- I. Introduction — the initial gifts and the participation in Christ — 1:1-9
- II. Dealing with divisions — 1:10 — 4:21
- A. Christ and His cross, the unique solution to all problems in the church — 1:10-31
- 1. Christ not divided — vv. 10-17
- 2. Christ crucified, God’s power and God’s wisdom — vv. 18-25
- 3. Christ, our wisdom: righteousness, sanctification, and redemption — vv. 26-31
- B. Christ crucified, the center of the apostle’s ministry — 2:1-16
- 1. The way of the apostle’s ministry — vv. 1-5
- 2. God’s wisdom in a mystery — Christ as the deep things of God — vv. 6-10
- 3. Interpreting spiritual things with spiritual words to spiritual men — vv. 11-16
- C. The church, God’s cultivated land and God’s building — 3:1-23
- 1. Growth in life needed — vv. 1-9
- 2. Built with transformed materials, not with natural things — vv. 10-17
- 3. All things for the church and the church for Christ — vv. 18-23
- D. Stewards of the mysteries of God — 4:1-21
- 1. Faithful servants of Christ — vv. 1-5
- 2. A spectacle both to angels and to men — vv. 6-9
- 3. The offscouring of the world and the scum of all things — vv. 10-13
- 4. The begetting father — vv. 14-21
- III. Dealing with an evil brother — 5:1-13
- A. The evil one judged — vv. 1-5
- B. Keeping the Feast of Unleavened Bread — vv. 6-8
- C. Removing the evil one from the church — vv. 9-13
- IV. Dealing with lawsuits among believers — 6:1-11
- A. The judgment of the church — vv. 1-8
- B. Those not qualified to inherit the kingdom of God — vv. 9-11
- V. Dealing with the abuse of freedom — 6:12-20
- A. A basic principle — v. 12
- B. The use of the body — vv. 13-20
- VI. Dealing with marriage life — 7:1-40
- A. Concerning the gift not to marry — vv. 1-7
- B. Concerning the unmarried and the widows — vv. 8-9
- C. Concerning the married — vv. 10-16
- D. Remaining in the status of one’s calling — vv. 17-24
- E. Concerning keeping virginity — vv. 25-38
- F. Concerning remarriage — vv. 39-40
- VII. Dealing with the eating of things sacrificed to idols — 8:1 — 11:1
- A. An inadvisable eating — 8:1-13
- 1. Not according to love, which builds up — vv. 1-3
- 2. Idols being nothing — vv. 4-7
- 3. Food not commending us to God — v. 8
- 4. Stumbling weak brothers — vv. 9-13
- B. The apostle’s vindication — 9:1-27
- 1. His qualifications — vv. 1-3
- 2. His rights — vv. 4-15
- 3. His faithfulness — vv. 16-23
- 4. His endeavor — vv. 24-27
- C. The type of Israel — 10:1-13
- 1. Baptized unto Moses — vv. 1-2
- 2. Eating the same spiritual food and drinking the same spiritual drink — vv. 3-4
- 3. Most of them strewn along in the wilderness — vv. 5-13
- D. Keeping the Lord’s table from idolatry — 10:14-22
- 1. The fellowship of the Lord’s blood and body — vv. 14-18
- 2. The separation of the Lord’s table from the demons’ table — vv. 19-22
- E. The proper eating — 10:23 — 11:1
- 1. Building up others, seeking their advantage — 10:23-30, 32-33
- 2. To the glory of God — 10:31
- 3. Imitating the apostle — 11:1
- VIII. Dealing with head covering — 11:2-16
- A. The headship in the universe — vv. 2-3
- B. The head covering — vv. 4-6
- C. The reasons — vv. 7-15
- D. No contention — v. 16
- IX. Dealing with the Lord’s supper — 11:17-34
- A. The rebuking of the disorder — vv. 17-22
- B. The review of the definition — vv. 23-26
- C. The need of proving and discerning — vv. 27-29
- D. The discipline of the Lord — vv. 30-34
- X. Dealing with the gifts — 12:1 — 14:40
- A. The governing principle — 12:1-3
- B. The manifestation of the Spirit — 12:4-11
- C. One Body with many members — 12:12-27
- 1. The constitution of the Body — vv. 12-13
- 2. The indispensability of the members — vv. 14-22
- 3. The blending together of the members — vv. 23-27
- D. The placing of the gifts — 12:28-31
- E. The excellent way for exercising the gifts — 13:1-13
- 1. The need of love — vv. 1-3
- 2. The definition of love — vv. 4-7
- 3. The excelling of love — vv. 8-13
- F. The excelling of prophesying — 14:1-25
- 1. Building up the church more — vv. 1-19
- 2. Convicting people more — vv. 20-25
- G. Functioning in the church — 14:26-40
- 1. Concerning each one — v. 26
- 2. Concerning speaking in tongues — vv. 27-28
- 3. Concerning prophesying — vv. 29-33a
- 4. Concerning women — vv. 33b-38
- 5. Conclusion — vv. 39-40
- XI. Dealing with the matter of resurrection — 15:1-58
- A. Christ’s resurrection — vv. 1-11
- 1. Preached — vv. 1-4
- 2. Witnessed — vv. 5-11
- B. The rebuttal to “No resurrection” — vv. 12-19
- C. The history of resurrection — vv. 20-28
- D. The moral influence of resurrection — vv. 29-34
- E. The definition of resurrection — vv. 35-49
- 1. The body of resurrection — vv. 35-44
- 2. A spiritual body — vv. 45-49
- F. The victory of resurrection — vv. 50-58
- 1. Incorruption over corruption — vv. 50-53
- 2. Life over death — vv. 54-57
- 3. A motive for the work of the Lord — v. 58
- XII. Dealing with the collection of the gift — 16:1-9
- A. The apostle’s direction — vv. 1-3
- B. The apostle’s desire — vv. 4-9
- XIII. Conclusion — 16:10-24
- A. Intimate charges — vv. 10-18
- B. Greetings and warning — vv. 19-24
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