1 Corinthians 15:1 Cross References - Moffatt

¹ Now, brothers, I would have you know the gospel I once preached to you, the gospel you received, the gospel in which you have your footing,

¹⁶ Similarly those who are sown 'on stony soil' are the people who on hearing the word accept it with enthusiasm; ¹⁷ but they have no root in themselves, they do not last; the next thing is that when the word brings trouble or persecution, they are at once repelled. ¹⁸ Another set are those who are sown 'among thorns'; they listen to the word, ¹⁹ but the worries of the world and the delight of being rich and all the other passions come in to choke the word; so it proves unfruitful. ²⁰ As for those who were sown 'on good soil,' these are the people who listen to the word and take it in and bear fruit at the rate of thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold."

⁴⁸ He who rejects me and will not receive my words has indeed a judge: the word I have spoken will judge him on the last day,

⁴¹ So those who accepted what he said were baptized; about three thousand souls were brought in, that day.

¹ Now the apostles and the brothers in Judaea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.

⁴ Every sabbath he argued in the synagogue, persuading both Jews and Greeks. ⁵ By the time Silas and Timotheus came south from Macedonia, Paul was engrossed in this preaching of the word, arguing to the Jews that the messiah was Jesus.

¹⁶ on the day when God judges the secret things of men, as my gospel holds, by Jesus Christ.

² Through him we have got access to this grace where we have our standing, and triumph in the hope of God's glory.

⁴ I always thank my God for the grace of God that has been bestowed on you in Christ Jesus; ⁵ in him you have received a wealth of all blessing, full power to speak of your faith and full insight into its meaning, ⁶ all of which verifies the testimony we bore to Christ when we were with you. ⁷ Thus you lack no spiritual endowment during these days of waiting till our Lord Jesus Christ is revealed; ⁸ and to the very end he will guarantee that you are vindicated on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

²³ but our message is Christ the crucified — a stumbling-block to the Jews, 'sheer folly' to the Gentiles, ²⁴ but for those who are called, whether Jews or Greeks, a Christ who is the power of God and the wisdom of God.

² I determined among you to be ignorant of everything except Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ the crucified. ³ It was in weakness and fear and with great trembling that I visited you; ⁴ what I said, what I preached, did not rest on the plausible arguments of 'wisdom' but on the proof supplied by the Spirit and its power, ⁵ so that your faith might not rest on any human 'wisdom' but on the power of God. ⁶ We do discuss 'wisdom' with those who are mature; only it is not the wisdom of this world or of the dethroned Powers who rule this world, ⁷ it is the mysterious Wisdom of God that we discuss, that hidden wisdom which God decreed from all eternity for our glory.

⁶ I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but it was God who made the seed grow.

³ First and foremost, I passed on to you what I had myself received, namely, that Christ died for our sins as the scriptures had said, ⁴ that he was buried, that he rose on the third day as the scriptures had said, ⁵ and that he was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve; ⁶ after that, he was seen by over five hundred brothers all at once, the majority of whom survive to this day, though some have died; ⁷ after that, he was seen by James, then by all the apostles, ⁸ and finally he was seen by myself, by this so-called 'abortion' of an apostle. ⁹ For I am the very least of the apostles, unfit to bear the name of apostle, since I persecuted the church of God. ¹⁰ But by God's grace I am what I am. The grace he showed me did not go for nothing; no, I have done far more work than all of them — though it was not I but God's grace at my side. ¹¹ At any rate, whether I or they have done most, such is what we preach, such is what you believed.

²⁴ (Not that we lord it over your faith — no, we co-operate for your joy: you have a standing of your own in the faith.)

⁶ I am astonished you are hastily shifting like this, deserting Him who called you by Christ's grace and going over to another gospel. ⁷ It simply means that certain individuals are unsettling you; they want to distort the gospel of Christ. ⁸ Now even though it were myself or some angel from heaven, whoever preaches a gospel that contradicts the gospel I preached to you, God's curse be on him! ⁹ I have said it before and I now repeat it: whoever preaches a gospel to you that contradicts the gospel you have already received, God's curse be on him! ¹⁰ Now is that 'appealing to the interests of men' or of God? Trying to 'satisfy men'? Why, if I still tried to give satisfaction to human masters, I would be no servant of Christ. ¹¹ No, brothers, I tell you the gospel that I preach is not a human affair; ¹² no man put it into my hands, no man taught me what it meant, I had it by a revelation of Jesus Christ.

⁶ and you started to copy us and the Lord, welcoming the word, though it brought you heavy trouble, with a joy inspired by the holy Spirit.

¹³ We thank God constantly for this too, that when you received the word of the divine message from us, you took it not as a human word but for what it really is, the word of God. It proves effective in you believers,

¹ Finally, brothers, we beg and beseech you in the Lord Jesus to follow our instructions about the way you are to live so as to satisfy God; you are leading that life, but you are to excel in it still further.

⁶ Brothers, we charge you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to shun any brother who is loafing, instead of following the rule you got from us.

¹² By the hand of Silvanus, a faithful brother (in my opinion), I have written you these few lines of encouragement, to testify that this is what the true grace of God means. Stand in that grace.