The Book of
1 Corinthians
Paul calls a divided church back to the message of the cross, shaping worship, holiness, love, and hope for life together.
Read
Start here, then choose a chapter.
Read it as pastoral correction that mixes rebuke with patient teaching. Track how each topic is pulled back to one center: Christ crucified and raised. Notice the repeated concern for what builds others up in the church’s shared life.
Chapters
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Pick a chapter. Each chapter keeps the text, sections, questions, and context together.
Context
Big idea and book facts
1 Corinthians confronts a church pulling apart under pride, pressure, and confusion. Paul recenters everything on the crucified Messiah, then applies that center to unity, holiness, worship, love, and resurrection hope.
- Author
- Paul the Apostle
- Date
- c. AD 53-55
- Location
- Ephesus
- Audience
- Believers in Corinth
- Genre
- Epistle