Paul's Letter To The Corinthians 1-13 Analysis

I have chosen Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians 13: 1-13 for my bible passage. In Paul’s day, Corinth was the largest and most influential city in southern Greece. Athens was considered the intellectual center of Greece, and Corinth was the commercial center. The city’s rise to prominence among the cities of Greece is attributed to its central location on the east-west route between Italy and Asia Minor. Corinth’s financial prosperity was the result of business activities, athletic games, the skills, and quality of its statesmen and craftsmen. Because of its close proximity to the ocean, with ports to the east and to the west, the population of Corinth consisted largely of sailors, merchants, adventurers, and refugees. Many …show more content…
His first missionary journey was to Cyprus, Antioch, Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe. It was during this journey that Paul was stoned, but not killed while in Lystra. It was ironic that he went through the same punishment that he had sanctioned for Stephen and for the very same cause. Around 50 A.D. Paul returned to Jerusalem to report to the church elders. His visit started a dispute on whether Christians had to first become Jews. Paul said no. The controversy was temporarily solved in Paul’s favor and he then went on his second and third missionary journeys to Galatia, Phrygia, Macedonia, and Greece. After his third missionary trip, Paul returned to Jerusalem where he ran into a dispute with the Sanhedrin. He was in the middle of a civil disturbance and was arrested and brought back to Caesarea. In 1 Corinthians 13 we find one of the most beautiful and very familiar chapters in the Bible. This chapter is typically read at weddings and anniversary celebrations. It has even been set to music. This however was never the original intent. Instead, Paul was writing a rebuke to a church that was abusing their spiritual gifts. Usually this understanding is ignored and Christians never really think about the deeper meaning of the