1 Corinthians 1:2
Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:
King James Version
In Context
1Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,
3Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Cross References
Genesis 4:26And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.
Genesis 13:4Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
John 17:17Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
Acts 9:14And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name.
Acts 10:36The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:)
Acts 18:1After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth;
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 1:2-10
< Corinth was a principal city of Greece, in that particular division of it which was called Achaia. It was situated on the isthmus (or neck of land) that joined Peloponnesus to the rest of Greece, on the southern side, and had two ports adjoining, one at the bottom of the Corinthian Gulf, called Lechæum, not far from the city, whence they traded to Italy and the west, the other at the bottom of the Sinus Saronicus, called Cenchrea, at a more remote distance, whence they traded to Asia. From this situation, it is… Read the whole commentary →