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1 and 2 Corinthians

  1. Lesson One
    Overview of 1 and 2 Corinthians (Skim 1 and 2 Corinthians)
    24 Activities
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    1 Assessment
  2. Lesson Two
    Holiness in the Context of Freedom (1 Corinthians 5–8, 10, 15)
    20 Activities
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    1 Assessment
  3. Lesson Three
    Unity and Order in the Context of Diversity (1 Corinthians 1–3, 11–14)
    19 Activities
  4. Lesson Four
    Paul's Apostleship (1 Corinthians 4, 9, 16, 2 Corinthians 1–7)
    19 Activities
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    3 Assessments
  5. Lesson Five
    Author and Audience (2 Corinthians 8–13)
    25 Activities
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    2 Assessments
  6. Course Wrap-Up
    Course Completion
    1 Activity
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    1 Assessment

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Some of the most compelling passages about the Holy Spirit are found in Paul’s letters to the Corinthians.

Read Leviticus 26:11-12 below, and then 2 Corinthians 6:16. 

I will make my dwelling among you, and my soul shall not abhor you. And I will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people.
Leviticus 26:11-12 ESV

After telling the Corinthians that they are temples of the Holy Spirit in his earlier letter (1 Corinthians 6:19), Paul references the Leviticus passage in a warning against idolatry:

What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.”
2 Corinthians 6:16 ESV

  1. 2 Corinthians 6 draws a connection between the Spirit and YHWH through a reference to a Leviticus passage. How does this connection reinforce the idea that the Holy Spirit is God?
Leviticus and 2 Corinthians

Being temples of the Holy Spirit is equated with being temples of the living God. Having the Spirit in us is not about having something of or from God in us, but God Himself, the Creator of all things and God of Israel.