Thematic Bible: Corinth


Thematic Bible



I am glad that Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus have arrived, for they have made up for your absence. They refresh my spirit as they do your own. You should appreciate men like that.


For Chloe's people inform me that you are quarrelling.





This will be my third visit to you: every case is to be decided on the evidence of two or of three witnesses.

I mean to visit you after my tour in Macedonia, for I am going to make a tour through Macedonia. The chances are, I shall spend some time with you, possibly even pass the winter with you, so that you may speed me forward on any journey that lies before me. I do not care about seeing you at this moment merely in the by-going; my hope is to stay among you for some time, with the Lord's permission.


PAUL an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and brother Timotheus, to the church of God at Corinth as well as to all the saints throughout the whole of Achaia:


I Paul write this salutation with my own hand. 'If any one has no love for the Lord, God's curse be on him! Maran atha! The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you. read more.
My love be with you all in Christ Jesus.' [Amen.]

You don't have to read between the lines of my letters; you can understand them. Yes, I trust you will understand the full meaning of my letters


Thanks be to God who has inspired Titus with an interest in you equal to my own; he has indeed responded to my request, but he is off to you by his own choice, so keen is his interest in you.

I asked Titus to go, and with him I sent our brother. Titus did not make anything out of you, did he? And did not I act in the same spirit as he did? Did I not take the very same steps?


Gaius, my host and the host of the church at large salutes you. Erastus the city-treasurer salutes you; so does brother Quartus.

Erastus stayed on at Corinth: I left Trophimus ill at Miletus.


Now if we preach that Christ rose from the dead, how can certain individuals among you assert that 'there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead'?


What! have you no houses to eat and drink in? Do you think you can show disrespect to the church of God and put the poor to shame? What can I say to you? Commend you? Not for this.


By 'quarrelling' I mean that each of you has his party-cry, "I belong to Paul," "And I to Apollos," "And I to Cephas," "And I to Christ."

When one cries, "I belong to Paul," and another, "I belong to Apollos," what are you but men of the world?



I intended to take you on my way to Macedonia, and to visit you again on my way back from Macedonia, so as to be sped by you on my journey to Judaea.




It was when Apollos was in Corinth that Paul, after passing through the inland districts, came down to Ephesus. There he found some disciples,





But Crispus the president of the synagogue believed in the Lord, as did all his household, and many of the Corinthians listened, believed, and were baptized.

I am thankful now that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius,


I am glad that Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus have arrived, for they have made up for your absence.


Then he removed to the house of a devout proselyte called Titus Justus, which adjoined the synagogue.


After this Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. There he came across a Jew called Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently arrived from Italy with his wife Priscilla, as Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul accosted them, and as he belonged to the same trade he stayed with them and they all worked together. (They were workers in leather by trade.)


Gaius, my host and the host of the church at large salutes you. Erastus the city-treasurer salutes you; so does brother Quartus.


I ask this favour of you, my brothers. The household of Stephanas, you know, was the first to be reaped in Achaia, and they have laid themselves out to serve the saints.

(Well, I did baptize the household of Stephanas, but no one else, as far as I remember.)

I am glad that Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus have arrived, for they have made up for your absence.