1 Corinthians 1:2

Paul addresses the Corinthians as God's church, already sanctified in Christ and called to be saints, together with all believers everywhere. Their identity is rooted in Christ, not their failures.

Cross-references · 39

• Rom 1:7to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
• 1 Cor 6:9–11Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
• 1 Cor 1:30Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
• Acts 26:18to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
• 1 Pet 1:15–16but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;
• Heb 13:12Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.
• 1 Th 4:7For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.
• 2 Cor 4:5For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake;
• Heb 10:10by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
• Phil 2:9–11Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name;
• Acts 9:14Here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name.”
• Rom 10:12For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.
• Acts 10:36The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ — he is Lord of all —
• Gen 12:8He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on Yahweh’s name.
• Acts 7:59–60They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”
• Rom 14:8–9For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.
• 2 Tim 1:9who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
• Acts 9:21All who heard him were amazed, and said, “Isn’t this he who in Jerusalem made havoc of those who called on this name? And he had come here intending to bring them bound before the chief priests!”
• 2 Th 2:16–17Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
• 1 Tim 3:15but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
• Ps 45:11So the king will desire your beauty, honor him, for he is your lord.
• Rom 3:22even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,
• 2 Cor 1:1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
• 1 Cor 8:6yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.
• Acts 18:8–11Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.
• Acts 15:9He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
• Gen 4:26A son was also born to Seth, and he named him Enosh. At that time men began to call on Yahweh’s name.
• Acts 18:1After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth.
• Eph 5:26that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
• John 17:17–19Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.
• 2 Tim 2:22Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
• 2 Th 1:1Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ:
• 1 Th 1:1Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Jude 1:1Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:
• Heb 2:11For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,
• Acts 22:16Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’
• Gen 13:4–13to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on Yahweh’s name.
• Rev 19:16He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”
• Gal 1:2and all the brothers who are with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:

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