Passage 1 Corinthians 1-9

Introduction: This Research Paper will discuss the passage 1 Corinthians: 1-9. This passage discusses the idea of sex before and after marriage, the reasons why one should marry. Paul, the apostle who wrote the letter, also touches the topic of celibacy and how it is something that is only meant to for a few people. My belief is that many people were confused on if they could have multiple sex partners or if they were supposed to live a celibate life.
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Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: ‘It is well for a man not to touch a woman.’ But because of cases of sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; likewise
There has been a previous letter written to the Corinthians, it is lost and it is brought up in chapter five of Corinthians as the previous letter (Sampley 776). Although the language of the people was Latin the letter was written in Greek (Fitzmyer 30). It is known that Paul has at least seven other verified letters that were written by him. The first letter to the Corinthians demonstrates the good and the bad that happened in Corinth (Senior 251). Paul first arrived to Corinth in 50 A.D (Sampley 775). He helped with the establishment of the Christian community in Corinth on 52 A.D. Although he helped establish the Christian community he was still humble about the idea that he is a servant from God assisting with the spread of Christianity (Senior 251). Many of the Corinthians at the time were practicing sexual abstinence due to the Latin poets Ovid and Propertius stating in their works that a worship of God came with sexual abstinence (Collins 253). With