The Bible in a Year

New Testament

I Corinthians 1-13
Read this coming week:
May 2 Judg 10‐11, Ps 111, 1 Cor 1 May 3 Judg 12‐14, Ps 112, 1 Cor 2‐
3May 4 Judg 15‐16, Ps 113, 1 Cor 4‐5 May 5 Judg 17‐18, Ps 114, 1 Cor 6‐7
May 6 Judg 19‐21, Ps 115, 1 Cor 8‐9 May 7 Ruth 1, Ps 116, 1 Cor 10 May
8 Ruth 2‐4, Ps 117, 1 Cor 11 May 9 1 Sam 1‐2, Ps 118, 1 Cor 12‐13

Reading Questions
For next week you’re reading I Corinthians 1 to 13.
Answer the following:
• Why do you think Paul alludes to the “wisdom” of
Christ in the first chapter?
• Who are the different people that the Corinthians
are claiming to follow?
• Who does Paul tell the Corinthians to imitate?
• Who will judge angels?
• Why is it allowable to eat food offered to idols?
• When is it not allowable to east food offered to
idols?
• What are some of the problems with the
Corinthian practice of communion?
• What are the gifts of the Spirit that Paul outlines?
Paul, Aquila, Priscilla, and
Corinth
Paul first preached the Gospel to the cosmopolitan town
of Corinth after leaving Athens (Acts 18) during his
second missionary journey. In Corinth, he found Aquila,
a Jew, and his wife Priscilla. Aquila and Priscilla were
tent makers like Paul, and it appears that they soon
developed a fast friendship and even possibly a
business partnership.

Aquila and Priscilla appear to have been pushed out of

Rome by an edict of the emperor Claudius who no
longer wanted Jews living in Rome. Suertonius, a
Roman historian, records that Claudius’ motivation for
expelling the Jews from Rome was controversy and
strife over a certain “Chrestus” in Latin. This Chrestus
could have been a possible reference to the Greek
“Christos”, or “Christ”.

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