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1 Corinthians 16
Instructions for the collection for the saints in Jerusalem, to be set aside on the first day of each week. Paul plans to stay in Ephesus until Pentecost, for a wide door has opened, commends Timothy and greets them from the churches of Asia and from Aquila and Prisca.
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See it in the Labs
- Paul's Roads1 Corinthians · Paul's RoadsOpen
- Paul's RoadsGalatia and Phrygia (3rd journey) · Paul's RoadsOpen
- Paul's RoadsAquila · Paul's RoadsOpen
- Paul's RoadsApollos · Paul's RoadsOpen
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The letter: who wrote it, where and when
These questions are debated; the views are shown side by side with how sure each is, as in Paul's Roads.
- Textually stated
1 Corinthians written from Ephesus
'I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost' (16:8); Aquila and Priscilla and the churches of Asia send greetings (16:19).
- Textually stated
1 Corinthians was not Paul's first letter to Corinth.
1 Corinthians 5:9 refers to an earlier letter, now lost.
How sure can we be?
- Textually stated
Acts never puts Apollos and Paul in the same place; the letters show them working together.
In Acts Apollos is at Ephesus and Corinth while Paul is away (18:24–19:1). 1 Corinthians 16:12 shows him with Paul at Ephesus, unwilling to go to Corinth just then.
- Plausible
The open door: a gateway for the gospel
Philadelphia stood on the road east into Phrygia; Paul speaks of 'a great and effective door' for preaching (1 Corinthians 16:9).