Corinthians 12, Paul describes how and why God gives spiritual gifts to Christians. He seems to continue answering issues raised in a previous letter from the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 7:1). From the context, believers in Corinth seem to have been asking why…
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A Verse by Verse Study in the Book of 1st Corinthians, (ESV) with Irv Risch, Chapter 11
What does 1st Corinthians Chapter 11 mean? In 1 Corinthians 11, Paul tackles two issues that needed correction in the Corinthian church: head coverings for women and how to observe the Lord’s Supper together. Paul begins by praising the Corinthian believers for remembering his teaching and maintaining the traditions he taught…
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A Verse by Verse Study in the Book of 1st Corinthians, (ESV) with Irv Risch, Chapter 10
What does 1st Corinthians Chapter 10 mean? Did the Christians in Corinth believe that God would not respond if they dabbled in idol worship? Paul’s warnings in this chapter suggest some of them might have believed that. These comments continue his teaching from the prior chapter, where he pointed out…
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A Verse by Verse Study in the Book of 1st Corinthians, (ESV) with Irv Risch, Chapter 9
What does 1st Corinthians Chapter 9 mean? After making a firm case that those who minister for Christ have a right to be financially supported by the people they serve, Paul will go into detail about why he refuses to receive that benefit from the Corinthians. This is all in…
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A Verse by Verse Study in the Book of 1st Corinthians, (ESV) with Irv Risch, Chapter 8
What does 1st Corinthians Chapter 8 mean? Paul turns to another issue possibly raised by the Corinthians in an earlier letter written to him. This challenges his previous teaching to them about restrictions on eating meat offered to idols. Paul’s response begins in chapter 8 and continues through to the…
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A Verse by Verse Study in the Book of 1st Corinthians, (ESV) with Irv Risch, Chapter 7
What does 1st Corinthians Chapter 7 mean? How should Christians think about marriage? Is it better to be married or not? Should married Christians have sex? Paul provides clear and sometimes surprising answers to these questions in 1 Corinthians chapter 7. In prior chapters, Paul dealt with issues among the…
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A Verse by Verse Study in the Book of 1st Corinthians, (ESV) with Irv Risch, Chapter 6
What does 1st Corinthians Chapter 6 mean? The church in Corinth suffered from serious issues, which Paul set out to address in his letter. Earlier chapters dealt with problems such as divisive factions or tolerance for extreme sin. He confronts two additional issues in 1 Corinthians chapter 6. First, it…
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A Verse by Verse Study in the Book of 1st Corinthians, (ESV) with Irv Risch, Chapter 5
What does 1st Corinthians Chapter 5 mean? To this point, Paul has criticized the Corinthian church for issues such as pride and self-sufficiency. As one might expect, this has led to other problems and mistakes. At the end of chapter 4, Paul noted that the believers in Corinth were behaving…
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A Verse by Verse Study in the Book of 1st Corinthians, (ESV) with Irv Risch, Chapter 4
What does 1st Corinthians Chapter 4 mean? Paul’s words to the Christians in Corinth become more stern and pointed as he comes to the end of the first section of his letter to them. Paul has pointed out that these believers are acting like spiritual children (1 Corinthians 3:1–2). One…
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A Verse by Verse Study in the Book of 1st Corinthians, (ESV) with Irv Risch, Chapter 3
What does 1st Corinthians Chapter 3 mean? Paul made it crystal clear in chapter 1 that the Christians in Corinth would stand guiltless before God on the day of the Lord. Their saving faith in Christ had been affirmed by the fact that they had received gifts from the Holy…
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A Verse by Verse Study in the Book of 1st Corinthians, (ESV) with Irv Risch, Chapter 2
What does 1st Corinthians Chapter 2 mean? Paul begins 1 Corinthians chapter 2 by picking up a train of thought he left behind in the middle of chapter 1. There, he wrote that Christ did not send him to preach the gospel in Corinth with words of eloquent wisdom. To…
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A Verse by Verse Study in the Book of 1st Corinthians, (ESV) with Irv Risch, Chapter 1
What does 1st Corinthians Chapter 1 mean? Paul is writing from Ephesus to the church in Corinth, a place he knows well. He spent over a year and half there, leading people to Christ and helping to establish the church. He is writing to them now to correct some wrong…
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A Verse by Verse Study in the Book of 1st Corinthians, (ESV) with Irv Risch
Survey of 1st Corinthians Book Type: The New Testament’s second Pauline Epistle; the seventh book of the New Testament; the forty-sixth book of the Bible. Author: Paul, along with Sosthenes, as noted in 1 Corinthians 1:1. Sosthenes was most likely acting as Paul’s secretary (also called an amanuensis), writing down Paul’s words. This may…
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