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Does Paul contradict Jesus by saying not to eat with sinners?
In 1 Corinthians, Paul is writing to the church at Corinth after hearing reports over various matters. One of them is sexual immorality within the church at Corinth. Of this matter he says in 1 ...
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Does 1 Corinthians 15:44 refer to Dualist Anthropology?
Does 1 Corinthians 15:44 refer to Dualist Anthropology?
Dualist Anthropology is the view of the body-soul relation as dualistic, the body and the soul being different as the soul that inhabits the ...
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Are the commandments concerning covering & uncovering the head for public assemblies only or in private as well? (1 Corinthians Chapter 11)
Are the commandments concerning covering & uncovering the head for public assemblies only or in private as well?
I have read commentaries on these verses and most agree that these commandments ...
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1 Corinthians 4:10 meant to be an irony?
Paul lambasts the church at Corinth for sectarianism which had led to jealousy and strife.
But later the apostle Paul sounds conciliatory lauding them with attributes which seemed non existent within ...
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What changed between 1 Corinthians 15:24ff and Ephesians 1:22?
In 1 Corinthians 15:24ff Paul suggests that Jesus is at the beginning of the process of ruling:
[1Co 15:22-28 CSB] 22 For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. 23 But ...
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In what sense is the word ἀνακρίνει used in 1 Corinthians 2:15?
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1 Corinthians 2:15
15ὁ δὲ πνευματικὸς ἀνακρίνει [τὰ] πάντα, αὐτὸς δὲ ὑπ’ οὐδενὸς ἀνακρίνεται.
1 Corinthians 2:15 KJV
15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is ...
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The scriptures say there is no “God but one,” then there are ‘many gods,’ who or what are they?
The scriptures say there is no “God but one,” then there are ‘many gods,’ who or what are they?
DNKJB 1 Corinthians 8:4-6 “As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in ...
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In 1 Corinthians 15:24-28 who's who?
Who is doing what in this passage? I'm trying to identify the referents for the various pronouns. I've supplied a couple of the more obvious ones as examples.
ESV 1 Corinthians 15:
24Then ...
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How many letters did Paul write to the Corinthians?
This comment is made in the Nelson Chronological Study Bible:
Scholars disagree over whether 2 Corinthians is a single letter, or was compiled from several shorter letters. Some think there were four ...
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In 1 Corinthians 6:2-3 why does Paul seem to expect the Corinthians to know that they will judge angels?
I take the questions beginning with "Do ye not know" and "Know ye not" to be rhetorical with the meaning "Of course you know that you shall judge the world and angels":
1Co 6:2 Do ye not know that ...
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1 Corinthians 14:26 Use of the word brethren in Paul's writing [duplicate]
When Paul uses the Greek 'adelphoi' in his letters e.g "What then shall we say, brothers and sisters?" (1 Corinthians 14:26) is he meaning brothers and sisters (as the NIV translates) or just men?
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In 1 Corinthians 10:10-12 how precarious does Paul want the saints to understand their situation be?
Paul writes:
1Co 10:10 nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the
Destroyer. 1Co 10:11 Now these things happened to them as an
example, but they were written down for our ...
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In 1 Corinthians 5:8, who is to observe what feast?
When Paul says "let us therefore celebrate the festival" does he refer to:
the feast of unleavened bread?
the feast of unleavened bread and the Passover?
the Passover?
the christian faith but with ...
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In 1 Corinthians 8:6, who does Paul say is the "one God"?
The father?
The father and the lord Jesus Christ?
The "trinity", but with one "person" left out?
(ESV) 1 Cor 8:6 yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom
are all things and for whom we ...
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What did Paul mean by a "new lump" in 1 Cor 5:7?
What did Paul mean by a "new lump" in 1 Cor 5:7?:
YLT 1Co 5:6 Not good is your glorying; have ye not known that a
little leaven the whole lump doth leaven? 1Co 5:7 cleanse out,
therefore, the ...
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