1 Corinthians 16:15
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for 1 Corinthians 16:15 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
1 Corinthians 16:15 is a verse from the book of 1 Corinthians in the New Testament. The KJV reads: "I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have addic..." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
1 Corinthians 16:15 — KJV
“I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)”
— 1 Corinthians 16:15 (KJV)
1 Corinthians 16:15 in Context — About the Book of 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians is pastoral surgery on a gifted, divided, messy church — addressing factions, immorality, lawsuits, worship chaos, and doubts about resurrection. It contains the love chapter read at countless weddings and the Bible's fullest teaching on spiritual gifts and the resurrection body.
Cross-References for 1 Corinthians 16:15
“And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men; leave one of your brethren here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone:”
Shares key themes with 1 Corinthians 16:15: brethren, know, house
“Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.”
Shares key themes with 1 Corinthians 16:15: brethren, know, house
“For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not. For I...: or, And I will tell him vile: or, accursed restrained...: Heb. frowned not upon them”
Shares key themes with 1 Corinthians 16:15: know, house, themselves
“And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD. by the words...: or, in the business of the LORD”
Shares key themes with 1 Corinthians 16:15: brethren, house, themselves
“In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.”
Shares key themes with 1 Corinthians 16:15: know, house, themselves
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