the epistle of first Corinthians Outline of 1

the epistle of first Corinthians

Outline of 1 Corinthians SECTION ONE: Dealing with reported problems (1: 1 — 6: 20) A. Unity based on God’s wisdom (1: 10— 4: 21) • Greeting, thanksgiving, and exhortation to unity (1: 1 -17) • God’s wisdom & power vs. human pride (1: 18 -31) • Paul’s Example – relying on God’s wisdom and power (2: 1 -16) • God’s foundation and building (3: 1 -23) • The quality of Paul’s apostleship (4: 1 -21) B. Dealing with sin in the church (5 -6) • Dealing with the immoral (5: 1 -13) • Dealing with those filing lawsuits (6: 1 -11) • Flee Sexual Immorality (6: 12 -20)

Outline of 1 Corinthians SECTION TWO: Dealing with questions and concerns of the Corinthians (7: 1 --16: 9) C. Their Concerns (7 -9) • • Marriage problems & issues for singles (7: 1 -16) Live as you are called (7: 17 -40) Things offered to idols (8: 1 -13) The rights and responsibilities of preachers (9: 1 -27) D. Common Concerns (10 -11) • • Old Testament warnings about temptation (10: 1 -13) Flee idolatry (10: 14 -33) Respecting headship when praying or prophesying (11: 1 -16) The Lord’s Supper (11: 17 -34)

Review Corinth was a diverse town of 400, 000+ people Prostitution and worldliness was rampant; temple of Aphrodite (Venus) The Greeks followed their philosophers, the Jews their rabbis; preacheritis 1: 12 -15 Paul was preaching unity based on God’s wisdom “charis (Greek)- grace; shalom (Hebrew)-peace” 1: 3

1 Corinthians 2 • vs. 1 - Paul did not win the audience with his speech • vs. 2 - Paul decided to know nothing among them except Jesus Christ and Him crucified • vs. 3 - Paul was with them in weakness, fear, and trembling • vs. 4 - Paul avoided enticing words of man’s wisdom • vs. 5 - Paul’s preaching put man’s faith in the power of God

1 Corinthians 2 • vs. 6 - Paul speaks wisdom to the spiritually mature • vs. 7 - the gospel is the wisdom of God, divine in origin • vs. 8 - the rulers of this world did not know the gospel; Pilate, Herod, Annas, Caiaphas • vs. 9 - what God prepared had not been seen, heard, or conceived by man • vs. 10 - no one could know God’s will without revelation; revealed to us by the Spirit

1 Corinthians 2 • vs. 11 - can we know the mind of a man, even so no one can know the mind of God • vs. 12 - we have received the spirit which is from God, therefore it is not of his world • vs. 13 - Paul did not speak in the wisdom of man’s teaching, but what the Holy Ghost taught • vs. 14 - the natural man considers the gospel foolish, he cannot know the things of God • vs. 15 - a spiritual man can judge all things using God’s word as his standard

1 Corinthians 2 • vs. 16 - who understands the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him