St.Paul-2

(Paul founded the community at Corinth and looked after it as a father. He established it about the year 51 on his second missionary journey. After his departure, Apollos, an Alexandrine Jewish Christian worked there. When Paul was in Ephesus on his third journey, he received very disquieting news about Corinth. Paul wrote this letter from Ephesus about the year 56.)

Ch.1

Discourages divisions. Considers him to be sent by Jesus as an Apostle. He was sent not with the wisdom of human eloquence so that the cross of Christ might not be emptied of its meaning. Christ crucified is a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles. but to those who are called, Jews and Greeks alike, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.(22)

Ch.2

No one knows what pertains to God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit that is from God so that we may understand the things freely given us by God.

Ch.3

I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused growth. (6)…Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that he spirit of God dwells in you? (16)…. The wisdom of this world is foolishness in he eyes of God (18).

Ch.4

We are fools on Christ’s account, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong…When we ridiculed, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered, we respond gently. We have become like world’s rubbish, the scum of all, to this very moment.

Ch.6

(People are urged to bring their cases to the elders and not to the secular courts.)

You must know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is within—the Spirit you have received from God. (19)

Ch.7

(Advice to the married) the general rule is that each one should lead the life that the Lord has assigned him . . .Circumcision counts for nothing…what matters is keeping God’s commandment.

Ch.9

Although I am not bound to anyone, I made myself the slave of all so as to win over as many as possible (19)…What I do is to discipline my own body and master it, for fear that after having preached to others I myself should be rejected.

Ch.10

For all these reasons, let any one who thinks he is standing upright watch out lest he fall. (12) He will not let you be tested beyond your strength. (13)…. Is not the cup of blessing we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Because the loaf of bread is one, we many though we are, are one body. (16)…Imitate me as I imitate Christ.

Ch.11

(Dealing with the headdress of women…Institution of the Eucharist.

Ch.12 (Spiritual gifts)

There are different gifts but the same Spirit; there are different ministries but the same Lord…. But it is one and the same spirit who produces all these gifts (11).

Ch.13

If I speak with human tongues and angelic as well, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong, a clanging symbol (1). Love is patient; love is kind. . Neither does it brood over injuries (8)…. There are in the end three things that last: faith, hope and love and the greatest of these is love.

Ch.15

Christ’s Resurrection guarantees our resurrection. Speaks about the manner of resurrection.

Not all bodily nature is the same. Men have one kind of body…A natural body is put down and a spiritual body comes up.

O Death, where is your victory? O Death, where is your sting?

Ch.16

O Lord come…Maran atha

Second Epistle

(Written in Macedonia around 57 AD during the course of his third Journey

Ch.4

This treasure we possess in earthen vessels…

Ch.5

The lives of all of us are to be revealed before the tribunal of Christ so that each one may receive his recompense, good or bad, according to his life in the body.

Ch.12

I was given a thorn in the flesh …three times I begged the Lord that this might leave me…He said to me: “ My grace is enough for you, for in weakness power reaches perfection.”(9)