1 Corinthians 4:4

4:4 For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not acquitted because of this. The one who judges me is the Lord.

1 Corinthians 5:2-3

5:2 And you are proud! ¹  Shouldn’t you have been deeply sorrowful instead and removed the one who did this ²  from among you? 5:3 For even though I am absent physically, ³  I am present in spirit. And I have already judged the one who did this, just as though I were present. ⁴ 

1 Corinthians 7:7

7:7 I wish that everyone was as I am. But each has his own gift from God, one this way, another that.

1 Corinthians 8:4

8:4 With regard then to eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that “an idol in this world is nothing,” and that “there is no God but one.” ⁵ 

1 Corinthians 9:24-25

9:24 Do you not know that all the runners in a stadium compete, but only one receives the prize? So run to win. 9:25 Each competitor must exercise self-control in everything. They do it to receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one.

1 Corinthians 10:28

10:28 But if someone says to you, “This is from a sacrifice,” do not eat, because of the one who told you and because of conscience ⁶  –

1 Corinthians 11:5

11:5 But any woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered disgraces her head, for it is one and the same thing as having a shaved head.

1 Corinthians 12:8

12:8 For one person is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, and another the message of knowledge according to the same Spirit,

1 Corinthians 14:27

14:27 If someone speaks in a tongue, it should be two, or at the most three, one after the other, and someone must interpret.

1 Corinthians 15:6

15:6 Then he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters ⁷  at one time, most of whom are still alive, ⁸  though some have fallen asleep. ⁹ 

1 Corinthians 15:40-41

15:40 And there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. The glory of the heavenly body is one sort and the earthly another. 15:41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars, for star differs from star in glory.

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¹ tn Or “are puffed up/arrogant,” the same verb occurring in 4:6, 18.

² tn Grk “sorrowful, so that the one who did this might be removed.”

³ tn Grk “in body.”

⁴ tn Verse 3 is one sentence in Greek (“For – even though I am absent in body, yet present in spirit – I have already judged the one who did this, as though I were present”) that has been broken up due to English stylistic considerations.

⁵ sn “An idol in this world is nothing” and “There is no God but one.” Here and in v. 1 Paul cites certain slogans the Corinthians apparently used to justify their behavior (cf. 6:12-13; 7:1; 10:23). Paul agrees with the slogans in part, but corrects them to show how the Corinthians have misused these ideas.

⁶ tc The Byzantine texttype and a few other witnesses (H^c Ψ Ï) essentially duplicate v. 26 at the end of this verse (with γάρ [gar, “for”] in second instead of third position), which itself is a quotation from Ps 24:1 (23:1 LXX). Not only is there a vast number of early, important, and diverse witnesses that lack this extra material (א A B C* D F G H* P 33 81 365 630 1175 1739 1881 2464 latt co), but the quotation seems out of place at this point in the discourse for Paul is here discussing reasons not to partake of food that has been sacrificed to idols. Perhaps scribes felt that since food is from the Lord, to eat meat sacrificed to idols contradicts that belief. Either way, the better witnesses lack the clause which, had it been authentic to v. 28, would have not occasioned such a widespread excision. The evidence is thus compelling for the shorter reading.

⁷ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:10.

⁸ tn Grk “most of whom remain until now.”

⁹ tn The verb κοιμάω (koimaw) literally means “sleep,” but it is often used in the Bible as a euphemism for death when speaking of believers. This metaphorical usage by its very nature emphasizes the hope of resurrection: Believers will one day “wake up” out of death. Here the term refers to death, but “sleep” was used in the translation to emphasize the metaphorical, rhetorical usage of the term.