It means they want to know what was happening that caused the book to be written and what the author intended to accomplish in writing the book.

occasion=what led up to the book being written

purpose=what the author hopes to accomplish

Compared to parchment, it was relatively inexpensive.

With age, it became very brittle.

It is durable.

It was both expensive and heavy.

formal equivalence

1. name of writer

2. name of recipient

3. greeting

4. prayer, wish, or thanksgiving

5. body

6. final greeting or farewell

(1) He says the reader should try to reconstruct the situation that was occuring at the time the epsitle was written.

(2) He says the reader needs to get used to reading the epsitle in one sitting...because that is the way it would havebeen originally read.

(1) characters

(2) plot

(3) plot resolution

Wycliffe's Bible was based on the Latin Vulgate. (That made his Bible a translation of a translation.)

Tyndale's Bible was based on Hebrew and Greek texts.

Wycliffe's Bibles were copied by hand. Tyndale's Bibles were printed on a printing press.

(1) Hook

(2) Big Idea (Thesis)

(3) Body Paragraphs

(4) Transitions between the Body paragraphs

(5) Conclusion with restatement of the thesis

From whom did the Apostle Paul receive a "report" regarding the things happening in Corinth?

1^st Corinthians 1:11

He received a report from someone named Chloe.

1^st Corinthians 1:11...For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers. 

What is the first thing Paul writes about that was contained in Chloe's report?

1^st Corinthians 1:11

He writes about the quarreling going on in Corinth among the members of the church there.

1^st Corinthians 1:11...For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers. 

What was the nature of the quarreling going on in Corinth?

1^st Corinthians 1:12

The Corinthians were dividing up in to cliques according to the "leader" they followed.

1^st Corinthians 1:12...What I mean is that each one of you says, "I follow Paul," or "I follow Apollos," or "I follow Cephas," or "I follow Christ." 

What was the real underlying issue behind their cliques?

1^st Corinthians 1:21

It seems they were arguing over which group or which leader possessed the "best" wisdom.

1^st Corinthians 1:21...For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. 

Why does Paul bring up the point that when he was among the Corinthians he chose not to display fancy or flowery speech?

1^st Corinthians 2:1...And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. ² For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 

He didn't want the Corinthians to be won to Christ simply because they were won by the eloquence or elegance of Paul's speaking ability.

In other words, he refused to play the Greek game of "who's the best speaker?"

In 1^st Corinthians 2:7, Paul says that he did actually teach a hidden wisdom. What was the wisdom he taught?

1^st Corinthians 2:7...But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. 

a field of crops, a building, a temple to the Lord

 1^st Corinthians 3:9...For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building.

 1^st Corinthians 3:10...According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. 

 1^st Corinthians 3:16...Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?

It is a plural you...a ya'll.

He is talking about the collective church...the group.

He basically says if someone destroys it, God will destroy them which is a warning not to damage the church  by divisions (the congregation not the building). 

1^st Corinthians 3:17...If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple. 

He says they should view men like him as servants of Christ and stewards (caretakers) of God's mysteries.

 ^ESV  1 Corinthians 4:1...This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Paul then says in 1st Corinthians 4, "We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute."

What's his point?

Paul then writes in 1^st Corinthians 4:11...To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are poorly dressed and buffeted and homeless, ¹² and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; ¹³ when slandered, we entreat. We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, the refuse of all things...¹⁶ I urge you, then, be imitators of me. 

What's his point?

Chloe reported there was an incestuous man in the congregation and the church had not done anything about it.

^ESV  1 Corinthians 5:1...It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife. 

He wanted them to excommunicate him...to turn him over to the devil until he came to repent.

1^st Corinthians 5:4... When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, ⁵ you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. 

He wants them to cast it out before it spreads like leaven does through a loaf of bread. He was afraid the man's sin would spread.

1^st Corinthians 5:7...Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. ¹³ God judges those outside. "Purge the evil person from among you." 

The Corinthians were taking each other to pagan courts to settle their differences.

^ESV 1 Corinthians 6:1...When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? 

He recommends believers either get someone in the church to mediate the dispute or just let it go...take it one the chin.

 1^st Corinthians 6:5...I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, ⁷ To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? 

We know that because Paul makes the point that Christians should never join their bodies to a prostitute.

1^st Corinthians 6:15...Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! ¹⁶ Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two will become one flesh." 

It is hard to know exactly but it had something to do with whether the Corinthians should still get married or not.

1^st Corinthians 7:1 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: "It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman." ² But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

He said they should stay married if they could.

 1^st Corinthians 7:13...If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. 

First, Paul thought it was beneficial to the children.

1^st Corinthians 7:14...Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy. 

Secondly, he thought it might lead to the salvation of the unbelieving partner.

1^st Corinthians 7:16...For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife? 

They were asking whether they were allowed to eat meat that had been sacrificed to idols.

1^st Corinthians 8:1...Now concerning food offered to idols:  

He said it depended on whether it would cause a "weaker brother" to stumble.

1^st Corinthians 8:13...Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble. 

First, he answers a questions about his rights as an Apostle.

1st Corinthians 9:2...If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. ⁴ Do we not have the right to eat and drink? 

Secondly, he answers a question about whether preachers should be paid.

1st Corinthians 9:13...Do you not know that those who are employed in the temple service get their food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in the sacrificial offerings? 

This is a hard one, but it seems to focus on whether or not one can eat food in a pagan temple at one of their temple feasts.

1^st Corinthians 10:20...No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons. ²¹ You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons. 

He answers the question as to whether or not women should have their heads covered when they pray in church.

1^st Corinthians 11:6...For if a wife will not cover her head, then she should cut her hair short. But since it is disgraceful for a wife to cut off her hair or shave her head, let her cover her head. 

Yes, absolutely.

1^st Corinthians 11:6...For if a wife will not cover her head, then she should cut her hair short. But since it is disgraceful for a wife to cut off her hair or shave her head, let her cover her head.

He addresses the scandalous way they are taking the Lord's Supper.

1^st Corinthians 11:20...When you come together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat. ²¹ For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal. One goes hungry, another gets drunk. 

What are the words in 1^st Corinthians 11:23ff called?

 1^st Corinthians 11:23 For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, ²⁴ and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me." ²⁵ In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me." ²⁶ For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. 

He says they eating the Lord's Supper in an unworthy manner.

1^st Corinthians 11:27...Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. 

He says it damages the soul and that some of them have died as a result.

1^st Corinthians 11:29...For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. ³⁰ That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died. 

It is hard to tell exactly but I think it had to do with which of the spiritual gifts is to be most desired.

1^st Corinthians 12:1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed. 

He says there are lots of different gifts but the gifts are given by God for the common good.

1^st Corinthians 12:7...To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. 

In 12:29 Paul writes, "Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers Do all work miracles? ³⁰ Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? ³¹ But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way."

 Each of these questions expect a "no" answer. What's Paul's point?

Tongues are good but better to speak that which edifies the church.

1^st Corinthians 14:29...Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? ³⁰ Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? ³¹ But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way. 

He says without it we are lost.

1^st Corinthians 15:17...And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. ¹⁸ Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. ¹⁹ If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied. 

He answers the question of how they should prepare for their offering for the poor saints in Jerusalem.

1^st Corinthians 16:1 Now concerning the collection for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do. ² On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come. ³ And when I arrive, I will send those whom you accredit by letter to carry your gift to Jerusalem.