Lesson 289

1 Corinthians 15:17  And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.  The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the primary proof of Christianity. If Jesus did not rise from the dead, he was not the person he claimed to be, and...

Lesson 288

1 Corinthians 11:17  In the following directives I have no praise for you, for your meetings do more harm than good.  This is part of a scathing rebuke for the state of corporate worship in Corinth. There were divisions among them, and some were getting...

Lesson 287

1 Corinthians 6:19  Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?nbsp; Some in the church did not think their bodies had much to do with their relationship with God. Therefore, it did not matter...

Lesson 286

1 Corinthians 2:14  The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. As Paul preached the gospel, he depended...

Lesson 285

1 Corinthians 1:1-2  Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God . . . To the church of God in Corinth.  Paul wrote to believers in Corinth around AD 55, while he was staying in Ephesus. Corinth was an important city in Greece that was...