1 Corinthians 1:2
to the assembly of God which is in Corinth, to [those] sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all that in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both theirs and ours:
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
1Paul, [a] called apostle of Jesus Christ, by God's will, and Sosthenes the brother,
3Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and [the] Lord Jesus Christ.
Cross References
Genesis 4:26And to Seth, to him also was born a son; and he called his name Enosh. Then people began to call on the name of Jehovah.
Genesis 13:4to the place of the altar that he had made there at the first. And there Abram called on the name of Jehovah.
John 17:17Sanctify them by the truth: thy word is truth.
Acts 9:14and here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call upon thy name.
Acts 10:36The word which he sent to the sons of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ, (*he* is Lord of all things,)
Acts 18:1And after these things, having left Athens, he 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 →