1 Korintus 1:20

1:20 Where is the wise man? Where is the expert in the Mosaic law? ¹  Where is the debater of this age? Has God not made the wisdom of the world foolish?

1 Korintus 1:24

1:24 But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.

1 Korintus 1:26

1:26 Think about the circumstances of your call, ²  brothers and sisters. ³  Not many were wise by human standards, ⁴  not many were powerful, not many were born to a privileged position. ⁵ 

1 Korintus 3:4-5

3:4 For whenever someone says, “I am with Paul,” or “I am with Apollos,” are you not merely human? ⁶ 

3:5 What is Apollos, really? Or what is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, and each of us in the ministry the Lord gave us. ⁷ 

1 Korintus 3:22

3:22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. Everything belongs to you,

1 Korintus 4:3

4:3 So for me, it is a minor matter that I am judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.

1 Korintus 4:10

4:10 We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, we are dishonored!

1 Korintus 4:19

4:19 But I will come to you soon, if the Lord is willing, and I will find out not only the talk of these arrogant people, but also their power.

1 Korintus 5:7

5:7 Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch of dough – you are, in fact, without yeast. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

1 Korintus 6:1

Lawsuits

6:1 When any of you has a legal dispute with another, does he dare go to court before the unrighteous rather than before the saints?

1 Korintus 6:16

6:16 Or do you not know that anyone who is united with ⁸  a prostitute is one body with her? ⁹  For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.” ¹⁰ 

1 Korintus 7:7

7:7 I wish that everyone was as I am. But each has his own gift from God, one this way, another that.

1 Korintus 7:10

7:10 To the married I give this command – not I, but the Lord ¹¹  – a wife should not divorce a husband

1 Korintus 9:5

9:5 Do we not have the right to the company of a believing wife, like the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?

1 Korintus 9:13

9:13 Don’t you know that those who serve in the temple ¹²  eat food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar receive a part of the offerings?

1 Korintus 10:8

10:8 And let us not be immoral, as some of them were, and twenty-three thousand died in a single day. ¹³ 

1 Korintus 10:33

10:33 just as I also try to please everyone in all things. I do not seek my own benefit, but the benefit ¹⁴  of many, so that they may be saved.

1 Korintus 12:8

12:8 For one person is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, and another the message of knowledge according to the same Spirit,

1 Korintus 13:5

13:5 It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful.

1 Korintus 15:3

15:3 For I passed on to you as of first importance ¹⁵  what I also received – that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures,

1 Korintus 15:9

15:9 For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

[1:20]  ¹ tn Grk “the scribe.” The traditional rendering of γραμματεύς (grammateu") as “scribe” does not communicate much to the modern English reader, for whom the term might mean “professional copyist,” if it means anything at all. The people referred to here were recognized experts in the law of Moses and in traditional laws and regulations. Thus “expert in the Mosaic law” comes closer to the meaning for the modern reader.

[1:26]  ² tn Grk “Think about your calling.” “Calling” in Paul’s writings usually refers to God’s work of drawing people to faith in Christ. The following verses show that “calling” here stands by metonymy for their circumstances when they became Christians, leading to the translation “the circumstances of your call.”

[1:26]  ³ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:10.

[1:26]  ⁴ tn Grk “according to the flesh.”

[1:26]  ⁵ tn The Greek word ευγενής (eugenh") refers to the status of being born into nobility, wealth, or power with an emphasis on the privileges and benefits that come with that position.

[3:4]  ⁶ tn Grk “are you not men,” i.e., (fallen) humanity without the Spirit’s influence. Here Paul does not say “walking in accordance with” as in the previous verse; he actually states the Corinthians are this. However, this is almost certainly rhetorical hyperbole.

[3:5]  ⁷ tn Grk “and to each as the Lord gave.”

[6:16]  ⁸ tn Or “is in relationship with.”

[6:16]  ⁹ tn Grk “is one body,” implying the association “with her.”

[6:16]  ¹⁰ sn A quotation from Gen 2:24.

[7:10]  ¹¹ sn Not I, but the Lord. Here and in v. 12 Paul distinguishes between his own apostolic instruction and Jesus’ teaching during his earthly ministry. In vv. 10-11, Paul reports the Lord’s own teaching about divorce (cf. Mark 10:5-12).

[9:13]  ¹² tn Grk “working the sacred things.”

[10:8]  ¹³ sn This incident is recorded in Num 25:1-9.

[10:33]  ¹⁴ tn Although the Greek word translated “benefit” occurs only once in this verse, the Greek article occurs twice. This indicates an implied repetition of the term, which has been included twice in the translation for the sake of clarity and English style.

[15:3]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “among (the) first things.”