13 Letters/Epistles of Paul

To the CHURCHES and INDIVIDUALS…Written before the Gospels.

2O to 3O yrs. After Jesus death

1. ROMANS 2. 1 CORINTHIANS
-- from Corinth to the Roman Church -- advice to the Church of Corinth on chastity,
whose theme is relationship between marriage, etc., written at about 57
Judaism and Christianity. C.E.

3. 2 CORINTHIANS 4. GALATIANS
-- about Paul’s suffering and consolation -- written to the converts in Galatia who
were backsliding in their practices

5. EPHESIANS 6. PHILIPPIANS
-- discusses mystery of salvation and of the -- written to the Church in Philippi when Paul
Church, written at about 62 C.E. to the was a prisoner of Rome
Christians in Ephesus -- a plea for unity (about 62 C.E.)

7. COLOSSIANS 8. 1 THESSALONIANS
-- written to the Church at Colossae in highly -- written in Corinth on Paul’s first visit,
developed Christology (about 62 C.E.) telling about Christ’s second coming (51 C.E.)
to the Church in Thessalonica

9. 2 THESSALONIANS 10. 1 TIMOTHY

-- a follow up of his first letter about their -- advice to Timothy about handling wrong
attitude towards the second coming, ideas of some Ephesians (63 C.E.)
expecting it too soon

11. 2 TIMOTHY 12. TITUS

-- from Rome at the time of Paul’s 2nd -- advice to young co-workers to help them in
imprisonment, asking to protect the Christianizing the world (62 C.E.)
community from false teachings

13 PHILEMON
-- to Christian whose slave, Onesimus, had run
away, been converted and was ready to return;
begging for Christian brotherhood (62 C.E.)

\The letters or epistles that are accepted today as authentically Paul’s are:
Romans Galatians Philippians
1 Corinthians 2 Corinthians 1 Thessalonians Philemon