“The aim of Christian ethics is not Stoic self-sufficiency, which requires proper knowledge; rather its aim is the benefit and advantage of a sister or a brother.”
— Gordon Fee, Commentary on First Corinthians
In Every Stage - Wait on the Lord (1 Corinthians 7:1-17)
“Marriage and family are temporary for this age; the church is forever. I am declaring the radical biblical truth that being in a human family is no sign of eternal blessing, but being in God’s family means being eternally blessed. Relationships based on family are temporary. Relationships based on union with Christ are eternal. Marriage is a temporary institution, but what it stands for lasts forever.”
—John Piper
Glorifying God with Your Body (1 Corinthians 6:12-20)
“This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.”
— Martin Luther
Sexual Immorality Defiles the Church (1 Corinthians 5)
“For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, ‘I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,’ and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.”
— David, Psalm 32
Confusion in the Corinthian Church (1 Cor. 3:1-17)
“The gospel is not just the ABCs of the Christian life but the A to Z of the Christian life.”
—Tim Keller
A Secret and Hidden Wisdom (1 Corinthians 2:6-16)
“God reveals Himself. He reveals Himself through Himself. He reveals Himself. … One may sum up the meaning of the doctrine of the Trinity briefly and simply by saying that God is the One who reveals Himself.”
—Karl Barth Church Dogmatics I/1
Who is Your Faith Founded on? (1 Corinthians 2:1-5)
“A sermon that just informs the mind can give people things to do after they go home, but a sermon that moves the heart from loving career or acclaim or one’s own independence to loving God and his Son changes listeners on the spot.”
— Tim Keller