translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET study note

text: Made rich refers to how God richly blessed the Corinthians with an abundance of spiritual gifts (cf. v. 7 ).


text: Speech and knowledge refer to the spiritual gifts God had blessed them with (as v. 7 confirms). Paul will discuss certain abuses of their gifts in chapters 12-14 , but he thanks God for their giftedness.


text: The revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ refers to the Lord’s return, when he will be revealed (cf. the reference to the day of our Lord Jesus Christ in v. 8 ).


text: A quotation from Isa 29:14 .


text: A quotation from Jer 9:24 . The themes of have influenced Paul’s presentation in vv. 26-31 . Jeremiah calls upon the wise, the strong, and the wealthy not to trust in their resources but in their knowledge of the true God – and so to boast in the Lord . Paul addresses the same three areas of human pride.