Please read as much as you can of I Corinthians. If you are short of time, read Chapters 1-3, Chapters 6-7, and Chapters 12-13. Choose any one verse in I Corinthians you think particularly interesting, important, or hard to understand, and explain why you think this verse interesting, important, or hard to understand.
Monday, October 7, 2013
I Corinthians
Please read as much as you can of I Corinthians. If you are short of time, read Chapters 1-3, Chapters 6-7, and Chapters 12-13. Choose any one verse in I Corinthians you think particularly interesting, important, or hard to understand, and explain why you think this verse interesting, important, or hard to understand.
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1 Corinthians 7:8-9, “I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.” This is a very interesting idea that Paul has created. As humans we are sinful and fortification is one of those sins. To stop many aspects of this sin people get married, so it is no longer fortification, but a beautiful thing. However many people today do not understand this concept. People end up screwing up their lives, because they cannot control themselves. Marriage is a very daunting thing, but if love is true it can be one of the best things in the world. That is why you have couples who are married for many years. This is becoming less and less common however. More and more people are getting divorced, some for actual reasons that the Bible would agree while some have reason that the Bible disagrees with. However we cannot see the future so crazy things are bound to happen. Paul has created the idea of how much better of an idea marriage is; we understood it to be a wondrous thing and Paul just moves it on to a whole new level. -Kelly Longden
ReplyDelete1 Corinthians 13:4-8: "Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. It is never boasful nor conceited. It is neither rude nor selfish, it does not take offense. It is not easily angered. Love takes no pleasure in other people's sins but delights with the truth. It is always ready to protect, to trust, to hope, and to edure whatever comes. Love never fails.
ReplyDeleteI think this verse is important because it isn't just talking about the love we have for that special someone. It is talking about the love we have for God, friends, family, and ourselves. But more importantly, it is talking about the never failing love of our patient God.-Melinda Quade
I think a majority of the Chapter 14 is very interesting. Chapter 12 leads up to it with Paul's message on the gifts of the Holy Spirit, including tongues and prophesy.
ReplyDeleteGrowing up in an Assembly of God church, and then branching out into non-denominational churches, I've always been exposed to people speaking in tongues, and prophets to either interpret their word or deliver another.
In Chapter 14, Paul says, "Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy" (14:1).
"I wish you all spoke with tongues, but even more that you prophesied; for he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks with tongues, unless indeed he interprets, that the church may receive edification" (14:5).
"Even so you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, let it be for the edification of the church that you seek to excel" (14:12).
I never thought of one gift being greater than the other, but now that I think about it, Paul makes perfect sense. Without interpretation, the tongues mean nothing, except to perhaps one who coincidently speaks one of the plethora of foreign languages that it could be (and it has happened before). Paul believes that we should do anything we can to build up the church, and with a prophetic word of encouragement or constructive criticism, we can do just that. It's like our direct line with God.
I think 1 Corinthians 12:27 is really interesting. "Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it." Just like the human body has hands and feet and a nose and various other parts so does the body of Christ. All parts of the body do different things but all parts are important for the sake of the body as a whole. Believers should be thankful for every part of Christ's body as it carries out its duties and every part should honor the other parts and rejoice with them. Apart from each other they are nothing but in Christ they are whole. And that is both hard to understand and interesting. -Zach Kuhlman
ReplyDelete1 Corinthians 13:13 "So these three things continue forever: faith, hope, and love. And the greatest of these is love. In the verses earlier in chapter 13 love is described and how great it really is. Also earlier in 1 Corinthians we see marriage as a big topic, with marriage come love for one's spouse. It says in 1 Corinthians 13:13 "the greatest of these is love." I feel this not only true for God's love to his people on Earth, but he also gave us love to give to other people, as we are made in the image of God, and it is on us to share that love, and thank God for his love. This is why I feel this passage is important because in a way it ties it all together.
ReplyDelete1 Corinthians 5:12-13- For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? God judges those outside. "Purge the evil person from among you."
ReplyDeleteThese are a couple of interesting verses. Paul is telling the Corinthians to judge those who claim to be Christians but they aren't supposed to judge those who are unbelievers. One of the biggest arguments that people have with Christianity is that we judge when we are told not to, but from this passage there appear to be certain instances in which we are supposed to expel people from the church body. Really interesting stuff.
1 Corinthians 1:26-31 Consider your own calling, brothers. Not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. Rather, God chose the foolish of the world to shame the wise, and God chose the weak of the world to shame the strong, and God chose the lowly and despised of the world, those who count for nothing, to reduce to nothing those who are something, so that no human being might boast before God. It is due to him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, as well as righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, so that, as it is written, "Whoever boasts, should boast in the Lord."
ReplyDeleteI find this passage true. The people who are, in a way, saved by God are the ones who were lowly and practically had nothing. Those are and were the people who truly put their faith in the Lord and they were shown mercy and gratitude.
-Cheryl Hansen
1 Corinthians 7:25-40
ReplyDeleteThis passage gives instructions on marriage and notes some of the problems of the unmarried. Paul writes: "Because of the present crisis, I think that it is good for you to remain as you are." I understand the crisis going on in Corinth, the debauchery, etc. So Paul is instructing people to either not get married or to act as if they aren't married so they can focus on the Lord's affairs. At first when I read this I didn't understand it because I thought getting married may help curb some of the bad things going on in Corinth, but it goes deeper than that. Paul wants people to first be devoted to the Lord, and then they can find a partner who is also devoted to the Lord.
1 Corinthians 12:12
ReplyDelete"As as body is one though it has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body, so also Christ."
I think this is an interesting passage because it shows the unity of the Church. Though the early Christians came from many backgrounds they had become united by a single purpose and action in Christ's crucifixion. Baptism serves as the introduction into that organization as the same Spirit touched each of them.
-Zack Krage
1 Cor 3:18
ReplyDelete"Let no one deceive himself. if anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise."
I thought this passage was kind of interesting because its a clever way to word what Paul is trying to say. basically if someone thinks they know more than others, you should let them keep thinking that until they mess up and make a fool of themselves, that way they can learn from it. -Sean McCracken