17 For you are giving thanks well enough, but the other person is not edified.

So, faced with this confrontation to his ministry, Paul left Corinth and returned to Ephesus in the midst of a largescale rebellion against his apostolic authority (1:23–2:5; 7:12), determined not to make another “painful visit” (2:1–2). Are you not my work in the Lord?

This letter is part of Paul’s correspondence with the Corinthian congregation founded by him and composed of Gentile Christians. Regarding marriage, Paul states that it is better for Christians to remain unmarried, but that if they lacked self-control, it is better to marry than "burn" (πυροῦσθαι) which Christians have traditionally thought meant to burn with sinful desires.

22 If anyone does not love the Lord, he is to be accursed. In general, divisions within the church at Corinth seem to be a problem, and Paul makes it a point to mention these conflicts in the beginning. 24 My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Paul was deeply concerned for the spiritual health of the Corinthian church, which had been deprived of his guidance for several years. 24 then comes the end, when He hands over the kingdom to the God and Father, when He has abolished all rule and all authority and power. 4:14–16). When you sign up for my newsletter, your email address will not be shared. 10 Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without cause to be afraid, for he is doing the Lord's work, as I also am. There is a consensus among historians and theologians that Paul is the author of the First Epistle to the Corinthians (c. AD 53–54).

Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough?

28 But a man must examine himself, and in so doing he is to eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 2 and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 14 But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; 13 Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?

33 just as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit but the profit of the many, so that they may be saved. The Lockman Foundation publishes the New American Standard Bible (1977), La Biblia de las Américas (1986), the New American Standard Bible Update (1995), Nueva Biblia Latinoamericana de Hoy (2005), and the Amplified Bible (2015).

[1 Cor.1:1–2] Scholars believe that Sosthenes was the amanuensis who wrote down the text of the letter at Paul's direction. 46 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual. 32 Give no offense either to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God;

To members of the community quarreling about the nature and distribution of spiritual gifts, Paul replies that jealousy among those working in the Spirit of God is as irrational as jealousy between the eye and the ear: both are essential to the well-being of the body as a whole. 4 For I am conscious of nothing against myself, yet I am not by this acquitted; but the one who examines me is the Lord. 22 On the contrary, it is much truer that the members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary; 13 No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man;

24 but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 18 I thank God, I speak in tongues more than you all; 15 If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. 30 For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and a number sleep. 22 So then tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers; but prophecy is for a sign, not to unbelievers but to those who believe. We know that Paul wrote at least two other letters to Corinth (see 1 Cor 5:9; 2 Cor 2:3–4) in addition to the two that we now have; this theory holds that the additional letters are actually contained within the two canonical ones. 12:14; 13:1).