{"product_id":"a-study-of-the-book-of-i-corinthians","title":"A Study of The Book of I Corinthians e-Book","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eI Corinthians\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eThe apostle Paul is accepted by most theologians as being the author\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eof the Epistle to the Corinthians. He may have written the epistle as\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eearly as 54 AD. Paul wrote the epistle near the end of his three year\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003estay in Ephesus. He was departing for Macedonia. Paul\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003ehad stayed at Corinth for a year and a half. (Acts 18:11)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eI Corinthians 16:8 “But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.”\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eAct 20:31 “Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003ethree years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.”\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eI Corinthians 16:5 “Now I will come unto you, when I shall pass\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003ethrough Macedonia: for I do pass through Macedonia.”\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eFour letters to the Corinthians are mentioned in scripture: the first has\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003ebeen lost. The second letter is actually I Corinthians. The third letter\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003ewas also lost and the fourth is II Corinthians.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eI Corinthians 5:9-11 “I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003ewith fornicators: (10) Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eworld, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003emust ye needs go out of the world. (11) But now I have written unto\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eyou not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003efornicator, or covetous, an idolater, or a railer, or drunkard, or an\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003ean extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.”\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eI Corinthians 7:1 “ Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eunto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.”\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eThese verses from I Corinthians refer to a previous epistle.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eCorinth was a prosperous city; land routes and sea routes met in\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eCorinth thus building a thriving metropolis. Corinth was the capital\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eof Achaia, a Roman province. Corinth was noted for being a vile\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003ewicked city; sin was commonplace, a ritual of worship. The goddess of love, Aphrodite, was worshiped and prostitutes were used as part\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eof the worship. This type of behavior was not only accepted but was\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eencouraged. Corinth was a city of ill-repute; its inhabitants were\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003ethought to have been immoral wicked people. the leaders of Corinth\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003ewere long-winded in their pseudo-intelligent defense of their worship\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eand morality.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Praise and Prayer Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40526240874585,"sku":"","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0794\/5163\/files\/Cover1CorinthiansFinishedFinal.jpg?v=1689552091","url":"https:\/\/praise-and-prayer-book-store.myshopify.com\/products\/a-study-of-the-book-of-i-corinthians","provider":"Praise and Prayer Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}