Survey of the book of 1 Corinthians

The Letter to the Corinthians and Its Corrective Purpose

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The book of 1 Corinthians. This is a letter from Paul. One of two letters to the Corinthian church that are scripture. Now we see that Paul wrote at least three, maybe even four letters to this church.

This letter that we have is Paul is responding to some issues that the Corinthian church raised in a letter they wrote to him. And this is him responding. This letter, where is going to be more of a correctional letter, less doctrinal letter, where much of his other letters are doctrinal in nature and practical.

This is much more corrective. Almost every chapter has some other issue that needs to be addressed. And so what we end up seeing is he starts off by having to address the issue of unity. He's going to deal with their division and divisiveness that they had within the church.

Marriage, Christian Liberty, and Worship in Corinth

But then after he gets done with that, he then is going to start moving into different topics like some immorality that they had within the church. He's going to deal with issues of marriage, issues of Christian liberty.

He's going to deal with worship. Under there, you're going to see he's going to deal with things like men and women's roles, head coverings for women. He's going to deal with the Lord's Supper and how to do that properly.

Spiritual Gifts and the Doctrine of the Resurrection

He's going to address the issue of spiritual gifts. Three whole chapters dealing with the proper use of spiritual gifts and the purpose of them. Then he's going to wrap it up with chapter 15 with a doctrinal chapter that's going to cover the doctrine of the resurrection.

Now Paul is corrective here because false teaching needs to be corrected.

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