1 Corinthians 1:1-17

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:10-31

Christ Crucified For Us And The New Birth Through the Spirit Are the Two Central Foundations of Christianity (1:10-4:21). Paul begins this section by revealing his concern that the Corinthians are in danger of splitting up into different parties around the teaching of certain leading teachers (1 Corinthians 1:10-17), and concentrating on secondary aspects of that teaching, rather than being united around the one central truth of Christ crucified, the one fact which is central to the Christian... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:13

“Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptised into the name of Paul?” Paul now attacks their divisions at their root. There is only one Jesus Christ, and to Him, and to Him alone, should all look. It is not a question of either/or. The messenger is nothing. Christ is pre-eminent. He was the One Who was crucified for them. He was the One into Whose name they had been baptised. Let them then unite in Him and look only to Him, for from Him alone comes the grace and power to... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:14-17

‘I thank God that (or with some good MSS ‘I give thanks that’) I baptised none of you, except Crispus and Gaius, lest any man should say that you were baptised into my name. And I baptised also the household of Stephanas. Apart from these I do not know whether I baptised any other. For Christ did not send me to baptise, but to preach the Gospel, not in wisdom of word, lest the cross of Christ should be rendered void.’ For Crispus see Acts 18:8. For Stephanas 1 Corinthians 16:15; 1 Corinthians... 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

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

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 1:5

In every thing; in every grace and in every good gift, (for he is manifestly speaking of spiritual things), so as this general particle must not be extended to the things of this life, but restrained either to spiritual gifts, or spiritual, sanctifying habits. Thus we read of the riches of grace, Ephesians 1:7, and of the riches of Christ, Ephesians 3:8; nor is the metaphor improper, whether we consider riches as signifying plenty or abundance, or that which accommodateth a man in this life,... read more

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