God in 1 Corinthians

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1. 1:1

   Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,

2. 1:2

   To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:

3. 1:3

   Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

4. 1:4

   I always thank my God for you because of the grace He has given you in Christ Jesus.

5. 1:9

   God, who has called you into fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.

6. 1:14

   I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius,

7. 1:18

   For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

8. 1:20

   Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

9. 1:21

   For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know Him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.

10. 1:24

    but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

11. 1:25

    For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.

12. 1:27

    But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.

13. 1:28

    He chose the lowly and despised things of the world, and the things that are not, to nullify the things that are,

14. 1:30

    It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.

15. 2:1

    When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.

16. 2:5

    so that your faith would not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power.

17. 2:7

    No, we speak of the mysterious and hidden wisdom of God, which He destined for our glory before time began.

18. 2:9

    Rather, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him.”

19. 2:10

    But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

20. 2:11

    For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

21. 2:12

    We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.

22. 2:14

    The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

23. 3:6

    I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.

24. 3:7

    So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.

25. 3:9

    For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.

26. 3:10

    By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one must be careful how he builds.

27. 3:16

    Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?

28. 3:17

    If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

29. 3:19

    For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”

30. 3:23

    and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.

31. 4:1

    So then, men ought to regard us as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

32. 4:5

    Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men’s hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God.

33. 4:8

    Already you have all you want. Already you have become rich. Without us, you have become kings. How I wish you really were kings, so that we might be kings with you!

34. 4:9

    For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.

35. 4:20

    For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power.

36. 5:13

    God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.”

37. 6:9

    Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,

38. 6:10

    nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

39. 6:11

    And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

40. 6:13

    “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

41. 6:14

    By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and He will raise us also.

42. 6:15

    Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!

43. 6:19

    Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;

44. 6:20

    you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

45. 7:7

    I wish that all men were as I am. But each man has his own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that.

46. 7:15

    But if the unbeliever leaves, let him go. The believing brother or sister is not bound in such cases. God has called you to live in peace.

47. 7:17

    Regardless, each one should lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him and to which God has called him. This is what I prescribe in all the churches.

48. 7:19

    Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commandments is what counts.

49. 7:22

    For he who was a slave when he was called by the Lord is the Lord’s freedman. Conversely, he who was a free man when he was called is Christ’s slave.

50. 7:24

    Brothers, each one should remain in the situation he was in when God called him.

51. 7:40

    In my judgment, however, she is happier if she remains as she is. And I think that I too have the Spirit of God.

52. 8:3

    But the one who loves God is known by God.

53. 8:4

    So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.

54. 8:6

    yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we exist.

55. 8:8

    But food does not bring us closer to God: We are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.

56. 9:9

    For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned?

57. 9:21

    To those without the law I became like one without the law (though I am not outside the law of God but am under the law of Christ), to win those without the law.

58. 10:5

    Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.

59. 10:13

    No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.

60. 10:20

    No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons.

61. 10:21

    You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too.

62. 10:26

    for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.”

63. 10:28

    But if someone tells you, “This food was offered to idols,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience—

64. 10:31

    So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.

65. 10:32

    Do not become a stumbling block, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God—

66. 11:3

    But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

67. 11:7

    A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.

68. 11:12

    For just as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. But everything comes from God.

69. 11:13

    Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?

70. 11:16

    If anyone is inclined to dispute this, we have no other practice, nor do the churches of God.

71. 11:20

    Now then, when you come together, it is not the Lord’s Supper you eat.

72. 11:22

    Don’t you have your own homes in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What can I say to you? Shall I praise you for this? No, I will not!

73. 11:26

    For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.

74. 11:29

    For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.

75. 12:3

    Therefore I inform you that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.

76. 12:6

    There are different ways of working, but the same God works all things in all people.

77. 12:18

    But in fact, God has arranged the members of the body, every one of them, according to His design.

78. 12:24

    whereas our presentable parts have no such need. But God has composed the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it,

79. 12:28

    And in the church God has appointed first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, and those with gifts of healing, helping, administration, and various tongues.

80. 14:2

    For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men, but to God. Indeed, no one understands him; he utters mysteries in the Spirit.

81. 14:18

    I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.

82. 14:25

    and the secrets of his heart will be made known. So he will fall facedown and worship God, proclaiming, “God is truly among you!”

83. 14:28

    But if there is no interpreter, he should remain silent in the church and speak only to himself and God.

84. 14:33

    For God is not a God of disorder, but of peace—as in all the churches of the saints.

85. 14:36

    Did the word of God originate with you? Or are you the only ones it has reached?

86. 15:9

    For I am the least of the apostles and am unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

87. 15:10

    But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

88. 15:15

    In that case, we are also exposed as false witnesses about God. For we have testified about God that He raised Christ from the dead, but He did not raise Him if in fact the dead are not raised.

89. 15:23

    But each in his own turn: Christ the firstfruits; then at His coming, those who belong to Him.

90. 15:24

    Then the end will come, when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father after He has destroyed all dominion, authority, and power.

91. 15:28

    And when all things have been subjected to Him, then the Son Himself will be made subject to Him who put all things under Him, so that God may be all in all.

92. 15:34

    Sober up as you ought, and stop sinning; for some of you are ignorant of God. I say this to your shame.

93. 15:38

    But God gives it a body as He has designed, and to each kind of seed He gives its own body.

94. 15:50

    Now I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

95. 15:57

    But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!