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A collection of Paul's letters circulated separately from other early Christian writings and later became part of the New Testament. When the canon was established, the gospels and Paul's letters were the core of what would become the New Testament. [27] [page needed]
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]
The Pauline epistles are the thirteen books in the New Testament traditionally attributed to Paul the Apostle.. There is strong consensus in modern New Testament scholarship on a core group of authentic Pauline epistles whose authorship is rarely contested: Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, 1 Thessalonians, and Philemon.
1 Thessalonians does not focus on justification by faith or questions of Jewish–Gentile relations, themes that are covered in all other letters. Because of this, some scholars see this as an indication that this letter was written before the Epistle to the Galatians, where Paul's positions on these matters were formed and elucidated. [3]
The original text was written in Koine Greek. ... There is a similar expression in Paul's first letter to the Thessalonians, ... made the heaven, the earth, the sea ...
It is also found in the Acts of Paul, and was framed as Paul's response to a letter of the Corinthians to Paul. The earliest extant copy is Papyrus Bodmer X, dating to the third century. [1] Originally written in Koine Greek, the letter survives in Greek, Coptic, Latin, and Armenian manuscripts. [2] [1]
British Library Ms. 14470, containing the four Gospels, Paul's Letters, Acts, James, 1 Peter, and 1 John, dating from the 5th/6th century. [12] British Library Ms. 14479, containing Paul's Letters, prepared in Edessa in 534, is the earliest dated manuscript. Written in elegant Syriac alphabet, with vowels added by a later hand.
Several sheets of the manuscript are missing; It is often difficult to read the top of the pages. The first piece is the acts of the apostles (1r-65v), then comes the catholic epistles(66r-100v) and Paul's epistles(101r-241v). The following are missing from Paul's epistles: Epistle to the Romans(2,18-3,7); Epistle to the Galatians (5,19-6,12);