1 Korintus 1:20

1:20 Where is the wise man? Where is the expert in the Mosaic law? ¹  Where is the debater of this age? Has God not made the wisdom of the world foolish?

1 Korintus 1:24-25

1:24 But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. 1:25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, ²  and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength. ³ 

1 Korintus 1:27

1:27 But God chose what the world thinks foolish to shame the wise, and God chose what the world thinks weak to shame the strong.

1 Korintus 2:6

Wisdom from God

2:6 Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, ⁴  but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing.

1 Korintus 2:16

2:16 For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to advise him? ⁵  But we have the mind of Christ.

1 Korintus 3:4

3:4 For whenever someone says, “I am with Paul,” or “I am with Apollos,” are you not merely human? ⁶ 

1 Korintus 3:19

3:19 For the wisdom of this age is foolishness with God. As it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness.” ⁷ 

1 Korintus 4:3

4:3 So for me, it is a minor matter that I am judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.

1 Korintus 4:15

4:15 For though you may have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, because I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

1 Korintus 5:1

Church Discipline

5:1 It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, the kind of immorality that is not permitted even among the Gentiles, so that someone is cohabiting with ⁸  his father’s wife.

1 Korintus 7:7

7:7 I wish that everyone was as I am. But each has his own gift from God, one this way, another that.

1 Korintus 7:22

7:22 For the one who was called in the Lord as a slave is the Lord’s freedman. In the same way, the one who was called as a free person is Christ’s slave.

1 Korintus 8:13

8:13 For this reason, if food causes my brother or sister to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause one of them ⁹  to sin.

1 Korintus 9:11

9:11 If we sowed spiritual blessings among you, is it too much to reap material things from you?

1 Korintus 9:18

9:18 What then is my reward? That when I preach the gospel I may offer the gospel free of charge, and so not make full use of my rights in the gospel.

1 Korintus 10:33

10:33 just as I also try to please everyone in all things. I do not seek my own benefit, but the benefit ¹⁰  of many, so that they may be saved.

1 Korintus 13:5

13:5 It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful.

1 Korintus 14:20

14:20 Brothers and sisters, ¹¹  do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

1 Korintus 15:3

15:3 For I passed on to you as of first importance ¹²  what I also received – that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures,

[1:20]  ¹ tn Grk “the scribe.” The traditional rendering of γραμματεύς (grammateu") as “scribe” does not communicate much to the modern English reader, for whom the term might mean “professional copyist,” if it means anything at all. The people referred to here were recognized experts in the law of Moses and in traditional laws and regulations. Thus “expert in the Mosaic law” comes closer to the meaning for the modern reader.

[1:25]  ² tn Grk “than men.”

[1:25]  ³ tn Grk “than men.”

[2:6]  ⁴ tn In extrabiblical literature this word was applied to an initiate of a mystery religion (BDAG 995 s.v. τέλειος 3, gives numerous examples and states this was a technical term of the mystery religions). It could here refer to those who believed Paul’s message, the mystery of God (v. 1), and so be translated as “those who believe God’s message.”

[2:16]  ⁵ sn A quotation from Isa 40:13.

[3:4]  ⁶ tn Grk “are you not men,” i.e., (fallen) humanity without the Spirit’s influence. Here Paul does not say “walking in accordance with” as in the previous verse; he actually states the Corinthians are this. However, this is almost certainly rhetorical hyperbole.

[3:19]  ⁷ sn A quotation from Job 5:13.

[5:1]  ⁸ tn Or “someone has married”; Grk “someone has,” but the verb ἔχω (ecw) is routinely used of marital relationships (cf. BDAG 420 s.v. 2.a), including sexual relationships. The exact nature of the relationship is uncertain in this case; it is not clear, for example, whether the man had actually married the woman or was merely cohabiting with her.

[8:13]  ⁹ tn Grk “my brother.” Both “my brother or sister” earlier in the verse and “one of them” here translate the same Greek phrase. Since the same expression occurs in the previous line, a pronoun phrase is substituted here to suit English style, which is less tolerant of such repetition.

[10:33]  ¹⁰ tn Although the Greek word translated “benefit” occurs only once in this verse, the Greek article occurs twice. This indicates an implied repetition of the term, which has been included twice in the translation for the sake of clarity and English style.

[14:20]  ¹¹ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:10.

[15:3]  ¹² tn Grk “among (the) first things.”