Foundations for Christian Living from I Corinthians

News | Our Masters Voice | September 23, 2008 at 10:36 am

ü He will keep you strong to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ – I Corinthians 1:8

ü God, who has called you into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful – I Corinthians 1:9

ü For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel—not with words of human wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power – I Corinthians 1:17

ü For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God – I Corinthians 1:18

ü I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow – I Corinthians 3:6,7

ü Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is sacred, and you are that temple – I Corinthians 3:16,17

ü My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who judges me – I Corinthians 4: 4

ü For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power – I Corinthians 4:20

ü Everything is permissible for me, but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me”—but I will not be mastered by anything – I Corinthians 5:12

ü Yet when I preach the gospel, I cannot boast, for I am compelled to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel – I Corinthians 9:16

ü Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air – I Corinthians 9:26

ü I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize – I Corinthians 9:27

ü No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it – I Corinthians 10:13

ü Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ – I Corinthians 11:1

ü Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres – I Corinthians 13:4-7

ü For God is not a God of disorder but of peace – I Corinthians 14:33

ü If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men – I Corinthians 15:19

ü I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable – I Corinthians 15:50

ü Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death is your sting? – I Corinthians 15:55

ü Because a great door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many who oppose me – I Corinthians 15:9