1 and 2 Corinthians
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Lesson OneOverview of 1 and 2 Corinthians (Skim 1 and 2 Corinthians)24 Activities|1 Assessment
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Getting Started
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Lesson Text: Read 1 and 2 Corinthians
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In | The Greeting of 1 Corinthians
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In | Workbook: Blamelessness and Purity, Part 1
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In | Workbook: Blamelessness and Purity, Part 2
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In | Responses to Reports
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In | Workbook: Matching Responses to Reports, Part 1
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In | Workbook: Matching Responses to Reports, Part 2
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In | Responses to Questions
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In | Rights, Tongues and Resurrection
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In | Living with an Imminent Death
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In | The Cross Is the Path of Glory
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In | Boasting, Foolishness and Wisdom
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In | Key Terms in Corinthians
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Behind | Corinth
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Behind | iMap: Letters and Visits on Paul’s Journeys
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Behind | Onsite: Corinth - Paul's Final Appeal for Judgment
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Behind | 360 View: Corinth - Bema Seat
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Behind | Claudius Expels the Jews from Rome
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Behind | Synagogues and Assemblies
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Behind | The Gallio Incident in AD 51
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In Front | Pneuma: Spirit and Spirituality
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In Front | Workbook: Wisdom and the Spirit
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Wrap-Up
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Getting Started
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Lesson TwoHoliness in the Context of Freedom (1 Corinthians 5–8, 10, 15)20 Activities|1 Assessment
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Getting Started
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Lesson Text: 1 Corinthians 5–8, 10, 15
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In | Extremes: Legalism and License
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In | Saved by Grace or Constrained by Love
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In | Workbook: Getting the Alignment Right, Part 1
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In | Workbook: Getting the Alignment Right, Part 2
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In | Gnosticism vs. Torah Holiness
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In | Mediators of a New Covenant
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In | Workbook: Paul and Ezekiel
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In | Workbook: Leviticus and 2 Corinthians
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Behind | Geographical and Cultural Setting
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Behind | Onsite: Liberty and Love - View from Corinth's Marketplace
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Behind | God's New Temple
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Behind | Onsite: Corinth - God's Temple in a Promiscuous Port
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Behind | Religious Background in Corinth
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In Front | Isolation vs. Assimilation
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In Front | Workbook: The Church and Culture
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In Front | Ritual and Recognizing the Spirit
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In Front | Workbook: Rituals in the Church
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Wrap-Up
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Getting Started
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Lesson ThreeUnity and Order in the Context of Diversity (1 Corinthians 1–3, 11–14)19 Activities
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Getting Started
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Lesson Text: 1 Corinthians 1–3, 11–14
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In | Workbook: Unity and Division
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In | Division and Diversity
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In | Order in the Assembly
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In | Workbook: Paul and the Church
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In | The Lord's Supper
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In | Paul's Statement Regarding Women
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In | Workbook: First and Second Adam, Part 1
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In | Workbook: First and Second Adam, Part 2
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Behind | Farming Metaphor
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Behind | Body Metaphor
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Behind | Women in Corinth
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In Front | Torah as Principles: Dr. Dan Juster
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In Front | A Contextualized Movement
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In Front | Gifts of the Spirit
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In Front | A Ministry of Reconciliation: Dr. Salim Munayer
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In Front | Real Love: Abuna Elias Chacour
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Wrap-Up
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Getting Started
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Lesson FourPaul's Apostleship (1 Corinthians 4, 9, 16, 2 Corinthians 1–7)19 Activities|3 Assessments
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Getting Started
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Lesson Text: 1 Corinthians 4, 9, 16, 2 Corinthians 1–7
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In | Workbook: Paul the Apostle
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In | Apostleship in a Spiritual Kingdom
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In | Suffering as an Apostle, Part 1
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In | Workbook: Suffering as an Apostle
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In | Suffering as an Apostle, Part 2
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In | Workbook: Present and Future
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In | Paul and the Beatitudes, Part 2
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In | Workbook: Paul and Jesus
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In | Workbook: One Untimely Born
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Behind | Onsite: Demolishing Strongholds - Paul's Way of Waging War
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In Front | Persecuted and Prosperity Churches
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In Front | The Prosperity Gospel and the Persecuted Church
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In Front | "Wounded" and "Muscular" Christians
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In Front | From Abuse to a Ministry of Grace: Bob Osborne
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In Front | Workbook: Persevering Through Suffering
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In Front | Workbook: Prosperity vs. Persecution
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Wrap-Up
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Getting Started
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Lesson FiveAuthor and Audience (2 Corinthians 8–13)25 Activities|2 Assessments
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Getting Started
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Lesson Text: 2 Corinthians 8–13
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In | Workbook: 1 and 2 Corinthians “Farewells”
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In | Paul's Relationship with Corinth
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In | Workbook: Paul's Lost Epistles, Part 1
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In | Paul's Lost Epistles
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In | Workbook: Paul's Lost Epistles, Part 2
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In | Paul Among the Corinthians
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In | Workbook: Boasting in 1 and 2 Corinthians
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In | A Pre-Pauline Baptismal Formula, Part 1
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In | Workbook: A Pre-Pauline Baptismal Formula, Part 2
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In | Workbook: Acts 9 and 2 Corinthians 11
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In | Preparation, Inspiration and Illumination
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Behind | Stoicism and Passive Fatalism
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Behind | Epitaphs from Roman Tombs
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Behind | Super-Apostles
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Behind | Plutarch’s Criticism of Boasting
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Behind | Workbook: Paul’s Boasting in Greco-Roman Context
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Behind | 360 View: Corinth - Erastus Inscription
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In Front | Pleasure and Comfort
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In Front | Workbook: Reflection on Comfort
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In Front | The Ancient American Church?
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In Front | Offering Peace in Persecution: Pastor Sameh and Nader Maurice
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In Front | Workbook: Guiding Questions - 1 and 2 Corinthians
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Wrap-Up
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Getting Started
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Course Wrap-UpCourse Completion1 Activity|1 Assessment
Participants 52
In | Workbook: Leviticus and 2 Corinthians
Grab your Workbook Journal!
[Record your answers in the workbook provided at the beginning of this course.]
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
- 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?
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.