Chapter 15 - The Holy Spirit Renews Nature

15:1-11 - Christ’s Resurrection is the Beginning

15:12-34 - Our Resurrection Will Follow

15:35-58 - The Body of the Resurrection

All Things Decently and In Order  (Ch 14)

14:1-5 - Pursue Love and Desire the Gifts

14:6-25 - The Proper Purpose of the Gifts

14:26-36 - Decency and Order

The Excellency of Charity  (Ch 13)

13:1-3 - The Gifts Cannot be Apart from Charity

13:4-7 - The Nature of Charity

13:8-13 - Charity is the End

The Gifts and the Body  (Ch 12)

12:1-3 - The Essential Spiritual Manifestation

12:4-11 - Diversity of Gifts and Unity of Body

12:12-20 - Separation from the Body

12:21-26 - Rejecting others from the Body

12:27-31 - Order in the Church and Order of Excellence

The Lord’s Supper  (Ch 11 pt 2)

11:2, 17-22 - New Factions

11:23-26 – The Tradition of the Supper

11:27-34 – Discerning the Body

Chapter 11 begins Paul’s second major attack on personal ambition. In 5-10 Paul argues against liberty (or authority) which dominates our discernment and judgment, and  he demonstrates the damage it does to the body. He ends with a call to do all things in such a manner that we are fellow partakers in the life of the Gospel. Now he establishes order in the church by placing restrictions on the body. While they have authority, it must be at times set aside because not all things are good for building up the body as a whole, which he established as a priority in the church in the prior section.

Paul’s polemic has been to take various connected and unconnected illustrations (created order, local customs) to discourage division among the sexes, to tamper out paganization of the worship service and to call for orderly practices that edify one another. He believes that men and women play equal but distinct roles in that. Each of us exists because of the other and to have a truly complete worship both are necessary. Both are the image of God, rely on the other, reflect the glory of the other and see the glory of the other.

Things Written Of - Participation is Greater Than Individuality (Ch 10)

10:1-5 - God’s Hand in Israel’s History

10:6-10 - Repeating Israel’s Failure

10:11-13 - Avoiding the Presumption of Righteousness

10:14-22 - Participation in Christ and His People

10:23-32 - Doing All to the Glory of God

Things Written Of - Necessity is Greater Than Freedom (Ch 9)

9:1-2 - Paul’s Superior Authority

9: 3-11 - Paul’s Rights and Liberties

9:12b-14 - A Rejection of Rights

9:15-18 - Necessity is Greater Than Freedom

9:19-23 - Sharing in the Gospel

9:24-27 - Obtaining the Gospel

Things Written Of - Food Offered to Idols (Ch 8)

8:1-5 - What we know

8:6-13 - What we do with what we know

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Things Written Of: Marriage and Mutual Benefit (Ch 7)

7:1-7 - It is Good Not to Touch a Woman

7:8-9 - To the Unmarried

7:10-11 - To the Married

7:12-16 - To the Rest

7:17-24 - Live as You are Called

7:25-31 - To the Virgins (and the Unmarried?)

7:32-35 - Free From Anxieties and Devoted to the Lord