Join Miguel Mendez and Joey Oh for the lesson study this week.

What makes us valuable to God—all stubborn, broken, wayward as we are?

It’s not the sometime good we do—

forgiving unrepentant foes;

feeding hungry kids afar;

warming pews and saying prayers;

performing unpaid mission work.

Not one of these, nor all of them, can make us dearer to the One who chooses from His unforced, unrequired love to cherish every soul He made. “I have loved you with an everlasting love,” He says. “I have drawn you with unfailing kindness” (Jer 31:3).

This grace confounds the wisdom of the world:

no ledgers; no accounts;

no keeping track of charities;

no earning credit with a boss;

no bank of kindnesses to set against our debts and deficits.

We fall back in amazed relief: “I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love” (Rom 8:38).

Grace leads us, in the end, to praise—the joy we were created for.

Now stay in it. -Bill Knott

What makes us valuable to God—all stubborn, broken, wayward as we are?

It’s not the sometime good we do—

forgiving unrepentant foes;

feeding hungry kids afar;

warming pews and saying prayers;

performing unpaid mission work.

Not one of these, nor all of them, can make us dearer to the One who chooses from His unforced, unrequired love to cherish every soul He made. “I have loved you with an everlasting love,” He says. “I have drawn you with unfailing kindness” (Jer 31:3).

This grace confounds the wisdom of the world:

no ledgers; no accounts;

no keeping track of charities;

no earning credit with a boss;

no bank of kindnesses to set against our debts and deficits.

We fall back in amazed relief: “I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love” (Rom 8:38).

Grace leads us, in the end, to praise—the joy we were created for.

Now stay in it. -Bill Knott

First and Second Corinthians — Paul’s Ministry in Corinth — Paul’s Letters to the Corinthians

Join us as we study the Bible Study Guide for the third quarter of 2026 called First and Second Corinthians. We are studying the lesson for week 1 called Paul’s Ministry in Corinth.    

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Paul's Letters to the Corinthians

Read 1 Corinthians 1:11-13; 1 Corinthians 4:14; 1 Corinthians 5:11; 1 Corinthians 7:1; and 1 Corinthians 14:37, 40. Also read 2 Corinthians 1:12, 2 Corinthians 2:9, 2 Corinthians 11:3, and 2 Corinthians 13:10. How do these passages help us understand why Paul wrote letters to the Corinthians?

Paul was in Ephesus when he wrote 1 Corinthians (1 Cor. 16:5-9). The family of Chloe went to him with the report that things were not going too well back in Corinth (1 Cor. 1:11). In 1 Corinthians 1-6, Paul addresses the issues brought by Chloe's household. The problems include factionalism, sexual immorality, lawsuits, and prostitution. Paul also received a letter with specific questions (1 Cor. 7:1). His response fills the space from chapter 7 onward. The questions were related to marriage, divorce, celibacy, food sacrificed to idols, conduct in worship, the use of spiritual gifts, and incorrect understanding of the resurrection. The church of Corinth was very problematic and immature. Perhaps your local church has many problems. Yet the church at Corinth was probably worse.

Paul's first letter to the Corinthians is very relevant to our time, as well. After all, don't we, to some degree, face some of the same issues in many of our churches today? This letter has much to say to us. It is "one of the richest, most instructive, most powerful of all his letters."--Ellen G. White, The Acts of the Apostles, p. 301.

Paul may have written three or four letters to the Corinthians (compare with 2 Cor. 10:9). He wrote an initial letter before 1 Corinthians (1 Cor. 5:9), but it is lost. Before 2 Corinthians, he wrote a letter referred to by scholars as the "severe letter" (2 Cor. 2:3-4, 9; 2 Cor. 7:8), but it is lost, too. Some think that he