A Study of The Book of I Corinthians

I Corinthians The apostle Paul is accepted by most theologians as being the author of the Epistle to the Corinthians. He may have written the epistle as early as 54 AD. Paul wrote the epistle near the end of his three year stay in Ephesus. He was departing for Macedonia. Paul had stayed at Corinth for a year and a half. (Acts 18:11) I Corinthians 16:8 “But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.” Act 20:31 “Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.” I Corinthians 16:5 “Now I will come unto you, when I shall pass through Macedonia: for I do pass through Macedonia.” Four letters to the Corinthians are mentioned in scripture: the first has been lost. The second letter is actually I Corinthians. The third letter was also lost and the fourth is II Corinthians. I Corinthians 5:9-11 “I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: (10) Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with