Discovery Box1 Corinthians 1:8 
Context1:8 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 1:17
Context1:17 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel – and not with clever speech, so that the cross of Christ would not become useless. 2
1 Corinthians 2:16--3:1
Context2:16 For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to advise him? 3 But we have the mind of Christ.
3:1 So, brothers and sisters, 4 I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, 5 as infants in Christ.
1 Corinthians 4:3
Context4:3 So for me, it is a minor matter that I am judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.
1 Corinthians 4:8
Context4:8 Already you are satisfied! Already you are rich! You have become kings without us! I wish you had become kings so that we could reign with you!
1 Corinthians 5:5
Context5:5 turn this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved 6 in the day of the Lord. 7
1 Corinthians 7:29
Context7:29 And I say this, brothers and sisters: 8 The time is short. So then those who have wives should be as those who have none,
1 Corinthians 8:5
Context8:5 If after all there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords),
1 Corinthians 9:24
Context9:24 Do you not know that all the runners in a stadium compete, but only one receives the prize? So run to win.
1 Corinthians 9:27
Context9:27 Instead I subdue my body and make it my slave, so that after preaching to others I myself will not be disqualified.
1 Corinthians 10:7
Context10:7 So do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.” 9
1 Corinthians 11:32
Context11:32 But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned with the world.
1 Corinthians 12:12
Context12:12 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 14:22-23
Context14:22 So then, tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers. Prophecy, however, is not for unbelievers but for believers. 14:23 So if the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and unbelievers or uninformed people enter, will they not say that you have lost your minds?
1 Corinthians 15:45
Context15:45 So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living person”; 10 the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
1 Corinthians 16:6
Context16:6 and perhaps I will stay with you, or even spend the winter, so that you can send me on my journey, wherever I go.
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 Grk “would not be emptied.”
3 sn A quotation from Isa 40:13.
4 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:10.
5 tn Grk “fleshly [people]”; the Greek term here is σαρκινός (BDAG 914 s.v. 1).
6 tn Or perhaps “turn this man over to Satan for the destruction of your fleshly works, so that your spirit may be saved…”; Grk “for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be saved.” This is one of the most difficult passages in the NT, and there are many different interpretations regarding what is in view here. (1) Many interpreters see this as some sort of excommunication (“turn this man over to Satan”) which in turn leads to the man’s physical death (“the destruction of the flesh”), resulting in the man’s ultimate salvation (“that [his] spirit may be saved…”). (2) Others see the phrase “destruction of the flesh” as referring to extreme physical suffering or illness that stops short of physical death, thus leading the offender to repentance and salvation. (3) A number of scholars (e.g. G. D. Fee, First Corinthians [NICNT], 212-13) take the reference to the “flesh” to refer to the offender’s “sinful nature” or “carnal nature,” which is “destroyed” by placing him outside the church, back in Satan’s domain (exactly how this “destruction” is accomplished is not clear, and is one of the problems with this view). (4) More recently some have argued that neither the “flesh” nor the “spirit” belong to the offender, but to the church collectively; thus it is the “fleshly works” of the congregation which are being destroyed by the removal of the offender (cf. 5:13) so that the “spirit,” the corporate life of the church lived in union with God through the Holy Spirit, may be preserved (cf. 5:7-8). See, e.g., B. Campbell, “Flesh and Spirit in 1 Cor 5:5: An Exercise in Rhetorical Criticism of the NT,” JETS 36 (1993): 331-42. The alternate translation “for the destruction of your fleshly works, so that your spirit may be saved” reflects this latter view.
7 tc The shorter reading, κυρίου (kuriou, “Lord”), is found in Ì46 B 630 1739 pc; κυρίου ᾿Ιησοῦ (kuriou Ihsou, “Lord Jesus”) is read by Ì61vid א Ψ Ï; κυρίου ᾿Ιησοῦ Χριστοῦ (kuriou Ihsou Cristou, “Lord Jesus Christ”) by D pc; and κυρίου ἡμῶν ᾿Ιησοῦ Χριστοῦ (kuriou Jhmwn Ihsou Cristou, “our Lord Jesus Christ”) by A F G P 33 al. The shorter reading is preferred as the reading that best explains the other readings, especially in view of the mention of “Jesus” twice in the previous verse.
8 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:10.
9 tn The term “play” may refer to idolatrous, sexual play here, although that is determined by the context rather than the meaning of the word itself (cf. BDAG 750 s.v. παίζω).
sn A quotation from Exod 32:6.
