The First Epistle to the Corinthians Quotes

“Truly Christian conduct is not predicated on whether I have the right to do something, but whether my conduct is helpful to those about me.”
― Gordon D. Fee, The First Epistle to the Corinthians

“So they must live in hope,”
― Gordon D. Fee, The First Epistle to the Corinthians, Revised Edition (New International Commentary on the New Testament

“Our 1 Corinthians is an occasional, ad hoc response to the situation that had developed in the Corinthian church between the time Paul left the city, sometime in A.D. 51-52,13 and the writing of our letter approximately three years later. The difficulty in determining the nature of that situation is intrinsic to the text. Paul”
― Gordon D. Fee, The First Epistle to the Corinthians

“Although they were the Christian church in Corinth, an inordinate amount of Corinth was yet in them, emerging in a number of attitudes and behaviors that required radical surgery without killing the patient. This is what 1 Corinthians attempts to do.”
― Gordon D. Fee, The First Epistle to the Corinthians