1 Corinthians 1:1-23 BSB

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:19

‘For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the prudence of the prudent I will reject”.’ Paul now turns to Scripture to prove his point. The verse is cited from Isaiah 29:14 (LXX). There the professed people of God had turned away from God and His word and rejected the words of His true prophets, depending on their ‘wise’ leaders. Thus He warns them that what they look to as wisdom and prudence, the wisdom and prudence of their betters, the wisdom and prudence that has... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:20-21

‘Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has God not made foolish the wisdom of the world? For seeing that in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know God, it was God’s pleasure, through the foolishness of what was preached, to save those who believe.’ These words echo Isaiah 19:12 and Isaiah 33:18, but Paul does not say ‘it is written’ and he is not citing those passages as evidence of God’s ways’ (unlike in 1 Corinthians 1:19). He is... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:22-24

They Are Thus Rather To Look To God’s Wisdom (1:22-25). ‘Seeing that Jews ask for signs, and Greeks seek after wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumblingblock, and to Gentiles foolishness, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.’ The problem lay in the nature of man. ‘Jews ask for signs.’ The Jews were a practical people. They wanted to see the divine activity. They wanted ‘signs’ (John 2:18; John 6:30). They were... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:1-9

1 Corinthians 1-4. The Parties in the Corinthian Church. 1 Corinthians 1:1-1 Samuel : . The epistle is sent in the joint names of Paul and Sosthenes, who may have been the ruler of the synagogue mentioned in Acts 18:17, but the name was common. He seems to have had no share in the composition of the letter. The salutation sets before the readers the holiness of their vocation and the brotherhood of the saints, both of which their conduct repudiated. In the thanksgiving which follows, the... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:10-17

1 Corinthians 1:10-Esther : . The Party Spirit in the Church.— Apparently Paul had only just heard of the parties, they were, therefore, a new development and not of long standing. He deals with them first, not as the gravest abuse, but because they were uppermost in his mind. The passage raises problems of great difficulty which cannot be solved with any certainty. In Greek cities party spirit often ran high alike in politics and in sport. Probably this lay at the root of the parties in the... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:18-31

1 Corinthians 1:18 to 1 Corinthians 2:5 . The Cross, Folly to the World, is the Power and Wisdom of God.— Paul now explains and justifies 1 Corinthians 1:17 b, which to Greek readers must have sounded strange, almost a defiant paradox. The story of the Cross is folly to those who are in the way of ruin, but it attests itself in our experience to us, who are in the way of salvation, as the power of God. And this is in harmony with Scripture. For God’ s wise purpose ordained that the world’ s... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:1

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ: our common custom is to subscribe our name to the bottom of our letters; it seems by the apostolical Epistles, that their fashion was otherwise: he elsewhere telleth us, that it was his token in every epistle, which makes some doubt, whether that to the Hebrews was wrote by him; but others think it is there concealed, for the particular spite the Jews had to him. He had the name of Saul as well as Paul, as we read, Acts 7:58; Acts 9:1; whether he... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:2

Unto the church of God which is at Corinth; unto those in Corinth who having received the doctrine of the gospel, and owned Jesus Christ as their Saviour, were united in one ecclesiastical body for the worship of God, and communion one with another. Corinth was a famous city in Achaia, (which Achaia was joined to Greece by a neck of land betwixt the Aegean and Ionian Seas), it grew the most famous mart of all Greece. Paul came thither from Athens, Acts 18:1. Crispus, the chief ruler of the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:3

This is the common salutation in all Paul’s Epistles, only in one or two mercy is also added. Grace signifies free love. Peace signifies either a reconciliation with God, or brotherly love and unity each with other: See Poole on "Romans 1:7". The apostle wisheth them spiritual blessings, and the greatest spiritual blessings, grace and peace, and that not from and with men, but from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:4

Lest his former salutation should be misapprehended by them, as signifying that he thought they were without grace, he here cleareth his meaning by blessing God for that grace which they had received: but no man hath so much grace, but he is still capable of more, and stands in need of further influences; therefore, as he here blesseth God for the grace of God, which they by Jesus Christ received; so he before prayed for grace and peace for them, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus... read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:19

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:20-21

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:22-24

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:1-9

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:18-31

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:1

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:2

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:3

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:4

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