1 Corinthians 15:1 Cross References - Goodspeed

¹ Now I want to remind you, brothers, of the form in which I presented to you the good news I brought, which you accepted and have stood by,

¹⁶ It is so too with the ones sown on the rocky ground; they gladly accept the message as soon as they hear it, ¹⁷ but it takes no real root in them and they last only a little while; then when trouble or persecution comes because of the message they give it up at once. ¹⁸ It is different with those sown among the thorns. They are people who listen to the message, ¹⁹ but the worries of the time and the pleasure of being rich and passions for other things creep in and choke the message out and it yields nothing. ²⁰ And the ones sown in good ground are the people who listen to the message and welcome it and yield thirty, sixty, even a hundredfold.

⁴⁸ Whoever rejects me and refuses to accept my teachings is not without his judge; the very message I have given will be his judge on the Last Day,

⁴¹ So they welcomed his message and were baptized, and about three thousand people joined them that day.

¹ The apostles and brothers all over Judea heard that the heathen had also accepted God's message,

⁴ Every Sabbath he would preach in the synagogue, and try to convince both Jews and Greeks. ⁵ By the time Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was absorbed in preaching the message, emphatically assuring the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

¹⁶ on that Day when, as the good news I preach teaches, God through Christ Jesus judges what men have kept secret,

² by whom we have been introduced through faith to the favor of God that we now enjoy, and let us glory in our hope of sharing the glory of God.

⁴ I am always thanking God about you, for the blessing God has given you through Christ Jesus. ⁵ For you have grown rich in everything through union with him—in power of expression and in capacity for knowledge. ⁶ So your experience has confirmed the testimony that I bore to Christ, ⁷ and there is no gift that you lack even while you are waiting for our Lord Jesus Christ to reappear, ⁸ and at the Day of our Lord Jesus Christ he will insure your complete vindication.

²³ but we proclaim a Christ who was crucified—an idea that is revolting to Jews and absurd to the heathen, ²⁴ but to those whom God has called, whether they are Jews or Greeks, a Christ who is God's power and God's wisdom.

² for I resolved, while I was with you, to forget everything but Jesus Christ and his crucifixion. ³ For my part, I came among you in weakness and with a great deal of fear and trembling, ⁴ and my teaching and message were not put in plausible, philosophical language, but they were attended with convincing spiritual power, ⁵ so that your faith might rest, not on human philosophy, but on the power of God. ⁶ Yet there is a wisdom that we impart when we are with people who have a mature faith, but it is not what this world calls wisdom, nor what the authorities of this world, doomed as they are to pass away, would call so. ⁷ But it is a mysterious divine wisdom that we impart, hitherto kept secret, and destined by God before the world began for our glory.

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

³ For I passed on to you, as of first importance, the account I had received, that Christ died for our sins, as the Scriptures foretold, ⁴ that he was buried, that on the third day he was raised from the dead, as the Scriptures foretold, ⁵ and that he was seen by Cephas, and then by the Twelve. ⁶ After that he was seen by more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, although some of them have fallen asleep. ⁷ Then he was seen by James, then by all the apostles, ⁸ and finally he was seen by me also, as though I were born at the wrong time. ⁹ For I am the least important of the apostles, and am not fit to be called an apostle, because I once persecuted God's church. ¹⁰ But by God's favor I have become what I am, and the favor he showed me has not gone for nothing, but I have worked harder than any of them, although it was not really I but the favor God showed me. ¹¹ But whether it was I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.

²⁴ Not that we are the masters of you and your faith; we are working with you to make you happy, for in your faith you stand firm enough.

⁶ I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from him who called you by the mercy of Christ, to some different good news— ⁷ not that there is any other, only that there are some people who are trying to unsettle you and want to turn the good news of the Christ around. ⁸ But even if we or an angel from heaven preach to you good news that contradicts the good news we have preached to you, a curse upon him! ⁹ We have said it before, and I repeat it now—if anyone is preaching to you good news that contradicts the good news you have already received, a curse upon him! ¹⁰ Is that appealing to men's weaknesses, or to God? Is that trying to suit men? If I were still doing that, I would be no slave of Christ. ¹¹ For I tell you plainly, brothers, that the good news that I preached is not a human affair. ¹² I did not receive it from any man, and I was not taught it, but it came to me through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

⁶ And you followed the example set by us and by the Lord, for though our message brought you great trouble, you welcomed it with joy inspired by the holy Spirit,

¹³ We for our part constantly thank God for another reason too—because when you received God's message from our lips, you welcomed it not as the message of men but as the message of God, as it really is, which does its work in the hearts of you believers.

¹ Now, brothers, we ask and entreat you, in the name of the Lord Jesus, to live as you learned from us that you must live, to please God—as indeed you are doing, only do it more and more.

⁶ We charge you, brothers, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from any brother who lives in idleness, instead of following the teaching you received from us.

¹² By Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I think him, I have written you this short letter to encourage you and bear my testimony that this is what the true mercy of God means. Stand fast in it.