‘Apostle Paul Was Answering Their Question.’
Here Paul was not taking the initiative to teach practical things about family and marriage but rather answering the Corinthians’ written question to him.
1 Corinthians 7:1-6.
a) 1 Corinthians 7:1. It is good for a man not to marry.
b) 1 Corinthians 7:2. Because of so much immorality in the Corinthian culture each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
c) 1 Corinthians 7:3. Both husband and wife should perform their conjugal rights to each other.
d) 1 Corinthians 7:4. The wife’s body does not belong to herself but to her husband. The husband’s body does not belong to himself but to his wife.
e) 1 Corinthians 7:5. Do not deprive one another except perhaps by agreement for a set time, to devote yourselves to prayer, and then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
f) 1 Corinthians 7:6. This was not written as a command but as a concession.
(Through this QT I understand that Apostle Paul Was Answering Their Question)
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‘When We Go Through Difficult Times.’
2 Corinthians 1:3-11.
a) 2 Corinthians 1:3. We should always be Praising the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. He is the Father of Compassion and the God of all Comfort.
b) 2 Corinthians 1:4. God comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.
c) 2 Corinthians 1:5. Both the sufferings of Christ and the consolation from Christ are abundant for us.
d) 2 Corinthians 1:6. If we are distressed it is for the Comfort and Salvation of other Believers.
e) 2 Corinthians 1:6. If we are comforted it is for the Comfort of other Believers so that they may have patient endurance in their sufferings.
f) 2 Corinthians 1:7. We should share Hope. Other Believers who are also sharing in suffering will also share in Comfort.
g) 2 Corinthians 1:8. The tremendous hardships that Apostle Paul and his team had been through.
h) 2 Corinthians 1:8-9. They felt like they were under a death sentence. All they could do was rely on God.
i) 2 Corinthians 1:10. God rescued them and continued to rescue them. They could set their Hope in God as the One Who rescues them.
j) 2 Corinthians 1:11. Prayer and Thanksgiving is an important and effective way of helping people When They Go Through Difficult Times.
(Through this Second one I realise the Faithfulness of God and my need of the Body of Christ When I Go Through Difficult Times)
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Chris.
Our Life in Christ is essentially something that we share with other people, both Believers and not. There are so many Blessings and Benefits that God has for us. Comfort is one of the unseen and yet vital Blessings that God gives to us so that we can share it with other people.
