1 Corinthians 1:8

1:8 He¹ will also strengthen you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 4:12

4:12 We do hard work, toiling with our own hands. When we are verbally abused, we respond with a blessing, when persecuted, we endure,

The Rights of an Apostle

9:1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

Learning from Israel’s Failures

10:1 For I do not want you to be unaware,² brothers and sisters,³ that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea,

10:11 These things happened to them as examples and were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

12:24 but our presentable members do not need this. Instead, God has blended together the body, giving greater honor to the lesser member,

15:3 For I passed on to you as of first importance⁴ what I also received – that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures,

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

²tn Grk “ignorant.”

³tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:10.

⁴tn Grk “among (the) first things.”