Paul's letters
1 Corinthians
Paul answers a divided, troubled church: divisions, lawsuits, marriage, worship, the Lord’s Supper, spiritual gifts, and the resurrection.
Paul wrote from Ephesus, after he heard of divisions in Corinth and received a letter from them (1 Corinthians 1:11; 7:1; 16:8). It contains the great chapters on love (13) and the resurrection (15).
Written at: Ephesus (1 Corinthians 16:8)
Kinds of writing
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Key verses
Faith, hope, and love. But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13 (World English Bible)
Christ died, was buried, and was raised. For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
1 Corinthians 15:3-4 (World English Bible)
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On the timeline
Eighteen months at Corinth; Gallio dismisses the chargesPaul writes 1 Corinthians from EphesusThe Last SupperJesus rises from the dead
1 Corinthians quotes or alludes to the Old Testament 17 times (counted in the site’s Old in the New).
Dating notes
Conventional chronology; Ussher runs a few years later. The span is an estimate; Scripture doesn’t say when the book was written.