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{{Books of the New Testament}}
{{Paul}}
The '''First Epistle to the Corinthians'''{{Efn|The book is sometimes called the '''First Letter of Paul to the Corinthians''', or simply '''1 Corinthians'''.<ref>{{Cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=HiPouAEACAAJ |title= ESV Pew Bible |publisher = Crossway |year=2018 |isbn= 978-1-4335-6343-0 |location= Wheaton, IL |page =952 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210603093159/https://www.google.com/books/edition/ESV_Pew_Bible_Black/HiPouAEACAAJ |archive-date=June 3, 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref> It is most commonly abbreviated as "1 Cor."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bible Book Abbreviations |url= https://www.logos.com/bible-book-abbreviations |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220421100743/https://www.logos.com/bible-book-abbreviations |archive-date= April 21, 2022 |access-date= April 21, 2022 |website= Logos Bible Software}}</ref>}} ({{lang-grc|Α΄ ᾽Επιστολὴ πρὸς Κορινθίους}}) is one of the [[Pauline epistles]], part of the [[New Testament]] of the [[Christian Bible]]. The [[epistle]] is attributed to [[Paul the Apostle]] and a co-author, [[Sosthenes]], and is addressed to the Christian church in [[Ancient Corinth|Corinth]].<ref>{{bibleverse|1 Corinthians|1:1–2}}</ref> Despite the name, it is not believed to be the first such letter. Scholars believe that Sosthenes was the [[amanuensis]] who wrote down the text of the letter at Paul's direction.<ref>Meyer [http://biblehub.com/commentaries/meyer/1_corinthians/1.htm 1 Corinthians], NT Commentary, Bible hub, accessed May 17, 2022</ref> It addresses various issues that had arisen in the Christian community at Corinth and is composed in a form of [[Koine Greek]].<ref>Kurt Aland, Barbara Aland 1995 The text of the New Testament: an introduction to the critical p. 52 "The New Testament was written in Koine Greek, the Greek of daily conversation. The fact that from the first all the New Testament writings were written in Greek is conclusively demonstrated by their citations from the Old Testament..."</ref>
==Authorship==
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==Composition==
About the year AD 50, towards the end of his second missionary journey, Paul founded the church in Corinth before moving on to [[Ephesus]], a city on the west coast of today's Turkey, about {{convert|
By comparing [[Acts of the Apostles]] 18:1–17<ref>{{bibleverse|Acts|18:1–17}}</ref> and mentions of Ephesus in the Corinthian correspondence, scholars suggest that the letter was written during Paul's stay in Ephesus, which is usually dated as being in the range of AD 53–57.<ref>[http://www.studylight.org/enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T2324 Corinthians, First Epistle to the], "The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia", Ed. James Orr, 1915.</ref><ref>[http://catholic-resources.org/Bible/Pauline_Chronology.htm Pauline Chronology: His Life and Missionary Work], from [http://catholic-resources.org Catholic Resources] by Felix Just, S.J.</ref>
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==Structure==
[[File:Codex Amiatinus (1 Cor 1,1-21).jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|1 Corinthians 1:1–21 in [[Codex Amiatinus]] from the 8th century
[[File:Minuscule 223 (GA) f150v.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|1 Corinthians 1:1–2a in [[Minuscule 223]] from the 14th century
The epistle may be divided into seven parts:<ref>Outline from [http://www.bible.org/page.asp?page_id=1200#P95_28390 NET Bible.org]</ref>
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=== Head covering ===
{{main|Christian headcovering}}
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1 Corinthians 11:2–16 contains an admonishment that Christian women cover their hair while praying and that Christian men leave their heads uncovered while praying. These practices were [[countercultural]]; the surrounding pagan Greek women prayed unveiled and Jewish men prayed with their heads covered.<ref name="Payne2015">{{cite book |last1=Payne |first1=Philip Barton |title=Man and Woman, One in Christ: An Exegetical and Theological Study of Paul's Letters |date=5 May 2015 |publisher=Zondervan Academic |isbn=978-0-310-52532-5 |language=English |quote=Furthermore, Greek women, including women in prayer, were usually depicted without a garment covering the head. It does not make sense that Paul would assert something was disgraceful that in their culture was not considered disgraceful. Concerning Greek customs A. Oepke observes: [...] It is quite wrong [to assert] that Greek women were under some kind of compulsion to wear a veil. [...] Passages to the contrary are so numerous and unequivocally that they cannot be offset. [...] Empresses and goddesses, even those who maintain their dignity, like Hera and Demeter, are portrayed without veils.}}</ref><ref name="Shank1992">{{cite book |first=Tom|last=Shank |year=1992 |title="...Let Her Be Veiled.": An in-depth study of 1 Corinthians 11:1–16 |publisher=Torch Publications|quote=The [male] Jews of this era worshipped and prayed with a covering called a tallith on their heads.|location=[[Eureka, Montana|Eureka]]|page=8}}</ref>
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