Quotes about Corinthians

We all know that it's no good simply telling people to love one another. One more exhortation to love, to patience, to forgiveness, may remind us of our duty. But as long as we think of it as duty we aren't very likely to do it. The point of 1 Corinthians 13 is that love is not our duty; it is our destiny.

Crispus, the synagogue leader, and his whole household believed in the Lord. And many of the Corinthians who heard the message believed and were baptized.

So Paul stayed for a year and a half, teaching the word of God among the Corinthians.

I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius,

For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”

Therefore, as it is written: “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”

My message and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,

Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?

But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing, and then I will find out not only what these arrogant people are saying, but what power they have.

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,

Now about virgins, I have no command from the Lord, but I give a judgment as one who by the Lord’s mercy is trustworthy.