1 CORINTHIANS
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Today we start reading 2 Corinthians. After writing 1 Corinthians, it seems that Paul actually briefly visited Corinth (a visit referred to in 2 Corinthians 2 as ‘a painful visit’) and then wrote them a letter which was not preserved for us, addressing some of the matters he observed on that visit. 2 Corinthians is
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Daily Readings: 1 Corinthians 16 and Psalm 119:145-160 1 Now about the collection for the Lord’s people: do what I told the Galatian churches to do. 2 On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with your income, saving it up, so that when I
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Daily Readings: 1 Corinthians 15 and Psalm 119:145-160 3 For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures… In this letter, the apostle Paul was responding to
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Daily Readings: 1 Corinthians 14 and Psalm 119:129-144 12 So it is with you. Since you are eager for gifts of the Spirit, try to excel in those that build up the church. 26 … Everything must be done so that the church may be built up. 40 But everything should be done in a fitting and
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Daily Readings: 1 Corinthians 13 and Psalm 113-128 1 Corinthians 13 sits snugly between two chapters about spiritual gifts. And that is by no means random. Despite the fact that most of us associate 1 Corinthians 13 with weddings and romantic love, it is actually all about the “the most excellent way” to exercise one’s
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Daily Readings: 1 Corinthians 12 and Psalm 119:97-112 1 Corinthians is filled with Paul’s responses to issues confronting the Church in Corinth. In chapter 12 he turns to the question of spiritual gifts. Their pagan past had exposed them to many people with what looked a lot like the spiritual gifts they now saw in
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Daily Readings: 1 Corinthians 11 and Psalm 119: 65-96 In 1 Corinthians 11, Paul’s concern was to teach the Christian community in Corinth to worship the Lord with the honour due to Him. That is the heart of everything that follows. When it comes to codes of dress for Christians attending worship, different people and
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Daily Readings: 1 Corinthians 10 and Psalm 119:49-64 1 Corinthians 9 highlighted the importance of a single-minded pursuit of Christlikeness and God’s will in all things. In 1 Cor. 10, Paul uses the experiences of the Israelites in the wilderness to warn us against the temptations that might derail us from that pursuit. He warns
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Daily Readings: 1 Corinthians 9 and Psalm 119:33-48 The Olympic Games is the most famous of all the ancient athletic competitions, but Corinth was the centre for the “Isthmian Games”, which was second in prestige only to the ancient Olympics. It is these games Paul had in mind as an illustration when he wrote to
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Daily Readings: 1 Corinthians 8 and Psalm 119:17-32 In 1 Corinthians 8 Paul dealt with a controversial issue for Christians living in a majority pagan population who worshiped at the temples of the many Greek gods. To provide context: A portion of the meat of every animal sacrificed at a pagan temple belonged to the
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