Category: Daily Devotion

  Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.” 1 Corinthians 15:33 – Here’s the verse that I have heard spoken to rebellious teens and seen plastered on youth room walls. While certainly this can be applied to the idea of teaching young ones that hanging out with the wrong crowd can lead you astray…

So with yourselves, since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church. 1 Corinthians‬ ‭14‬:‭12‬ ‭- Once again we see Paul in this chapter speaking of the gifts of the Spirit. Now a fuller discussion on those would be good, but we don’t have space for that…

  Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant… 1 Corinthians 13:4 – Likely this chapter is not a foreign one to read. If you’ve attended a wedding or attended church, you at some point have likely heard this section of scripture quoted. As I was studying over this passage one…

  Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. 1 Corinthians 12:27 – Paul uses this part of the letter to break down the different gifts within the church that the Lord gives. From healing, tongues, to wisdom, all were given to the church for the benefit of the church. Yet, what Paul…

  If anyone is inclined to be contentious, we have no such practice, nor do the churches of God. 1 Corinthians 11:16 – In this chapter Paul addresses two separate traditions that were being mishandled in the Corinthian church, head coverings and the Lord’s Supper. With the Lord’s Supper people were coming in and wildly eating…

  Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor. 1 Corinthians 10:24 – Much of this letter Paul is seeking to answer the Corinthian church’s questions on what’s allowed to do and what’s not. The posture of the church seems to be, “What can I get away with and still…

For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them. 1 Corinthians 9:19 – Paul in this chapter is seeking to teach the Corinthian church of his rights as an apostle and preacher of God’s word. He had rights to be treated as an apostle and…

  However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. 1 Corinthians 8:7 – Paul is working though the list of questions the Corinthian church gave him, and now it’s all about food offered to idols. In their…

Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches. ‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭7‬:‭17‬ ‭- While there was high levels of sexual immorality in the Corinthian church and in the culture around the church at that time,…

  “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything. 1 Corinthians 6:12 – Apparently the church in Corinth had taken a very “grace-filled” approach to their way of handling sin within their lives, especially sins of sexual…