Bible Commentaries

Romans 8:38-39 — 8:38-39: For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which

1 Corinthians 1:2 — 1:2: unto the church of God which is at Corinth, (even) them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called (to be) saints, with all that call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, their (Lord) and ours: Sometimes people ask preachers

1 Corinthians 10:1 — ÷1Co 9:26-27 9:26-27: I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so fight I, as not beating the air: 27 but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected. Here is

1 Corinthians 10:10 — 10:10: Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer. Now Paul provided the Corinthians with yet another of Israel’s mistakes (this is his fifth example from the nation of Israel). This blunder, just like the preceding

1 Corinthians 10:21 — 10:21: Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: ye cannot partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons. This passage has been called a “moral impossibility” and this is a good description of the verse.

1 Corinthians 11:16 — 11:16: But if any man seemeth to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God. The previous verses show why the veils were to be worn by the Corinthian women (they indicated women were fulfilling their divine role). Paul must

1 Corinthians 11:2 — 11:2b: and hold fast the traditions, even as I delivered them to you. At Corinth (and by implication elsewhere) Christians were to keep the “traditions” (paradosis) “delivered” to them by inspired men. Traditions is applied

1 Corinthians 11:29 — 11:29: For he that eateth and drinketh, eateth and drinketh judgment unto himself, if he discern not the body. The word “discern” (diakrino) occurs about 20 times in the New Testament. Jesus used this word to say people could discern the

1 Corinthians 11:31-32 — 11:31-32: But if we discerned ourselves, we should not be judged. 32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world. At the beginning of verse 31 Paul spoke of God’s people “judging”

1 Corinthians 12:4 — 12:4: Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. This section of the letter indicates the Corinthians were abusing some of their supernatural gifts. Tongue speakers (and perhaps others) turned their gift into a performance (compare 13:1-3).

1 Corinthians 13:4 — 13:4: Love suffereth long, (and) is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, As with most things in life, love may be described both positively and negatively and this is what Paul did. His first description of love is positive.

1 Corinthians 15:51-52 — 15:51-52: Behold, I tell you a mystery: We all shall not sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. Sometimes

1 Corinthians 15:58 — 15:58: Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not vain in the Lord. Since both the dead and the living will meet Jesus at the end of time (verses

1 Corinthians 16:2 — 16:2: Upon the first day of the week let each one of you lay by him in store, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come. As shown by the preceding information as well as the introductory commentary on 1 Corinthians 10:16 and the commentary

1 Corinthians 4:3-4 — 4:3-4: But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man’s judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self. 4 For I know nothing against myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord. In the previous

1 Corinthians 4:9-10 — 4:9-10: For, I think, God hath set forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, both to angels and men. 10 We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye

1 Corinthians 6:11 — 6:11: And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God. “Some” tells us at least a few of the Corinthians had been previously

1 Corinthians 6:18 — 6:18: Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. The word “flee” (pheugo) is a present tense verb (i.e. it describes habitual or on-going action-keep

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 — 6:9-10: Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards,

1 Corinthians 7:29-31 — 7:29-31: But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened, that henceforth both those that have wives may be as though they had none; 30 and those that weep, as though they wept not; and those that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and those that