1 Korintus 1:5

1:5 For you were made rich ¹  in every way in him, in all your speech and in every kind of knowledge ²  –

1 Korintus 7:23

7:23 You were bought with a price. Do not become slaves of men.

1 Korintus 11:15

11:15 but if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is given to her for a covering. ³ 

1 Korintus 11:19

11:19 For there must in fact be divisions among you, so that those of you who are approved may be evident. ⁴ 

1 Korintus 11:33

11:33 So then, my brothers and sisters, ⁵  when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

1 Korintus 14:31

14:31 For you can all prophesy one after another, so all can learn and be encouraged.

[1:5]  ¹ sn Made rich refers to how God richly blessed the Corinthians with an abundance of spiritual gifts (cf. v. 7).

[1:5]  ² sn Speech and knowledge refer to the spiritual gifts God had blessed them with (as v. 7 confirms). Paul will discuss certain abuses of their gifts in chapters 12-14, but he thanks God for their giftedness.

[11:15]  ³ sn No word for veil or head covering occurs in vv. 3-14 (see the note on authority in v. 10). That the hair is regarded by Paul as a covering in v. 15 is not necessarily an argument that the hair is the same as the head covering that he is describing in the earlier verses (esp. v. 10). Throughout this unit of material, Paul points out the similarities of long hair with a head covering. But his doing so seems to suggest that the two are not to be identified with each other. Precisely because they are similar they do not appear to be identical (cf. vv. 5, 6, 7, 10, 13). If head covering = long hair, then what does v. 6 mean (“For if a woman will not cover her head, she should cut off her hair”)? This suggests that the covering is not the same as the hair itself.

[11:19]  ⁴ tn Grk “those approved may be evident among you.”

[11:33]  ⁵ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:10.