Good morning. After Paul’s digression, we return to the thought
that the Corinthians were concerned about their friends or relatives who had
died earlier. Otherwise, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If
the dead are not raised at all, why then are they baptized for them? Exactly
what is he talking about here - being baptized for the dead? My Bible says that
the present tense suggests that at Corinth people were currently being baptized
for the dead. But because Paul does not give any more information about the
practice, no one knows for sure what he’s talking about. Many attempts have
been made to interpret the concept, none of which are for certain. The passage
does not say that Paul approved of the practice; just that he was using it to
amplify his argument that the dead are raised. Father thank You for all that
You have done for us. All we can do is to praise You every day for everything
that You have done for us.
Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me
Good morning. Paul then gives a list of a lot of things that he has gone through as an apostle. I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. There could be many people that you listen to either in church or through the Internet or other means; but there was only one person (as a general rule it was a person) that lead you to Christ. Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me. He was saying that just like a child imitates his or her father, they were to imitate him. He says that again seven chapters later. Since it is easy to forget some things about people we have not seen in a while, Paul says that he sent Timothy to them to remind them of his ways which are in Christ, just as he taught everywhere in every church. Some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you. I shall find ou...
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