1 Corinthians — Greek text and reception
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Source guide and review record
Saints Translation
1 Corinthians
Complete working translation draft, V2, Sep 13, 2026. All 16 chapters and 437 Greek verse entries directly read and independently translated. The entire electronic edition-comparison apparatus was read; fifty selected variant notes and fifteen verified reception notes are supplied. Independent specialist review remains outstanding.
Text and translation
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition, edited by Michael W. Holmes (2010), Faithlife electronic repository, public version 1.2. All biblical translation was composed independently after direct Greek reading.
The directly accessed Greek file contains all 437 conventional verse positions in 16 chapters, in normal numerical order. No double-bracketed passages occur. Apparatus markers identify variants, not omitted biblical wording.
The three columns contain the source reference, Greek–English translation, and textual or attributed reception notes. This New Testament text has no Hebrew counterpart. Blank note cells do not imply a comparison classification.
Sources and access
All source access dates in the register below are consolidated here: Sep 8, 2026. The publisher’s public version 1.2 release date is Jul 10, 2023.
[SBL-1COR] Michael W. Holmes, ed., The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition; 1 Corinthians
All 16 chapters directly read, every numbered verse independently translated. Exact source-order audit accounts for all 437 source entries once.
Direct Greek electronic text SHA-256: 2a706bac29f1e34568bf6862cbc1616471511e9b915d7292adba3e93fb72c946
[SBL-1COR-APP] SBLGNT electronic edition-comparison apparatus; 1 Corinthians
Entire electronic apparatus file directly read, containing 220 verse-entry locations. Fifty selected edition-comparison notes are supplied; this does not constitute independent manuscript collation or direct consultation of each edition represented by its labels.
Direct electronic edition-comparison apparatus SHA-256: 234e25b89f92d60c9327d1485dc22a78613ae5c9acc9385c69b2646944ce8d11
[SBL-REPO] Faithlife/SBLGNT publisher repository: version and licensing declaration
Readme: provenance, public version 1.2 and its release date stated above, CC BY 4.0 license, copyright 2010 Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software.
Publisher source repository
[TH-MAL] Joseph H. Thayer, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, entry malakos; Bible Hub reproduction
Only the reproduced Thayer entry read for the stated lexical note; surrounding modern topical commentary not used.
Published historical lexicographic entry in online reproduction; not a full modern lexical survey.
[TH-ARS] Joseph H. Thayer, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, entry arsenokoitēs; Bible Hub reproduction
Only the reproduced Thayer entry read for the stated lexical note; surrounding modern topical commentary not used.
Published historical lexicographic entry in online reproduction; not a full modern lexical survey.
[TH-HYP] Joseph H. Thayer, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, entry hyperakmos; Bible Hub reproduction
Only the reproduced Thayer entry read for the stated lexical note; surrounding modern topical commentary not used.
Published historical lexicographic entry in online reproduction; not a full modern lexical survey.
[TH-GAM] Joseph H. Thayer, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, entry gamizō; Bible Hub reproduction
Only the reproduced Thayer entry read for the stated lexical note; surrounding modern topical commentary not used. The gamizō entry appears under 1060a on the gameō page.
Published historical lexicographic entry in online reproduction; not a full modern lexical survey.
[CLEM-1COR] Clement of Rome, Letter to the Corinthians; John Keith translation, Ante-Nicene Fathers 9 (1896)
Chapters 37–38, 47 and 49 directly read for the four attributed notes.
Published English translation as reproduced by New Advent; exact cited passages checked, original-language patristic text not collated.
[IREN-5.2] Irenaeus, Against Heresies 5.2; Alexander Roberts and William Rambaut translation, Ante-Nicene Fathers 1 (1885)
Sections 1–3 directly read; notes use sections 2–3.
Published English translation as reproduced by New Advent; exact cited passages checked, original-language patristic text not collated.
[CHR-1COR-27] John Chrysostom, Homily 27 on First Corinthians; Talbot W. Chambers translation, NPNF First Series 12 (1889)
Sections 3–6 directly read; notes use sections 4–6 on 11:22–26.
Published English translation as reproduced by New Advent; exact cited passages checked, original-language patristic text not collated.
[CHR-1COR-32] John Chrysostom, Homily 32 on First Corinthians; Talbot W. Chambers translation, NPNF First Series 12 (1889)
Section 5 and sections 8–10 directly read for the two attributed notes.
Published English translation as reproduced by New Advent; exact cited passages checked, original-language patristic text not collated.
[CHR-1COR-33] John Chrysostom, Homily 33 on First Corinthians; Talbot W. Chambers translation, NPNF First Series 12 (1889)
Section 1 directly read on 13:4–5; note uses the pairing of patience and kindness.
Published English translation as reproduced by New Advent; exact cited passages checked, original-language patristic text not collated.
[CHR-1COR-41] John Chrysostom, Homily 41 on First Corinthians; Talbot W. Chambers translation, NPNF First Series 12 (1889)
Sections 5–6 directly read on 15:42–46; notes use 15:42, 44 and 45.
Published English translation as reproduced by New Advent; exact cited passages checked, original-language patristic text not collated.
Translation and editorial decisions
Independent English translation after direct chapter-by-chapter Greek reading; no modern English running base.
Single Greek source: no Hebrew counterpart invented. Reference, English translation, and textual/reception notes form the three columns; comparison classifications do not apply.
Clear divine personal pronouns capitalized following the project guide.
Every one of the 437 numbered main-text entries was read in Greek before independent translation. Source order, chapter counts and nonempty translation coverage were audited; no conventional verse is omitted or double-bracketed in this selected file.
The complete electronic edition-comparison apparatus was read at its 220 verse locations. Fifty substantive selections are cited with its own labels (WH, Treg, NA28, RP, NIV, Holmes, em). Those labels report the electronic file and do not imply independent consultation of the named editions or manuscript witnesses.
Fifteen Saints notes draw on exactly cited published English passages from Clement, Irenaeus and Chrysostom. They summarize historical reception, not new translations of patristic Greek or claims of exhaustive agreement. Differences between patristic quotations and the selected biblical base are identified when material.
Historical lexical notes at 6:9 and 7:36–38 use only the directly read Thayer entries identified in the source register; surrounding modern topical commentary was not used as evidence.
An independent AI reader checked only 6:5, 6:9, 6:11; 7:14, 7:15, 7:21, 7:34, 7:36–38; and 11:3, 11:10, 11:16 against the saved Greek. No clear substantive error was found; 6:11 received an agency clarification. This is not whole-book review or a qualified human review.
Greek punctuation and difficult constructions guide the rendering, but editorial pericope headings and ordinary English sentence punctuation are aids, not additional biblical wording. Possible Corinthian slogans are not assigned speakers without a textual basis.
The Greek source is The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition, Michael W. Holmes, ed., copyright 2010 Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software. The publisher repository licenses it under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. This English translation and its editorial notes are new adaptations; source wording and apparatus are not represented as unchanged English text.
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Recurring terms
ekklēsia — Church / gathering
The corporate community is explicit; temple language in 3:16 addresses plural recipients as one temple.
hagiazō / hagios — sanctify / holy, saints
Retains consecration language in 1:2, 6:11 and 7:14 without replacing it with modern marital legitimacy.
logos — word / message / account
Context governs the rendering; 2:4 does not add a words noun absent from the selected Greek.
psychikos / pneumatikos — natural / spiritual
Used for persons in 2:14–15 and bodies in 15:44. Spiritual does not itself mean bodiless.
sarkinos / sarkikos — of flesh / fleshly
Distinction retained at 3:1 and 3:3 rather than collapsed without notice.
anakrinō — examine / discern
Context distinguishes discernment and examination from final judicial condemnation.
porneia — sexual immorality
An ancient sexual-ethical category; individual cases and scope are not silently replaced by a modern identity label.
malakoi — effeminate men
At 6:9, the historically loaded literal characterization is retained; the note identifies the sexual sense in the consulted Thayer entry without claiming a complete lexical survey.
arsenokoitai — men who bed males
At 6:9, the rendering makes the male/bed elements visible. It does not equate the term with a modern orientation category.
apolouomai — wash oneself clean
The middle at 6:11 also permits had yourselves washed; morphology alone does not settle agency.
parthenos / gamizō — virgin / give in marriage
The guardian reading governs 7:36–38, with the betrothed interpretation disclosed. Daughter is not inserted into the source.
hyperakmos — past her prime
At 7:36 the adopted female reference follows the consulted historical lexical entry; the alternative reference to a man’s strong passions is disclosed.
doulos / apeleutheros — slave / freed person
Legal and social status terms remain visible, especially in 7:21–23; modern employment is not substituted.
syneidēsis — conscience
The weak conscience and the informed conscience remain distinct participants in chapters 8–10.
exousia — authority / right
Context-sensitive; authority on her head in 11:10 does not acquire an added sign of submission.
koinōnia — participation
At 10:16 preserves participation in blood and body; reception is attributed separately.
charisma / pneumatika — gift / spiritual things
The latter does not explicitly contain gifts in 12:1; the note keeps this grammatical distinction visible.
agapē — love
Ethical actions in chapter 13 explain its scope; no particular modern affective definition is imported.
oikodomeō — build up
The architectural metaphor includes the irony of building up a weak conscience toward idolatrous eating at 8:10.
glōssa / diermēneuō — tongue / interpret
The source distinguishes speaking and interpretation without supplying an unattested language for every instance.
idiōtēs — uninitiated person
At 14:16, 23–24 denotes the outsider to the relevant understanding or practice; it is not the modern insult idiot.
anastasis / egeirō — resurrection / raise
Distinguishes the resurrection event and the raising verb; perfect forms can retain has been raised.
aparchē — firstfruits
Harvest image in 15:20, 23 retains both Christ’s priority and the connection with those who follow.
eikōn — image
Retained in 11:7 and 15:49 without adding a denial of women’s divine-image status.
phthora / aphtharsia — corruption / incorruption
Bodily mortality and transformation in chapter 15 remain explicit.
Marana tha — Our Lord, come!
Follows the selected two-word segmentation at 16:22, with the apparatus comparison disclosed.
Review and outstanding questions
Qualified independent Greek review remains outstanding, especially 2:4, 2:13; 6:5, 6:9, 6:11; 7:14–15, 7:21, 7:34–38; 11:3–16; 13:3; 14:33–38; and 15:25–29.
The identity of the virgin and the agency in 7:36–38, the head-covering argument and angels in chapter 11, the relationship between women’s prayer and prophecy in 11:5 and silence in 14:34–35, and baptism for the dead in 15:29 require further historical and exegetical review. The translation preserves these tensions.
Textual notes are selected from an edition-comparison file, not an exhaustive manuscript collation. Patristic reception is selective and mediated through the named published English translations.
Collation against Nestle–Aland 28
On 13 September 2026 every verse of this book where the SBLGNT and NA28 differ was identified from the edition marks of Tyndale House's Translators Amalgamated Greek New Testament (STEPBible, CC BY 4.0) and the SBLGNT apparatus, and the rendering above was read at each one. 28 verses differ; 18 of them would read differently in English if NA28 were translated instead of the SBLGNT, and each of those carries a note above beginning "NA28". The collation is against TAGNT's edition marks and the SBLGNT apparatus; a printed NA28 apparatus has not been consulted, and NA28's square brackets are inferred, not recorded.
At 1 place the rendering follows a reading other than the SBLGNT it declares: 15:28 (NA28). Each is marked in its note.