The World English Bible (WEB): 1 Corinthians
Written around 54 AD, this letter pulses with the urgency of a pastor confronting a church on the verge of tearing itself apart. The Corinthian community was fractured, with members aligning themselves behind different spiritual leaders like sports teams, boasting about wisdom that meant nothing, and normalizing sexual immorality that would have shocked even their pagan neighbors. Paul meets this chaos not with abstract theology but with devastating practical wisdom: yes, there are spiritual gifts, but without love they are nothing but noise. Yes, there is resurrection, and it changes everything about how we live now. The famous thirteenth chapter on love has been read at countless weddings, but in context it is a fierce correction to spiritual pride, not soft romantic sentiment. This is a letter written to real people with real problems, and its counsel on division, bodies, money, and community remains startlingly immediate. Two thousand years later, Paul still speaks to anyone trying to figure out what it actually means to follow Jesus in a complicated world.
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“Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.””
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“I believe in happy endings,” I tell him. “And it feels like this movie has gone on forthe right amount of time.”“Movie?” Dr. Patel says, and I think he would look exactly like Gandhi if he had thosewire-rim glasses and a shaved head, which is weird, especially since we are in leatherrecliners in such a bright, happy room and well, Gandhi is dead, right?“Yeah,” I say. “Haven’t you ever noticed that life is like a series of movies?””
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“Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.””
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“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.””
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“Blessed are the peacemakers:for they shall be called the children of God.””
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“To you, Pharisees, teachers of law, hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices and mint. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law”
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“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother. And a person's enemies will be those of his own household.””
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“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.””
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“So the last will be first, and the first will be last.””
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