Random Verse from 1 Corinthians

1 Corinthians is a letter from the apostle Paul to the church he planted in Corinth, a busy Greek port city known for wealth and rough living. He wrote it around AD 55 to answer the church's questions and to address real problems in the congregation.

The Corinthians were struggling with division, lawsuits, food debates, disorder in worship, and confusion about marriage and the resurrection. Paul takes each issue in turn, always pointing back to Jesus and to love as the measure of everything.

That is why this book contains the most famous chapter on love ever written. 1 Corinthians 13 is read at weddings around the world, and its picture of what love does and refuses to do still holds up in any relationship.

Other treasured passages describe the body as a temple of the Holy Spirit, promise God's faithfulness in temptation, and lay out the resurrection hope that anchors the Christian faith in chapter 15.

A random verse from 1 Corinthians tends to be practical. This is a book about real community life, with all its friction, so its verses speak to conflict, patience, self-control, and doing everything in love.

People come to this book for wedding readings, for guidance in messy relationships, and for encouragement to keep serving when the work feels unnoticed. The closing chapters hold some of the most quotable one-line encouragements in the New Testament.

Spin the picker above to pull a verse from any of its sixteen chapters. You may get soaring lines about love, or you may get a blunt piece of pastoral advice. Both are very much the point of this letter.