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1 Corinthians

New Testament · translated from the Greek

Paul writes to a divided assembly with many problems: factions, immorality, lawsuits, marriage, worship and the gifts. At the center is love as “a still more excellent way” (12:31–13:13), and at the end, the resurrection of the dead (15).

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5
  6. 6
  7. 7
  8. 8
  9. 9
  10. 10
  11. 11
  12. 12
  13. 13
  14. 14
  15. 15
  16. 16

How it is laid out

  1. Divisions in the assemblychapters 1–4
  2. Problems of conductchapters 5–7
  3. Freedom and worshipchapters 8–11
  4. The gifts and lovechapters 12–14
  5. The resurrectionchapters 15–16

Key verses

Who wrote it

Paul, with Sosthenes the brother (1:1).

When it was written

Around AD 54–55, from Ephesus (16:8).

For whom, and in what situation

The assembly in Corinth, a great Greek trading city, which Paul had founded. He answers reports of divisions (1:11) and questions they had written to him (7:1): conduct, marriage, food sacrificed to idols, worship, gifts and the resurrection.

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