1 Corinthians 1:4

Thanksgiving

1:4 I always thank my God for you because of the grace of God that was given to you in Christ Jesus.

1 Corinthians 1:8

1:8 He ¹  will also strengthen you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 1:13

1:13 Is Christ divided? Paul wasn’t crucified for you, was he? ²  Or were you in fact baptized in the name of Paul? ³ 

1 Corinthians 1:24

1:24 But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.

1 Corinthians 1:30

1:30 He is the reason you have a relationship with Christ Jesus, ⁴  who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

1 Corinthians 2:16--3:1

2:16 For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to advise him? ⁵  But we have the mind of Christ.

Immaturity and Self-deception

3:1 So, brothers and sisters, ⁶  I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, ⁷  as infants in Christ.

1 Corinthians 10:4

10:4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they were all drinking from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

1 Corinthians 12:12

Different Members in One Body

12:12 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 15:3

15:3 For I passed on to you as of first importance ⁸  what I also received – that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures,

1 Corinthians 15:12

No Resurrection?

15:12 Now if Christ is being preached as raised from the dead, ⁹  how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?

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¹ tn Grk “who,” referring to Christ. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

² 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?”).

³ 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.

⁴ tn Grk “of him you are in Christ Jesus.”

⁵ sn A quotation from Isa 40:13.

⁶ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:10.

⁷ tn Grk “fleshly [people]”; the Greek term here is σαρκινός (BDAG 914 s.v. 1).

⁸ tn Grk “among (the) first things.”

⁹ tn Grk “that he has been raised from the dead.”