1 Corinthians – Body for the LORD. What does that mean? What does it look like, not look like?

1 Corinthians Study 8  (right click, save as to download)

1 Corinthians Study    (right click, save as to download)

I. Introduction

II. Greetings From Paul and Sosthenes (1:1-1:9)

III. Divisions in the Congregation (1:10-4:21)

IV. Moral Disorder (5:1-6:20)

A. The Case of Incest (5:1-13)

B. The Problem of Litigation (6:1-8)

C. Warning Against Moral Disorder (6:9-11)

adikos : descriptive of one who violates or has violated justice, 

unjust, unrighteous, sinful, of one who deals

fraudulently with others, deceitful

pornos : a man who prostitutes his body to another’s lust for hire

a male prostitute, a man who indulges in

unlawful sexual intercourse, a fornicator

eidōlolatrēs : a worshipper of false gods, a idolater

moichos : an adulterer,  metaph. one who is faithless

toward God, ungodly

malakos : soft, soft to the touch, metaph. in a bad sense

effeminate,  of a boy kept for homosexual relations

with a man, of a male who submits his body to

unnatural lewdness, of a male prostitute

arsenokoitēs : one who lies with a male as with a

female, sodomite, homosexual

kleptēs : an embezzler, pilferer

pleonektēs : one eager to have more, esp. what belongs to others,

greedy of gain, covetous

methysos : drunken, intoxicated

loidoros : a railer, reviler

harpax : rapacious, ravenous, an extortioner, a robber

1. Who will not inherit the Messianic Kingdom? (v. 9)

D. Sexual Sin and the Body (6:12-20)

2. What is our body created for? (v.13)

3. How are we instructed to combat immorality? (v. 18)   

Genesis 39:13 : nûs : to flee, escape, to take flight, depart, disappear,

to fly (to the attack) on horseback

V. Marriage (7:1-40)

A. Marriage and Celibacy (7:1-9)

1. Prohibition of Abstinence within Marriage (7:1-7)

4. What does Paul mean, “stop depriving one another”? (v. 5)

2. The Unmarried, Widows, and Widowers (7:8-9)

5. What is Paul’s recommendation for those who aren’t married? (v. 8)

B. Marriage and Divorce (7:10-24)

1. Prohibition of Divorce when Both are Christian (7:10-11)

6. Are Christians permitted to get divorced? (v. 10-11)

2. Prohibition of Divorce when One is Christian (7:12-16)

7. What do you think Paul means when he says, “I say, not the Lord”? (v. 12)