1 Corinthians 2:8
Context2:8 None of the rulers of this age understood it. If they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
1 Corinthians 3:15
Context3:15 If someone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss. 1 He himself will be saved, but only as through fire.
1 Corinthians 3:17
Context3:17 If someone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, which is what you are.
1 Corinthians 7:9
Context7:9 But if they do not have self-control, let them get married. For it is better to marry than to burn with sexual desire. 2
1 Corinthians 7:11
Context7:11 (but if she does, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband), and a husband should not divorce his wife.
1 Corinthians 7:13
Context7:13 And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is happy to live with her, she should not divorce him.
1 Corinthians 7:15
Context7:15 But if the unbeliever wants a divorce, let it take place. In these circumstances the brother or sister is not bound. 3 God has called you in peace.
1 Corinthians 7:21
Context7:21 Were you called as a slave? 4 Do not worry about it. But if indeed you are able to be free, make the most of the opportunity.
1 Corinthians 7:40
Context7:40 But in my opinion, she will be happier if she remains as she is – and I think that I too have the Spirit of God!
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 8:10
Context8:10 For if someone weak sees you who possess knowledge dining in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience be “strengthened” 5 to eat food offered to idols?
1 Corinthians 9:2
Context9:2 If I am not an apostle to others, at least I am to you, for you are the confirming sign 6 of my apostleship in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 10:27-28
Context10:27 If an unbeliever invites you to dinner and you want to go, eat whatever is served without asking questions of conscience. 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 7 –
1 Corinthians 11:15
Context11:15 but if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is given to her for a covering. 8
1 Corinthians 13:1
Context13:1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
1 Corinthians 14:11
Context14:11 If then I do not know the meaning of a language, I will be a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker a foreigner to me.
1 Corinthians 14:23-24
Context14:23 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? 14:24 But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or uninformed person enters, he will be convicted by all, he will be called to account by all.
1 Corinthians 14:27-28
Context14:27 If someone speaks in a tongue, it should be two, or at the most three, one after the other, and someone must interpret. 14:28 But if there is no interpreter, he should be silent in the church. Let him speak to himself and to God.
1 Corinthians 14:35
Context14:35 If they want to find out about something, they should ask their husbands at home, because it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in church. 9
1 Corinthians 14:37
Context14:37 If anyone considers himself a prophet or spiritual person, he should acknowledge that what I write to you is the Lord’s command.
1 Corinthians 15:2
Context15:2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you – unless you believed in vain.
1 Corinthians 15:12
Context15:12 Now if Christ is being preached as raised from the dead, 10 how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?
1 Corinthians 15:29
Context15:29 Otherwise, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? 11 If the dead are not raised at all, then why are they baptized for them?
1 Corinthians 15:44
Context15:44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
1 Corinthians 16:7
Context16:7 For I do not want to see you now in passing, since I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord allows.
1 Corinthians 16:10
Context16:10 Now if Timothy comes, see that he has nothing to fear among you, for he is doing the Lord’s work, as I am too.
1 tn The translation “[will] be punished” is given here by BDAG 428 s.v. ζημιόω 2. But the next clause says “he will be delivered” and so “suffering loss” is more likely to refer to the destruction of the “work” by fire or the loss of the reward that could have been gained.
2 tn Grk “than to burn,” a figure of speech referring to unfulfilled sexual passion.
3 sn Interpreters differ over the implication of the statement the brother or sister is not bound. One view is that the believer is “not bound to continue the marriage,” i.e., not so slavishly tied to the instruction about not divorcing (cf. vv. 10-11) that he or she refuses to face reality when the unbelieving spouse is unwilling to continue the relationship. In this view divorce is allowable under these circumstances, but not remarriage (v. 11 still applies: remain unmarried or be reconciled). The other view is that the believer is “not bound in regard to marriage,” i.e., free to remain single or to remarry. The argument for this view is the conceptual parallel with vv. 39-40, where a wife is said to be “bound” (a different word in Greek, but the same concept) as long as her husband lives. But if the husband dies, she is “free” to marry as she wishes, only in the Lord. If the parallel holds, then not bound in v. 15 also means “free to marry another.”
4 tn Traditionally, “servant” (KJV), though almost all modern translations render the word as “slave” here.
5 tn Or “built up”; This is the same word used in v. 1b. It is used ironically here: The weak person is “built up” to commit what he regards as sin.
6 tn Grk “the seal.”
7 tc The Byzantine texttype and a few other witnesses (Hc 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.
8 sn No word for veil or head covering occurs in vv. 3-14 (see the note on authority in v. 10). That the hair is regarded by Paul as a covering in v. 15 is not necessarily an argument that the hair is the same as the head covering that he is describing in the earlier verses (esp. v. 10). Throughout this unit of material, Paul points out the similarities of long hair with a head covering. But his doing so seems to suggest that the two are not to be identified with each other. Precisely because they are similar they do not appear to be identical (cf. vv. 5, 6, 7, 10, 13). If head covering = long hair, then what does v. 6 mean (“For if a woman will not cover her head, she should cut off her hair”)? This suggests that the covering is not the same as the hair itself.
9 tc Some scholars have argued that vv. 34-35 should be excised from the text (principally G. D. Fee, First Corinthians [NICNT], 697-710; P. B. Payne, “Fuldensis, Sigla for Variants in Vaticanus, and 1 Cor 14.34-5,” NTS 41 [1995]: 240-262). This is because the Western witnesses (D F G ar b vgms Ambst) have these verses after v. 40, while the rest of the tradition retains them here. There are no
10 tn Grk “that he has been raised from the dead.”
11 sn Many suggestions have been offered for the puzzling expression baptized for the dead. There are up to 200 different explanations for the passage; a summary is given by K. C. Thompson, “I Corinthians 15,29 and Baptism for the Dead,” Studia Evangelica 2.1 (TU 87), 647-59. The most likely interpretation is that some Corinthians had undergone baptism to bear witness to the faith of fellow believers who had died without experiencing that rite themselves. Paul’s reference to the practice here is neither a recommendation nor a condemnation. He simply uses it as evidence from the lives of the Corinthians themselves to bolster his larger argument, begun in 15:12, that resurrection from the dead is a present reality in Christ and a future reality for them. Whatever they may have proclaimed, the Corinthians’ actions demonstrated that they had hope for a bodily resurrection.