The First Letter to the Corinthians

1. 1

   1 Corinthians 1

   31 verses

   He reproveth their dissensions about their teachers. The world was to be saved by preaching of the cross, and not by human wisdom or eloquence.

2. 2

   1 Corinthians 2

   16 verses

   His preaching was not in loftiness of words, but in spirit and power. And the wisdom he taught was not to be understood by the worldly wise or sensual man, but only by the spiritual man.

3. 3

   1 Corinthians 3

   23 verses

   They must not contend about their teachers, who are but God's ministers and accountable to him. Their works shall be tried by fire.

4. 4

   1 Corinthians 4

   21 verses

   God's ministers are not to be judged. He reprehends their boasting of their preachers and describes the treatment the apostles every where met with.

5. 5

   1 Corinthians 5

   13 verses

   He excommunicates the incestuous adulterer and admonishes them to purge out the old leaven.

6. 6

   1 Corinthians 6

   20 verses

   He blames them for going to law before unbelievers. Of sins that exclude from the kingdom of heaven. The evil of fornication.

7. 7

   1 Corinthians 7

   40 verses

   Lessons relating to marriage and celibacy. Virginity is preferable to a married state.

8. 8

   1 Corinthians 8

   13 verses

   Though an idol be nothing, yet things offered up to idols are not to be eaten, for fear of scandal.

9. 9

   1 Corinthians 9

   27 verses

   The apostle did not make use of his power of being maintained at the charges of those to whom he preached, that he might give no hindrance to the gospel. Of running in the race and striving for the mastery.

10. 10

    1 Corinthians 10

    33 verses

    By the example of the Israelites, he shews that we are not to build too much upon favours received but to avoid their sins and fly from the service of idols and from things offered to idols.

11. 11

    1 Corinthians 11

    34 verses

    Women must have a covering over their heads. He blameth the abuses of their love feasts and upon that occasion treats of the Blessed Sacrament.

12. 12

    1 Corinthians 12

    31 verses

    Of the diversity of spiritual gifts. The members of the mystical body, like those of the natural body, must mutually cherish one another.

13. 13

    1 Corinthians 13

    13 verses

    Charity is to be preferred before all gifts.

14. 14

    1 Corinthians 14

    40 verses

    The gift of prophesying is to be preferred before that of speaking strange tongues.

15. 15

    1 Corinthians 15

    58 verses

    Christ's resurrection and ours. The manner of our resurrection.

16. 16

    1 Corinthians 16

    24 verses

    Of collection of alms. Admonitions and salutations.

Bp. Richard Challoner · chapter summaries

14 more, on the chapter pages

• 1 Corinthians 11:24St. Thomas Aquinas
• 1 Corinthians 12:18St. Thérèse of Lisieux
• 1 Corinthians 12:31St. Thérèse of Lisieux
• 1 Corinthians 13:2St. Catherine of Siena
• 1 Corinthians 13:3St. Teresa of Ávila
• 1 Corinthians 13:4St. John Bosco
• 1 Corinthians 13:4St. Clement of Rome
• 1 Corinthians 13:7St. John of the Cross
• 1 Corinthians 13:8St. Bernard of Clairvaux
• 1 Corinthians 13:13St. John of the Cross
• 1 Corinthians 15:9St. Patrick
• 1 Corinthians 15:53St. Irenaeus
• 1 Corinthians 15:55St. John Chrysostom
• 1 Corinthians 16:22St. Alphonsus Liguori

No more readings are listed here; the liturgical calendar has every date through December 31, 2028.

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