Pelagius

Nicene & Post-Nicene · AD 325–500

465 passages across 8 books of the Bible · Who was this?

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  1. 1 Corinthians 7:2
    People who want to be promiscuous argue that God commanded us to have sexual relations, so that the earth would be filled with human beings. But God is quite capable of making humans out of the earth, as he did at the beginning, so this is no excuse.

    COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 7

  2. 1 Corinthians 7:15
    The Lord must come before a husband or a wife.

    COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 7

  3. 1 Corinthians 7:18
    Someone who has been circumcised should not think that this is going too far, or regret it, because in its own day it was necessary. But neither should he seek to convert the uncircumcised to that practice.

    COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 7

  4. 1 Corinthians 7:20
    God does not care about our social status but about our will and mind.

    COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 7

  5. 1 Corinthians 7:40
    Happy is the woman who has a husband. Happier still is the widow who can remain chaste with little effort on her part. But happiest of all is the virgin, who can attain to the highest prize without struggling.

    COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 7

  6. 1 Corinthians 10:8
    Note that it was not just idolatry which led to death [but their immorality as well].

    COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 10

  7. 1 Corinthians 11:3
    The man is head of the woman in the natural order but not in Christ, in whom there is neither male nor female. Nevertheless, Paul wanted women to be subject to their husbands. God is the head of Christ’s humanity, because the divinity which was in the human Jesus controlled his doings.

    COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 11

  8. 1 Corinthians 11:4
    Paul was complaining because men were fussing about their hair and women were flaunting their locks in church. Not only was this dishonoring to them, but it was also an incitement to fornication.

    COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 11

  9. 1 Corinthians 11:24
    In blessing the bread even before his suffering, Jesus left behind a last commemoration, or memorial. This is rather like someone who, when about to go on a journey, leaves some token of himself with his loved one, so that whenever she looks at it she will be reminded of his goodness and love toward her.

    COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 11

  10. 1 Corinthians 13:12
    The dim mirror is the law of Moses, which contains everything in types and shadows.

    COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 13

  11. 1 Corinthians 14:8
    If it is uncertain whether the bugle is sounding for relaxation or for war, nobody will get ready for battle. The latter is how your own words should be understood, for they are meant to prepare soldiers for spiritual warfare.

    COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 14

  12. 1 Corinthians 14:11
    Any language we cannot understand we look down on as barbaric.

    COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 14

  13. 1 Corinthians 14:16
    Paul is thinking here of laypeople, who do not hold office in the church.

    COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 14

  14. 1 Corinthians 14:17
    Here Paul explains what he said above, which is that a believer should be a blessing to everyone.

    COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 14

  15. 1 Corinthians 14:23
    On the day of Pentecost the Jews said that the apostles were full of new wine. It is more or less the same thing here.

    COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 14

  16. 1 Corinthians 14:24
    The unbeliever is convicted when his conscience is struck by the teaching being given.

    COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 14

  17. 1 Corinthians 15:2
    The resurrection of the body is the whole point of our gospel message. Without it, all the works of prayer and fasting which we do are meaningless.

    COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 15

  18. 1 Corinthians 15:4
    Hosea [6:2] says: “He will revive us after two days; he will raise us up on the third day.”

    COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 15

  19. 1 Corinthians 15:13
    The one depends on the other. Either you believe both, or you believe neither.

    COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 15

  20. 1 Corinthians 15:14
    Some heretics claim that there is a resurrection of the soul but not of the body, though this makes no sense. How can there be a resurrection of something which has not fallen into the ground and died?

    COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 15

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