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1 Corinthians 15:4-7 a physical, or spiritual heavenly appearance
I came across this question that I had never heard before.
At the beginning of 1 Corinthians 15, we have the famous and ancient Creed of the early Christian church, however, some argue that due to the ...
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Does the sower and the planter receive different rewards in 1 Corinthians 3:6-8?
1 Corinthians 3:6-7 ESV
I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. 7 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.
After asserting two ...
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Why does Paul include Christ in 1 Corinthians 1:12?
1 Corinthians 1:12
What I mean is that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” or “I follow Apollos,” or I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.”
Paul rebukes the church of Corinth for choosing to ...
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How to understand 1 Timothy 2:9 in light of 1 Corinthians 11:15?
1 Timothy 2:9 NIV
9 I also want the women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety,
adorning themselves, not with elaborate hairstyles or gold or
pearls or expensive clothes,
But in the letter ...
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Was Paul offering an olive branch after hitting hard in 1 Corinthians 15:10?
1 Corinthians 15:10 NIV
10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. 11 ...
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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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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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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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1 Cor 13:10 - Did Paul use "perfect" [teleios] in the sense of maturity? [duplicate]
After reading a discussion on the above mentioned verse, I am still left with a question.
Doesn't the context determine that, "perfect" [2. teleios (τέλειος, 5046), “complete, perfect,” from telos, “...
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