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1 Corinthians Chapter One

 

1 Corinthians 1

I will now turn back to take up the thread of the contents of this epistle from the beginning. Paul was an apostle by the will of God. That was his authority however it might be with others. Moreover the same call that made those of Corinth Christians had made him an apostle. He addresses the assembly of God at Corinth adding a character (the application of which is evident when we consider the contents of the epistle)-"sanctified in Christ Jesus." Afterwards the universality of the application of the doctrine and instructions of the epistle and of its authority over all Christians wherever they might be is brought forward in this address. Happily whatever sorrow he felt at the state of the Corinthians the apostle could fall back upon the grace of God and thus recognise all the grace which He had bestowed on them. But the placing them thus in relationship to God brought all the effects of His holiness to bear upon their consciences while giving the apostle's heart the encouragement of the perfect grace of God towards them. And this grace itself became a powerful lever for the word in the hearts of the Corinthians. In the presence of such grace they ought to be ashamed of sin. Nor can there be a more remarkable testimony than is here found of reckoning on the faithfulness of God towards His people. The relationship does claim holiness: in holiness alone it is enjoyed; but it reposes on the faithfulness of God. The Corinthians were walking as we know badly. The apostle lets none of the evil pass; but still he declares that God was faithful and would confirm them to the end that they might be-not safe but-blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ and then proceeds to blame them. what a wonderful testimony!

Paul (the Spirit Himself) thus linked the Corinthians with God; and that which He was in this connection with them had all its force upon their hearts and consciences. At the same time the use of this weapon opened their heart to all that the apostle had to say. One must be very near the Lord to be able in practice thus to look at Christians who are walking badly. It is not to spare their sins-the apostle is very far from doing that; but it is grace which brings their own consciences to be occupied with it as having a relationship with God that was too precious to allow them to continue in sin or to permit it.

The Epistle to the Galatians supplies us with a remarkable instance of the confidence thus inspired; compare chapters 4:20; 5:10.

The Corinthians were enriched by God with His gifts and His testimony was thus confirmed among them so that they came behind in no gift waiting for the revelation of the Lord the fulfilment of all things. Solemn day! for which God who had called them confirmed them in His faithfulness that they might be without reproach in that day called as they were to the fellowship and communion of His Son Jesus Christ. Short but precious exposition of the grace and faithfulness of God serving as a basis (if their condition did not allow the apostle to develop it as he did to the Ephesians) to all the exhortations and instructions which he addressed to the Corinthians in order to strengthen them and direct their wavering steps.

The apostle first takes up the folly of the Corinthians in making the chief christian ministers and Christ Himself heads of schools. Christ was not divided. They had not been baptised unto the name of Paul. He had indeed on occasion baptised a few; but his mission was to preach not to baptise. [1] It was in virtue of and according to Acts 26:17 and 13:2 to 4 and not Matthew 28:19. Moreover all this human wisdom was but foolishness which God brought to nothing: the preaching of the cross was the power of God; and God had chosen the weak things the things of nought foolish things according to the world to annihilate the wisdom and strength of the world in order that the gospel should be evidently the power of God. The Jews asked for a sign the Greeks sought for wisdom; but God caused Christ crucified to be preached a scandal to the Jews foolishness to the Greeks but to them which are called the power of God. By things that are not He brought to nought things that are because His weakness is stronger than the strength of the world; His foolishness wiser than the wisdom of the age. The flesh shall not glory in His presence. God dealt with conscience though in grace according to the true position of responsible man and did not subject Himself to the judgment and reasonings of man's mind wholly incompetent thereto and which put him out of his place as if he could judge of God. But besides this the Christian was more even than the object of God's instruction; he was himself of God in Christ Jesus; of God he had his life his being his position as a Christian. And Christ was unto him from God wisdom righteousness sanctification and redemption-all in contrast with the pretensions of the human mind with the false righteousness of the Jew under the law with the means and the measure of the sanctification it supplied and with the weakness of man the last trace of which God will remove in the deliverance He will accomplish by His power in Christ when He shall complete the work of His grace. Thus we are of God and Christ is everything for us on God's part in order that he who glories may glory in the Lord: a brief but mighty testimony to what Christianity is in its elements.

Footnotes

[1] This statement is the more remarkable as he had a special revelation as to the Lord's supper. But that ordinance has reference to the unity of the body which was specially the testimony of the apostle. The twelve were sent to baptise the nations (Matt. 28).

── John DarbySynopsis of 1 Corinthians

 

1 Corinthians 1

Chapter Contents

A salutation and thanksgiving. (1-9) Exhortation to brotherly love and reproof for divisions. (10-16) The doctrine of a crucified Saviour as advancing the glory of God (17-25) and humbling the creature before him. (26-31)

Commentary on 1 Corinthians 1:1-9

(Read 1 Corinthians 1:1-9)

All Christians are by baptism dedicated and devoted to Christ and are under strict obligations to be holy. But in the true church of God are all who are sanctified in Christ Jesus called to be saints and who call upon him as God manifest in the flesh for all the blessings of salvation; who acknowledge and obey him as their Lord and as Lord of all; it includes no other persons. Christians are distinguished from the profane and atheists that they dare not live without prayer; and they are distinguished from Jews and pagans that they call on the name of Christ. Observe how often in these verses the apostle repeats the words Our Lord Jesus Christ. He feared not to make too frequent or too honourable mention of him. To all who called upon Christ the apostle gave his usual salutation desiring in their behalf the pardoning mercy sanctifying grace and comforting peace of God through Jesus Christ. Sinners can have no peace with God nor any from him but through Christ. He gives thanks for their conversion to the faith of Christ; that grace was given them by Jesus Christ. They had been enriched by him with all spiritual gifts. He speaks of utterance and knowledge. And where God has given these two gifts he has given great power for usefulness. These were gifts of the Holy Ghost by which God bore witness to the apostles. Those that wait for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ will be kept by him to the end; and those that are so will be blameless in the day of Christ made so by rich and free grace. How glorious are the hopes of such a privilege; to be kept by the power of Christ from the power of our corruptions and Satan's temptations!

Commentary on 1 Corinthians 1:10-16

(Read 1 Corinthians 1:10-16)

In the great things of religion be of one mind; and where there is not unity of sentiment still let there be union of affection. Agreement in the greater things should extinguish divisions about the lesser. There will be perfect union in heaven and the nearer we approach it on earth the nearer we come to perfection. Paul and Apollos both were faithful ministers of Jesus Christ and helpers of their faith and joy; but those disposed to be contentious broke into parties. So liable are the best things to be corrupted and the gospel and its institutions made engines of discord and contention. Satan has always endeavoured to stir up strife among Christians as one of his chief devices against the gospel. The apostle left it to other ministers to baptize while he preached the gospel as a more useful work.

Commentary on 1 Corinthians 1:17-25

(Read 1 Corinthians 1:17-25)

Paul had been bred up in Jewish learning; but the plain preaching of a crucified Jesus was more powerful than all the oratory and philosophy of the heathen world. This is the sum and substance of the gospel. Christ crucified is the foundation of all our hopes the fountain of all our joys. And by his death we live. The preaching of salvation for lost sinners by the sufferings and death of the Son of God if explained and faithfully applied appears foolishness to those in the way to destruction. The sensual the covetous the proud and ambitious alike see that the gospel opposes their favourite pursuits. But those who receive the gospel and are enlightened by the Spirit of God see more of God's wisdom and power in the doctrine of Christ crucified than in all his other works. God left a great part of the world to follow the dictates of man's boasted reason and the event has shown that human wisdom is folly and is unable to find or retain the knowledge of God as the Creator. It pleased him by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. By the foolishness of preaching; not by what could justly be called foolish preaching. But the thing preached was foolishness to wordly-wise men. The gospel ever was and ever will be foolishness to all in the road to destruction. The message of Christ plainly delivered ever has been a sure touchstone by which men may learn what road they are travelling. But the despised doctrine of salvation by faith in a crucified Saviour God in human nature purchasing the church with his own blood to save multitudes even all that believe from ignorance delusion and vice has been blessed in every age. And the weakest instruments God uses are stronger in their effects than the strongest men can use. Not that there is foolishness or weakness in God but what men consider as such overcomes all their admired wisdom and strength.

Commentary on 1 Corinthians 1:26-31

(Read 1 Corinthians 1:26-31)

God did not choose philosophers nor orators nor statesmen nor men of wealth and power and interest in the world to publish the gospel of grace and peace. He best judges what men and what measures serve the purposes of his glory. Though not many noble are usually called by Divine grace there have been some such in every age who have not been ashamed of the gospel of Christ; and persons of every rank stand in need of pardoning grace. Often a humble Christian though poor as to this world has more true knowledge of the gospel than those who have made the letter of Scripture the study of their lives but who have studied it rather as the witness of men than as the word of God. And even young children have gained such knowledge of Divine truth as to silence infidels. The reason is they are taught of God; the design is that no flesh should glory in his presence. That distinction in which alone they might glory was not of themselves. It was by the sovereign choice and regenerating grace of God that they were in Jesus Christ by faith. He is made of God to us wisdom righteousness sanctification and redemption; all we need or can desire. And he is made wisdom to us that by his word and Spirit and from his fulness and treasures of wisdom and knowledge we may receive all that will make us wise unto salvation and fit for every service to which we are called. We are guilty liable to just punishment; and he is made righteousness our great atonement and sacrifice. We are depraved and corrupt and he is made sanctification that he may in the end be made complete redemption; may free the soul from the being of sin and loose the body from the bonds of the grave. And this is that all flesh according to the prophecy by Jeremiah Jeremiah 9:23-24 may glory in the special favour all-sufficient grace and precious salvation of Jehovah.

── Matthew HenryConcise Commentary on 1 Corinthians

 

1 Corinthians 1

Verse 1

[1] Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God and Sosthenes our brother

Paul called to be an apostle — There is great propriety in every clause of the salutation particularly in this as there were some in the church of Corinth who called the authority of his mission in question.

Through the will of God — Called "the commandment of God " 1 Timothy 1:1 This was to the churches the ground of his authority; to Paul himself of an humble and ready mind. By the mention of God the authority of man is excluded Galatians 1:1; by the mention of the will of God the merit of Paul 1 Corinthians 15:8 etc.

And Sosthenes — A Corinthian St. Paul's companion in travel. It was both humility and prudence in the apostle thus to join his name with his own in an epistle wherein he was to reprove so many irregularities.

Sosthenes the brother — Probably this word is emphatical; as if he had said Who from a Jewish opposer of the gospel became a faithful brother.

Verse 2

[2] Unto the church of God which is at Corinth to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus called to be saints with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord both theirs and ours:

To the church of God which is in Corinth — St. Paul writing in a familiar manner to the Corinthians as also to the Thessalonians and Galatians uses this plain appellation. To the other churches he uses a more solemn address.

Sanctified through Jesus Christ — And so undoubtedly they were in general notwithstanding some exceptions.

Called — Of Jesus Christ Romans 1:6 And - As the fruit of that calling made holy.

With all that in every place — Nothing could better suit that catholic love which St. Paul labours to promote in this epistle than such a declaration of his good wishes for every true Christian upon earth.

Call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ — This plainly implies that all Christians pray to Christ as well as to the Father through him.

Verse 4

[4] I thank my God always on your behalf for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;

Always — Whenever I mention you to God in prayer.

Verse 5

[5] That in every thing ye are enriched by him in all utterance and in all knowledge;

In all utterance and knowledge — Of divine things. These gifts the Corinthians particularly admired. Therefore this congratulation naturally tended to soften their spirits and I make way for the reproofs which follow.

Verse 6

[6] Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:

The testimony of Christ — The gospel.

Was confirmed among you — By these gifts attending it. They knew they had received these by the hand of Paul: and this consideration was highly proper to revive in them their former reverence and affection for their spiritual father.

Verse 7

[7] So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:

Waiting — With earnest desire. For the glorious revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ - A sure mark of a true or false Christian to long for or dread this revelation.

Verse 8

[8] Who shall also confirm you unto the end that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Who will also — if you faithfully apply to him.

Confirm you to the end. In the day of Christ — Now it is our day wherein we are to work out our salvation; then it will be eminently the day of Christ and of his glory in the saints.

Verse 9

[9] God is faithful by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

God is faithful — To all his promises; and therefore "to him that hath shall be given." By whom ye are called - A pledge of his willingness to save you unto the uttermost.

Verse 10

[10] Now I beseech you brethren by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that ye all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

Now I exhort you — Ye have faith and hope; secure love also.

By the endearing name of our Lord Jesus Christ — lnfinitely preferable to all the human names in which ye glory.

That ye all speak the same thing — They now spoke different things 1 Corinthians 1:12 And that there be no schisms among you - No alienation of affection from each other. Is this word ever taken in any other sense in scripture? But that ye be joined in the same mind - Affections desires.

And judgment — Touching all the grand truths of the gospel.

Verse 11

[11] For it hath been declared unto me of you my brethren by them which are of the house of Chloe that there are contentions among you.

It hath been declared to me by them of the family of Chloe — Whom some suppose to have been the wife of Stephanas and the mother of Fortunatus and Achaicus. By these three the Corinthians had sent their letter to St. Paul 1 Corinthians 16:17.

That there are contentions — A word equivalent with schisms in the preceding verse.

Verse 12

[12] Now this I say that every one of you saith I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

Now this I say — That is what I mean is this: there are various parties among you who set themselves one against an other in behalf of the several teachers they admire.

And I of Christ — They spoke well if they had not on this pretence despised their teachers 1 Corinthians 4:8 Perhaps they valued themselves on having heard Christ preach in his own person.

Verse 13

[13] Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?

Is Christ divided — Are not all the members still under one head? Was not he alone crucified for you all; and were ye not all baptized in his name? The glory of Christ then is not to be divided between him and his servants; neither is the unity of the body to be torn asunder seeing Christ is one still.

Verse 14

[14] I thank God that I baptized none of you but Crispus and Gaius;

I thank God — (A pious phrase for the common one "I rejoice ") that in the course of his providence I baptized none of you but Crispus once the ruler of the synagogue and Caius.

Verse 15

[15] Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name.

Lest any should say that I had baptized in my own name — In order to attach them to myself.

Verse 16

[16] And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides I know not whether I baptized any other.

I know not — That is it does not at present occur to my memory that I baptized any other.

Verse 17

[17] For Christ sent me not to baptize but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.

For God did not send me to baptize — That was not my chief errand: those of inferior rank and abilities could do it: though all the apostles were sent to baptize also Matthew 28:19 But to preach the gospel - So the apostle slides into his general proposition: but not with wisdom of speech - With the artificial ornaments of discourse invented by human wisdom.

Lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect — The whole effect of St. Paul's preaching was owing to the power of God accompanying the plain declaration of that great truth "Christ bore our sins upon the cross." But this effect might have been imputed to another cause had he come with that wisdom of speech which they admired.

Verse 18

[18] For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

To them that perish — By obstinately rejecting the only name whereby they can be saved.

But to us who are saved — Now saved from our sins and in the way to everlasting salvation it is the great instrument of the power of God.

Verse 19

[19] For it is written I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

For it is written — And the words are remarkably applicable to this great event. Isaiah 29:14

Verse 20

[20] Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

Where is the wise? etc.-The deliverance of Judea from Sennacherib is what Isaiah refers to in these words; in a bold and beautiful allusion to which the apostle in the clause that follows triumphs over all the opposition of human wisdom to the victorious gospel of Christ. What could the wise men of the gentiles do against this? or the Jewish scribes? or the disputers of this world? - Those among both who proud of their acuteness were fond of controversy and thought they could confute all opponents.

Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world — That is shown it to be very foolishness. Isaiah 33:18

Verse 21

[21] For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

For since in the wisdom of God — According to his wise disposals leaving them to make the trial.

The world — Whether Jewish or gentile by all its boasted wisdom knew not God - Though the whole creation declared its Creator and though he declared himself by all the prophets; it pleased God by a way which those who perish count mere foolishness to save them that believe.

Verse 22

[22] For the Jews require a sign and the Greeks seek after wisdom:

For whereas the Jews demand of the apostles as they did of their Lord more signs still after all they have seen already; and the Greeks or gentiles seek wisdom - The depths of philosophy and the charms of eloquence.

Verse 23

[23] But we preach Christ crucified unto the Jews a stumblingblock and unto the Greeks foolishness;

We go on to preach in a plain and historical not rhetorical or philosophical manner Christ crucified to the Jews a stumblingblock - Just opposite to the "signs" they demand.

And to the Greeks foolishness — A silly tale just opposite to the wisdom they seek.

Verse 24

[24] But unto them which are called both Jews and Greeks Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

But to them that are called — And obey the heavenly calling.

Christ — With his cross his death his life his kingdom. And they experience first that he is the power then that he is the wisdom of God.

Verse 25

[25] Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

Because the foolishness of God — The gospel scheme which the world judge to be mere foolishness is wiser than the wisdom of men; and weak as they account it stronger than all the strength of men.

Verse 26

[26] For ye see your calling brethren how that not many wise men after the flesh not many mighty not many noble are called:

Behold your calling — What manner of men they are whom God calls.

That not many wise men after the flesh — In the account of the world.

Not many mighty — Men of power and authority.

Verse 28

[28] And base things of the world and things which are despised hath God chosen yea and things which are not to bring to nought things that are:

Things that are not — The Jews frequently called the gentiles "Them that are not " 2 Esdras vi. 56 57. In so supreme contempt did they hold them.

The things that are — In high esteem.

Verse 29

[29] That no flesh should glory in his presence.

That no flesh — A fit appellation. Flesh is fair but withering as grass.

May glory before God — In God we ought to glory.

Verse 30

[30] But of him are ye in Christ Jesus who of God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption:

Of him — Out of his free grace and mercy. Are ye Engrafted into Christ Jesus who is made unto us that believe wisdom who were before utterly foolish and ignorant.

Righteousness — The sole ground of our justification who were before under the wrath and curse of God.

Sanctification — A principle of universal holiness whereas before we were altogether dead in sin.

And redemption — That is complete deliverance from all evil and eternal bliss both of soul and body.

Verse 31

[31] That according as it is written He that glorieth let him glory in the Lord.

Let him glory in the Lord — Not in himself not in the flesh not in the world. Jeremiah 9:23 24

── John WesleyExplanatory Notes on 1 Corinthians

 

1 Cor. 1:23

The story is told of a small English village that had a tiny chapel whose stone walls were covered by traditional ivy. Over an arch was originally inscribed the words: We preach Christ crucified. There had been a generation of godly men who did precisely that: they preached Christ crucified.

But times changed. The ivy grew and pretty soon covered the last word. The inscription now read: We Preach Christ. Other men came and they did preach Christ: Christ the example Christ the humanitarian Christ the ideal teacher.

As the years passed the ivy continued to grow until finally the inscription read: We preach. The generation that came along then did just that: they preached economics social gospel book reviews just about anything.

The story probably isn’t literally true but it does illustrate how man’s philosophical detours affect how the gospel is transmitted.

 

Chapter 1. Divisions

Those Who Are Perishing
Those Who Are Saved

I. Relation Between God and Believers

  1. Three Kinds of Calling
  2. Without Lacking Any Spiritual Gift
  3. God Is Faithful

II. The Way of Church Unity

  1. Agree with One Another
  2. Do Not Quarrel
  3. Do Not Divide

III. The Message of the Cross

  1. Two Kinds of Persons
  2. Two Kinds of Wisdom
  3. Two Kinds of Wild Asking
── Chih-Hsin ChangAn Outline of The New Testament
 
Chapter One General Review
                             
OBJECTIVES IN STUDYING THIS CHAPTER
 
1) To understand how division is unacceptable is the Body of Christ
 
2) To see why our boasting should be only in the Lord
 
SUMMARY
 
In his opening remarks Paul expresses gratitude that the Corinthians 
had been enriched by God
came behind in no gift
and were eagerly 
waiting for the revelation of the Lord (1-9).  He immediately begins 
dealing with the first problem
that of division which manifested 
itself in what we might call "preacheritis" (10-17).  Discerning that 
the underlying cause concerns the exaltation of human wisdom
Paul 
demonstrates the folly of boasting in such (18-31).
 
OUTLINE
 
I. INTRODUCTION (1-9)
 
   A. GREETINGS FROM PAUL AND SOSTHENES (1-3)
      1. To the church at Corinth
and those who in every place call on
         the name of Jesus (2)
      2. Grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus (3)
 
   B. THANKSGIVING FOR GOD'S GRACE TOWARDS THEM (4-9)
      1. Enriching them in all knowledge
even as Christ's testimony 
         was confirmed in them (5-6)
      2. Coming short in no gift as they eagerly await the revelation 
         of the Lord Jesus Christ (7)
      3. Who will confirm them so they may be blameless (8)
      4. For God is faithful
who called them into the fellowship of
         His Son (9)
 
II. THE NATURE OF THE DIVISION AT CORINTH (10-17)
 
   A. AS REPORTED TO PAUL (10-12)
      1. His plea for unity (10)
      2. For those of Chloe's household have reported contentions among
         them (11)
      3. Evidently involving "preacheritis" (12)
 
   B. PAUL'S INITIAL REACTION (13-17)
      1. Rhetorical questions to illustrate the absurdity of what we
         would call "preacheritis" (13)
      2. Gratitude that he personally baptized few of them (14-17)
         a. Lest any should accuse him of baptizing in his own name
            (14-15)
         b. Administering baptism was not his chief calling anyway
            (16-17)
 
III. THE FOLLY OF BOASTING IN HUMAN WISDOM (18-31)
 
   A. GOD WILL DESTROY THE WISDOM OF THE WISE (18-25)
      1. Granted
the message of the cross is foolish to some
but not
         to the saved (18)
      2. But God will the destroy the wisdom of the world (19-20)
      3. God chose to use His foolishness and His weakness to save
         those who believe (21-25)
         a. Because the world through its wisdom knew not God (21a)
         b. So God chose to save mankind through a "foolish" message
            about Christ crucified (21b-24)
         c. But even God's "foolishness" and "weakness" is wiser and
            stronger than men (25)
 
   B. THE CORINTHIANS' OWN CALLING DEMONSTRATES THIS TRUTH (26-29)
      1. Not many of them were "wise
mighty
or noble" (26)
      2. But God has chosen those things that are "foolish
weak
base
         despised
and which are not"
so that no flesh should glory in
         His presence (27-29)
 
   C. INSTEAD
BOAST IN THE LORD (30-31)
      1. He provides for us the true wisdom
plus righteousness and
         sanctification and redemption (30)
      2. We should glory only in Him (31)
 
REVIEW QUESTIONS FOR THE CHAPTER
 
1) List the main points of this chapter
   - Introduction (1-9)
   - The Nature Of The Division At Corinth (10-17)
   - The Folly Of Boasting In Human Wisdom (18-31)
 
2) Who joined with Paul in addressing this letter to the Corinthians?
   (1)
   - Sosthenes
 
3) What was one thing the church did not lack in Corinth? (7)
   - Spiritual gifts
 
4) What is the first problem Paul deals with in this epistle? (10)
   - Division
 
5) Who reported this problem to him? (11)
   - The household of Chloe
 
6) How was their divisiveness expressed? (12)
   - Calling themselves after men
 
7) Who had Paul personally baptized at Corinth? (14
16)
   - Crispus
Gaius
the household of Stephanus
 
8) Why was Paul thankful that he had not baptized any other? (15)
   - Lest they should say he baptized in his own name
 
9) In what two ways do men view the preaching of the cross? (18)
   - Foolishness to those who are perishing
   - The power of God to those being saved
 
10) How did the preaching of Christ crucified appear to the Jews and 
    the Greeks? (23)
   - A stumbling block to the Jews
   - Foolishness to the Greeks
 
11) How has God chosen to confound the wise of this world? (27-28)
   - By using that which in their sight is foolish
weak
base
     despised
 
12) Upon what grounds may we boast? (31)
   - Only in the Lord

--《Executable Outlines

 

Divisions

Those Who Are Perishing

Those Who Are Saved

 

I.  Relation Between God and Believers

1.    Three Kinds of Calling

2.    Without Lacking Any Spiritual Gift

3.    God Is Faithful

II.The Way of Church Unity

1.    Agree with One Another

2.    Do Not Quarrel

3.    Do Not Divide

III.       The Message of the Cross

1.    Two Kinds of Persons

2.    Two Kinds of Wisdom

3.    Two Kinds of Wild Asking

-- Chih-Hsin ChangAn Outline of The New Testament