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Romans

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1st Corinthians

Paul's first letter to the Corinthians was written around the year 56 A.D. from the city of Ephesus (See 1 Cor. 16:5-8). Several years prior to this time, in A.D. 51 and 52 Paul had spent nearly 18 months living in Corinth, raising up a church there through his mission efforts (See Acts 18). By A.D. 56 it had become needful to write to them and to clear up some issues and problems that had arisen within the church there. Besides Corinth (a city of nearly 700,000 inhabitants at the time) being a great international business hub (with it's two sea ports), it was also a famous city for it's sin and immorality. Corinth was home to the temple for the Greek "goddess of love," Aphrodite. With nearly 1000 temple prostitutes promoting this wicked religion from the temple grounds you can just began to imagine the kind of grotesque vice going on around there (though we need not to ponder that, but rather Christ and His holiness). The wicked vices of the city's culture had been creeping into the church and Paul had to check the evils within the church at that time. He wrote strongly and boldly to rebuke their evils and set the church on a path to true holiness and purity. The Corinthian church had the most issues to deal with of any single church that we ever read of Paul writing to, in the New Testament. May you be blessed in your study through this series and see practically how Paul's counsel for the church of Corinth back then gives for us today some extremely important words to live by.

2nd Corinthians

Some of the Corinthian believers had been swayed against Paul by false teachers, since before the writing of 1st Corinthians (see for example 1st Corinthians 9). The people had been stirred against Paul. They accused Paul of all sorts of things, such as, being proud, fickle, dishonest, and unimpressive in speech and personal appearance. Paul sent Titus to deal with some of those problems. As Titus brought back word to Paul, he was told the good news that many of the Corinthian believers had repented of their ways and accepted Paul’s authority (since having received Paul's 1st letter).Paul then expresses a tone of great thankfulness in chapters 1-9 of 2nd Corinthians, for the repentant majority. However, there was still an unrepentant minority who Paul deals with during the final chapters, 10-13.

Paul wrote 2nd Corinthians with a thankful heart, later in the year A.D. 56, after having received those good words from Titus (This was the same year in which 1st Corinthians had earlier been written). This 2nd letter was most likely written from Philippi (as Paul had moved on from Ephesus to Troas and then into Macedonia, where Philippi was located).

Galatians

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Ephesians

Ephesians comes to us from the hand of the Apostle Paul. Written in A.D. 60 or 61, it is one of Paul's four "prison epistles" (Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Philemon), written during Paul's first Roman imprisonment. This letter was written to a church that Paul knew well, having himself spent three years in the city of Ephesus, doing mission work, prior to his imprisonment. The city of Ephesus was quite well known for its amphitheater, games, and especially the temple of Diana (Artemis) (See Acts 19:27,35), which was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Paul's letter to the Ephesians deals, in the first half, with the riches and blessings we have in Christ (ch.1-3) and secondly, it covers lots of practical instruction on how to live out the Christian life, and to maintain a happy and godly family (ch.4-6). May you be blessed as you study this book!

Philippians

To those in Philippi, the ancient Macedonian city, located just above the Aegean sea, and named after King Philip, the father of Alexander the Great, was this letter addressed! Paul wrote a letter to the believers in Philippi, while he was imprisoned in Rome (A.D. 60 or 61, First Roman Imprisonment). The letter covers essential and practical Christian truths such as having a humble mind like Christ's, righteousness by faith, understanding how to advance in holiness of life, and how to live a joyful life in Christ no matter what kind of life circumstances beset us! You'll be blessed as you uncover the truths packed into this small letter to the Philippians!

Colossians

Paul's letter to the believers in Colosse was written around A.D. 60 or 61. It was one of his four "prison epistles" written during his first Roman imprisonment. This letter was carried from Rome to Colosse by the hand of Tychicus, a faithful servant of God and fellow-soldier in the gospel work. The letter holds very practical instruction concerning our faith in Christ, righteous living, and how to have godly relationships in many areas of life (i.e. Husband to wife, wife to husband, child to parent, parent to child, believer to unbeliever, servant to Master, Master to servant, the Christian to God, etc.). May you be richly blessed as you study Paul's letter to the Colossians!

Go to 1st Thessalonians on our second N.T. Letters page next!