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Nicene & Post-Nicene · AD 325–500

1,043 passages across 16 books of the Bible · Who was this?

Commentary

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  1. 1 Corinthians 14:16
    The confirmation of the prayer comes about when people say “Amen” to it. The words spoken are confirmed in the minds of the hearers by the confession of truth.

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  2. 1 Corinthians 14:20
    Paul wants them to be mature intellectually so they will grasp accurately what is needed for the upbuilding of the church. In this way they will leave behind malice and errors, striving instead for the things which are conducive to the good of the brotherhood.

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  3. 1 Corinthians 14:21
    The Lord said this about those whom he knew in advance would not believe in the Savior. For to speak in other tongues and with other lips is to preach the New Testament.

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  4. 1 Corinthians 14:22
    The utterances of God are hidden beneath the veil of an unknown tongue, so that they should not be seen by unbelievers. Paul was saying that tongues are useful for hiding ideas from unbelievers.

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  5. 1 Corinthians 14:25
    When he sees that God is being praised and that Christ is being adored and that nothing is disguised or being done in secret, as happens among pagans, he will understand clearly that this is true religion.

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  6. 1 Corinthians 14:26
    Particular effort should be made to ensure that unlearned people will benefit. Nothing should be done to hide things from them because of their lack of learning.

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  7. 1 Corinthians 14:27
    Paul does not want these people to take up the whole day and leave insufficient time for expounding the Scriptures.

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  8. 1 Corinthians 14:29
    Paul allowed others to ask questions about ambiguous matters, so that they might be elucidated by clearer discussion.

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  9. 1 Corinthians 14:30
    In particular, the higher-ranking person should give way to the lower. It is simply not the case that every privilege can be granted to a single individual. Nor can it be that anyone, however low in the hierarchy, should have nothing given to him. No one is without the grace of God.

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  10. 1 Corinthians 14:31
    It is a tradition of the synagogue which Paul is asking us to follow, whereby the people dispute while seated in chairs, on benches or on the floor, according to their rank. If a revelation has been given to someone sitting on the floor, he should be allowed to speak and not be despised because of his low rank.

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  11. 1 Corinthians 14:32
    The Spirit is said to be subject so that he may facilitate the good efforts which he prompts.

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  12. 1 Corinthians 14:33
    Those who are called in peace ought to aim for patience, so that the laws of peace are not broken.

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  13. 1 Corinthians 14:35
    It is shameful because it is contrary to discipline for them to presume to speak about the law in the house of God, who has taught that they are subject to their husbands, when they know that men have the primacy there and that for them it is more fitting to be free to pray while holding their tongues. If they dare to speak in church, it is a disgrace, because they are veiled in order to appear humble. Moreover, women like this show that they are immodest, which is a disgrace to their husbands too. For when women are insolent, their husbands receive the blame as well.

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  14. 1 Corinthians 14:36
    Paul issued the Corinthians with this reproof because they were so elated with vanity. The suggestion was that if they did not obey the words of the faith, there would be no one who would believe.

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  15. 1 Corinthians 14:37
    Paul is alluding to the false apostles mentioned above, by whom they had been misled. They were teaching things which people wanted to hear but which were not of God. By saying that he was handing on nothing of his own, Paul was trying to indicate that what he was saying came from God and not from men. He therefore preaches consistently, with a clear conscience because he does not desire to please men but God.

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  16. 1 Corinthians 14:39
    In order to console them after all his rebukes, Paul calls them brothers and encourages them to have a desire to prophesy, so that by frequent discussion and exposition of the divine law they may become better equipped to be able to learn that what the false apostles were teaching was perverse.

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  17. 1 Corinthians 14:39
    Anyone who does not recognize that what the apostle says is from God will not be recognized on the day of judgment.

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  18. 1 Corinthians 14:40
    Something is done decently when it is done peacefully and with discipline.

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  19. 1 Corinthians 15:1
    Paul is showing the Corinthians that if they have been led away from his teaching, especially from belief in the resurrection of the dead on which it is based, they will lose everything they have believed.

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  20. 1 Corinthians 15:3
    The prophet Isaiah said: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter” [Is 53:7] and so on. Revelation [13:8] adds that he was slain from before the foundation of the world. And Deuteronomy [28:66] says: “You will see your life hanging before your eyes, yet you will not believe.” This is expressed in the future tense, to prevent the wicked from claiming that it does not apply to Christ.

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