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Despite the attributed title "1 Corinthians", this letter was not the first written by Paul to the church in Corinth, only the first canonical letter. 1 Corinthians is the second known letter of four from Paul to the church in Corinth, as evidenced by Paul's mention of his previous letter in 1 Corinthians 5:9. [26]
Paul and his companions, Silas and Timothy, had plans to journey to the southwest portion of Asia Minor to preach the gospel but during the night, Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and begging him to go to Macedonia to help them. After seeing the vision, Paul and his companions left for Macedonia to preach the gospel to them. [134]
A first, or "zeroth", epistle to Corinth, also called A Prior Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians, [16] or Paul's previous Corinthian letter, [17] possibly referenced at 1 Corinthians 5:9. [18] A third epistle to Corinth, written in between 1 and 2 Corinthians, also called the Severe Letter, referenced at 2 Corinthians 2:4 [19] and 2 Corinthians ...
Some scholars believe that Paul visited Corinth for an intermediate "painful visit" (see 2 Corinthians 2:1) between the first and second epistles. After writing the second epistle, he stayed in Corinth for about three months [ 58 ] in the late winter, and there wrote his Epistle to the Romans .
Paul's letter to the Romans was written in Corinth sometime between the years 56 and 58 in order to solicit support for an anticipated missionary journey to Spain. [2] Although he had not yet visited Rome, Paul would have been familiar with the community and its circumstances through Priscilla and Aquila , who were in Corinth, having previously ...
Papyrus 124 contains a fragment of 2 Corinthians (6th century AD). The Second Epistle to the Corinthians [a] is a Pauline epistle of the New Testament of the Christian Bible.The epistle is attributed to Paul the Apostle and a co-author named Timothy, and is addressed to the church in Corinth and Christians in the surrounding province of Achaea, in modern-day Greece. [3]
In the fall of 55 or 56 CE, Paul, as he himself departed from Asia, sent Titus from Ephesus to Corinth, with full commission to remedy the fallout precipitated by Timothy's delivery of 1 Corinthians [6] and Paul's "Painful Visit", [7] particularly a significant personal offense and challenge to Paul's authority by one unnamed individual. [8]
Timothy was with Paul in Corinth during the winter of 57–58 when Paul dispatched his Letter to the Romans. [22] According to Acts 20:3–6, [23] Timothy was with Paul in Macedonia just before Passover in 58; he left the city before Paul, going ahead of him to await Paul in Troas. [24] "