Written from Ephesus to the church Paul had founded at Corinth, answering a letter of theirs and reports of trouble: factions, lawsuits between Christians, marriage, food offered to idols, disorder at the Lord’s Supper. It holds the chapter on charity and one of the earliest written accounts of the Resurrection.
Read it Search it Search every book
Every run of seven words or more that appears both here and in another book on this shelf, merged into the longest passage they have in common. 1 Corinthians shares wording with 5 of the other 55. This is quotation, or a common source, or one translator doing both — not a resemblance inferred from vocabulary.
I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal1 Corinthians 13 and Tractate 6
Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world1 Corinthians 1 and Book 13
Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world1 Corinthians 1 and Sermon 87
you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal1 Corinthians 3 and Book 13
you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal1 Corinthians 3 and Homily 55
Of the sixty counted across the shelf, the ones this book names most. A name is counted wherever it is written, whoever is speaking. Each one has a page of its own listing every chapter, in every book, that carries it.
Translator: Gregory Martin / Challoner, 1750. Source: Gutenberg 8300.
The text here is the Douay-Rheims, Challoner revision of 1750, public domain, from Project Gutenberg ebook 8300, the complete Bible.
Public domain, and free to read, copy and quote. Nothing on this page is written by anyone living: the words are the translator’s and the counts are the text’s.