The Strand Study Bible

Written From Ephesus During Paul’s Third Missionary Journey

I CORINTHIANS 4:1 - 5:7

1885

14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you. 15 For though ye have ten thousand instructers in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: 13 for in Christ Jesus I have begot- ten you through the gospel. 16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye fol- lowers of me. 17 For this cause have 14 I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church. 18 Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you. 19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power. 20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power. 21 What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness? I Corinthians 5 How to deal with immoral believers Date Written - Spring of AD 57 1 It is 15 reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornica- tion as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, 16 that one should have his father’s wife. Church discipline is required for certain sins 2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. 3 For I verily, 17 as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spir- it, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5 18 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the 19 DAY OF THE LORD JESUS . P 6 Your glorying is not good. 20 Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

1. Gr., “galley slave; one who serves as a rower on a ship” 2. or, “against myself” (Note - Paul had a clear conscience) 3. Fulfilled - Rev 19:11-21 (Christ’s Second Coming) 4. Mt 10:26 5. Mk 4:22 & I Cor 3:13 6. Acts 19:1 7. Job 32:21 & Gal 6:3 & I Pet 4:18 8. Jn 3:27 & 15:5 & I Cor 3:5-7 & II Cor 3:5 9. Phil 4:12 10. Acts 18:3 11. Mt 5:44 12. or, “pray” 13. Acts 18:8 14. Acts 19:22 15. I Jn 4:1 & Rev 2:2 & I Thess 5:21 & Acts 20:29-30 16. Lev 18:6-8 & 20:10-11 & Deut 22:30 & 27:20 Gen 35:22 & 49:4 & I Chro 5:1 17. Colo 2:5 18. that is, “to break fellowship with him thus releasing him to Satan’s domain” - I Tim 1: 18- 20 19. Fulfilled - Rev 4:1 (Rapture) (See - I Cor 1:8) 20. Mt 13:33 & Gal 5:9 21. or, “sin” 22. Exo 12:21 & Isa 53:7 & Jn 19:14 Rom 12:3 & I Cor 4:6 & II Cor 3:5 &

I Corinthians 4 Christian leaders are accountable to God Date Written - Spring of AD 57

1 Let a man so account of us, as of the 1 ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. 2 Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful. 3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man’s judg- ment: yea, I judge not mine own self. 4 For I know nothing 2 by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord. The promise of CHRIST’S Second Coming (Fulfilled - Rev 19:11-21) 5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the 3 LORD come, who both will bring to light the 4 hidden things of dark- ness, and will make 5 manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God. P 6 And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to 6 Apol- los for your sakes; 7 that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another. 7 For who maketh thee to differ from an- other? 8 and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it? 8 Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you. 9 For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men. 10 We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised. 11 Even unto this present hour we both 9 hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace; 12 10 And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, 11 we bless; being per- secuted, we suffer it: 13 Being defamed, we 12 intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.

7 Purge out therefore the old 21 leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleav- ened. For even Christ our 22 PASSOVER 4:1a This word ( stewards ) is the Greek word οLNοQοPοX9 ( oikonomous ), from which we derive our English word “economics”