Quotes About Corinthians

Of course when you talk about Corinthians, the club that launched me, I have a great affection. But honestly, I don't think about returning to Brazil.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 CORINTHIANS 13:13 NIV

Just so no one discerns (comes to know and comprehend) the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 1 Corinthians 2:11

I've been a Corinthians fan since I was little, even before I played there, my family also supports the club.

In his first letter to the Corinthians, Saint Paul tells us exactly what they are: faith, hope, and love.

If Paul did not love the Corinthians, he would walk away from them and let them flounder in their own cesspool of sin. Instead, he is proactive. He confronts, warns, writes, visits, and even humbles himself before them (2 Cor. 2:5-10; 12:21).

Nunc autem manet fids, sps, crits—tria haec; maior autem hs est crits. (1 Corinthians 13.13:

Corinthians 11, 14, "doth not even nature itself teach you that, if a man wear his hair long, it is a shame unto him?

And there are some parts of the King James Bible, particularly in the dense and difficult passages of Paul's Epistles, that are now, and to some extent were then, virtually unintelligible. A famous example is 2 Corinthians 6:11–13: O yee Corinthians, our mouth is open vnto you, our heart is enlarged. Yee are not straitened in vs, but yee are straitened in your owne bowels. Nowe for a recompense in the same, (I speake as vnto my children) be ye also inlarged.

Death has been swallowed up in victory'" (1 Corinthians 15:51-54).

Some of the Corinthian Christians persisted in disobedience to the point where God had to take their lives (1 Corinthians 11:30).

I've been Catholic all my life, and there's one thing I've never understood. Why didn't the Corinthians write back?

1 Corinthians 13 is nothing less than the nature of Jesus, and it is all gift to us, for His nature is ours, if He is ours.

Scripture teaches us to contend for the faith (Jude 3) and contextualize to culture (1 Cor. 9:22-23).

Corinthians 8:6—"One God, the Father…One Lord, Jesus Christ

Love is patient and kind. —1 Corinthians 13:4

So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord—who is the Spirit—makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image. —2 Corinthians 3:18

For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. —2 CORINTHIANS 4:6

Another thing he speaks of as matter of comfort is, that as he had approved himself to his own conscience, so he had also to the consciences of his hearers, the Corinthians, whom he now wrote to, and that they should approve of him at the day of judgment. 3.

The hope he had of seeing the blessed fruit of his labors and sufferings in the ministry, in their happiness and glory, in that great day of accounts. 4. That, in his ministry among the Corinthians, he had approved himself to his Judge, who would approve and reward his faithfulness in that day. These

The gospel is made use of in this affair: this light is the "light of the glorious gospel of Christ," 2 Cor. iv. 4. The gospel is as a glass, by which this light is conveyed to us, 1 Cor. xiii. 12: "Now we see through a glass."—But

We have very little evidence to suggest that serious intellectuals converted to the Christian faith between the time of Paul and the mid-second century. Most converts would have been lower-class and uneducated. This was certainly true in Paul's own day. In a letter to one of his largest congregations, he explicitly reminds the Corinthians about their own constituency: "Consider your calling, brothers and sisters: Not many of you were wise...

If I have to return to Brazil, I'd like to play at Corinthians again. It represents a lot, I was born and raised there, my footballing career began there when I was nine, I've spent my entire childhood there.

Through the proof of this service, they will glorify God for your obedience to the confession of the gospel of Christ. 2 Corinthians 9:13