1 Corinthians 1:5

1:5 For you were made rich ¹  in every way in him, in all your speech and in every kind of knowledge ²  –

1 Corinthians 1:16

1:16 (I also baptized the household of Stephanus. Otherwise, I do not remember whether I baptized anyone else.)

1 Corinthians 1:19

1:19 For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will thwart the cleverness of the intelligent.” ³ 

1 Corinthians 1:23

1:23 but we preach about a crucified Christ, ⁴  a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles.

1 Corinthians 11:14

11:14 Does not nature ⁵  itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace for him,

1 Corinthians 11:20

11:20 Now when you come together at the same place, you are not really eating the Lord’s Supper.

1 Corinthians 12:18

12:18 But as a matter of fact, God has placed each of the members in the body just as he decided.

1 Corinthians 14:4

14:4 The one who speaks in a tongue builds himself up, ⁶  but the one who prophesies builds up the church.

1 Corinthians 14:17

14:17 For you are certainly giving thanks well, but the other person is not strengthened.

1 Corinthians 15:11

15:11 Whether then it was I or they, this is the way we preach and this is the way you believed.

1 Corinthians 15:43

15:43 It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;

1 Corinthians 16:16

16:16 also to submit to people like this, and to everyone who cooperates in the work and labors hard.

1 Corinthians 16:24

16:24 My love be with all of you in Christ Jesus. ⁷ 

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¹ sn Made rich refers to how God richly blessed the Corinthians with an abundance of spiritual gifts (cf. v. 7).

² sn Speech and knowledge refer to the spiritual gifts God had blessed them with (as v. 7 confirms). Paul will discuss certain abuses of their gifts in chapters 12-14, but he thanks God for their giftedness.

³ sn A quotation from Isa 29:14.

⁴ tn Or “Messiah”; Grk “preach Christ [Messiah] crucified,” giving the content of the message.

⁵ sn Paul does not mean nature in the sense of “the natural world” or “Mother Nature.” It denotes “the way things are” because of God’s design.

⁶ sn The Greek term builds (himself) up does not necessarily bear positive connotations in this context.

⁷ tc Although the majority of mss (א A C D Ψ 075 Ï lat bo) conclude this letter with ἀμήν (amhn, “amen”), such a conclusion is routinely added by scribes to NT books because a few of these books originally had such an ending (cf. Rom 16:27; Gal 6:18; Jude 25). A majority of Greek witnesses have the concluding ἀμήν in every NT book except Acts, James, and 3 John (and even in these books, ἀμήν is found in some witnesses). It is thus a predictable variant. Although far fewer witnesses lack the valedictory particle (B F 0121 0243 33 81 630 1739* 1881 sa), their collective testimony is difficult to explain if the omission is not authentic.