For that would mean that you would be compelled to go out of the world altogether. “I wrote to you in that letter that you were not to associate with fornicators (10) not that in this world you are to keep wholly aloof from such as they, any more than from people who are avaricious and greedy of gain, or from worshippers of idols. We know this because in 1 Corinthians 5:9 Paul says, We just do not have any record of the first letter. This letter of 1 Corinthians was actually Paul’s second letter and 2 Corinthians his third. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.” “For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy. 11:2 reveals his sense of responsibility regarding their spiritual development by saying, “If to other men I am not an Apostle, yet at any rate I am one to you for your very existence as a Christian Church is the seal of my Apostleship.”Īnd 2Cor. 11 So Paul remained in Corinth for a year and six months, teaching among them the Message of God.” 10 I am with you, and no one shall attack you to injure you for I have very many people in this city. 9 And, in a vision by night, the Lord said to Paul, ✽ismiss your fears: go on speaking, and do not give up. 8 And Crispus, the Warden of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, and so did all his household and from time to time many of the Corinthians who heard Paul believed and received baptism.
His house was next door to the synagogue. 7 So he left the place and went to the house of a person called Titius Justus, a worshipper of the true God. I am not responsible: in future I will go among the Gentiles. 6 But upon their opposing him with abusive language, he shook his clothes by way of protest, and said to them, »Your ruin will be upon your own heads. 5 Now at the time when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was preaching fervently and was solemnly telling the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.
4 But, Sabbath after Sabbath, he preached in the synagogue and tried to win over both Jews and Greeks. So Paul paid them a visit 3 and because he was of the same trade –that of tent-maker– he lodged with them and worked with them. He and his wife Priscilla had recently come from Italy because of Claudius’s edict expelling all the Jews from Rome. 2 Here he found a Jew, a native of Pontus, of the name of Aquila. “ 1 After this he left Athens and came to Corinth. He therefore had a very unique and special affection and responsibility to and for them.Īt his initial visit in Corinth Paul spent over a year and a half with them Acts 18:1-11, Paul was the apostle who first preached the gospel to the Corinthians. Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS
0 kommentar(er)
