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1 & 2 Corinthians are the only letters he wrote to the Corinthians

False, there are more letters we just simply don't have them

1 corinthians is occasioned by both _______________ by Chloe's people and ____ written by the corinthians

oral reports; a letter

Paul's response to __________________________

the Corinthian letter

Corinthians question

is it good for a man to not have sexual relations with a woman

The rhetorical marker ________occurs elsewhere in the letter, signaling a _______________raised by the Corinthians in their letter:

peri de, question or topic

peri de

"now concerning"

1 Corinthians is occasioned by both ______________by Chloe's people and a ______________by the Corinthians

oral reports, a letter written

Rhetorical Use of_______________________

Corinthians assertations

Corinthians assertations

-Paul quotes Corinthians to correct them

-quotation marks are added

What is at issue?

Most likely, celibacy(abstinence) within marriage.

Pauls response

-When tempted by sexual immorality, marriage is appropriate

-Marital sex is appropriate

Marital sex is _____________ (vs. 3), becausethe husband-wife relationship is ___________(vs. 4)

mutual, mutual

An exception: abstinence when______________ (again, ____________) for religious purpose, and then only temporarily (vs. 5). This is Paul's advice, not a command

agreed upon, (again, mutuality)

What reasons justify 1 Cor. 11 and 14?

-Textual Issue

-Corinthian Slogan

-Unmarried women vs married women

Textual Issue

Paul wrote 11; Paul did not write 14 (scribal note)

11 and 14 are about

woman being silent

Corinthian Slogan

Paul's position in 11; Corinthians' position in 14

Unmarried women vs married women

11 assumes unmarried women; 14 assumes married women

celibacy and marriage are both ___________

a gift

celibacy is not a ___________ decreed for __________

rule, all