1 Korintus 1:22

1:22 For Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks ask for wisdom,

1 Korintus 1:31

1:31 so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.” ¹ 

1 Korintus 5:6

5:6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast ²  affects ³  the whole batch of dough?

1 Korintus 6:3

6:3 Do you not know that we will judge angels? Why not ordinary matters!

1 Korintus 9:26

9:26 So I do not run uncertainly or box like one who hits only air.

1 Korintus 14:14

14:14 If ⁴  I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unproductive.

1 Korintus 15:17

15:17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is useless; you are still in your sins.

[1:31]  ¹ sn A quotation from Jer 9:24. The themes of Jer 9 have influenced Paul’s presentation in vv. 26-31. Jeremiah calls upon the wise, the strong, and the wealthy not to trust in their resources but in their knowledge of the true God – and so to boast in the Lord. Paul addresses the same three areas of human pride.

[5:6]  ² sn In this passage (5:6-8) yeast represents the presence of evil within the church, specifically the immoral person described in 5:1-5 and mentioned again in 5:13.

[5:6]  ³ tn Grk “a little yeast leavens.”

[14:14]  ⁴ tc ‡ Most witnesses, including some important ones (א A D^s Ψ 048 Ï lat sy bo), have γάρ (gar, “for”) here, while an equally impressive array of witnesses lack the conjunction (Ì⁴⁶ B F G 0243 1739 1881 sa). This conjunction was frequently added by scribes in epistolary literature as a clarifying word, making the connection with the preceding more explicit. As such, it has the earmarks of being a motivated reading and thus should be rejected. NA²⁷ places the word in brackets, indicating doubts as to its authenticity.