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Key Verses in 1 Corinthians
Important passages from 1 Corinthians, each shown in full in your chosen Bible version with its setting and meaning.
No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. A way of escape
Paul warns against falling into sin like Israel in the wilderness: no temptation is beyond the common human experience, and God provides a way out.
4Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, 5doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; 6doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. Love is patient, love is kind
Written to a divided church proud of its spiritual gifts. Paul describes the love that must shape all their relationships; it is often read at weddings.
3For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, Christ died, was buried and was raised
Paul passes on the message he received: Christ died for our sins, was buried and was raised on the third day, according to the Scriptures, and then appeared to many…
55“Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?” 56The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Death, where is your sting?
The end of Paul's chapter on the resurrection of the dead: through Jesus Christ, God gives victory over death.
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