Now regarding the questions you asked in your letter. . . (1 Cor 7:1) Yesterday I told you we can determine the boundary lines between the topics the Corinthians asked about. Did you take time to look? I suspect most of you didn’t. Most of …
Bible Gem 363 – The Big Picture – Now Concerning the Things about which you wrote . . . (1 Cor 7:1)
Bible Gem 362 – Now Concerning the Questions you asked (1 Cor 7:1)
Now regarding the questions you asked in your letter. . . 1 Corinthians 7:1 It couldn’t be clearer that Paul has changed topic. He has been dealing with what the informants have told him. Now he moves on to deal with the matters the Corinthians …
Bible Gem 361 – Matters Arising from Informants (1 Corinthians 1 – 6)
All the issues that Paul has dealt with thus far in 1 Corinthians have been matters arising from what people have told him. Remember Paul is not very far away in Ephesus and so he is kept in touch with what is going on in …
Bible Gem 360 – The use of “naos” not “heiron” (1 Cor 3:16 & 6:19)
Don’t you realize that all of you together are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives in you? God will destroy anyone who destroys this temple. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple. 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 Don’t you …
Bible Gem 359 – Why the Plural “You” in 1 Cor 6:19
Firstly, Paul’s use of the your-body-is-the-temple-of-God/Holy-Spirit argument” is interesting. In each case he is countering something that is heinous to him. He is trying to remind the Corinthians of the sense that God indwells them. If God indwells us then how can they allow those …
Bible Gem 358 – The Plural “You” in 1 Cor 6:19 – Your answers
“. . . offensive subject line” – that was the response to me sending out the emails of the last Gem with “sexual” in the title. What a dirty world we live in when any use of the word sex or sexual is assumed to …
Bible Gem 357 – A deep concept: You are the “Temple of Holy Spirit”? (1 Cor 3:16 and 6:19)
1 Cor 3:16: Don’t you realize that all of you together are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives in you? 1 Corinthians 3:16 Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you …
Bible Gem 356 – Sexual Sin and the Temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Cor 6:15-20)
Don’t you realize that your bodies are actually parts of Christ? Should a man take his body, which is part of Christ, and join it to a prostitute? Never! And don’t you realize that if a man joins himself to a prostitute, he becomes one …
Bible Gem 355 – I am Allowed to do Anything (1 Cor 6:12-14)
You say, “I am allowed to do anything”—but not everything is good for you. And even though “I am allowed to do anything,” I must not become a slave to anything. You say, “Food was made for the stomach, and the stomach for food.” (This …
Bible Gem 354 – Where does ‘food for the stomach’ fit in? (1 Cor 6:12-14)
You say, “I am allowed to do anything” — but not everything is good for you. And even though “I am allowed to do anything,” I must not become a slave to anything. You say, “Food was made for the stomach, and the stomach for …