Come and study Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast, The Whole Council of God.

Father Stephen is a former Protestant pastor and Bible teacher in the Reformed Church, but now an Orthodox priest,

serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

So we'll go ahead and get started when we get started.

In just a minute, we'll be picking up at the beginning of St. Paul's first epistle to the

Corinthians chapter 9 because of the holidays.

And I won't say which one.

So we'll see when this gets released on the

interwebs. Maybe it'll be a whole different holiday that it comes out right after. But,

because of the holidays, we missed a couple weeks. So, sort of get us caught, get us caught

back up. First Corinthians has been a little different in its, not really in its structure,

in the apportionment of its structure maybe than Romans was. When we went through Romans,

we talked about how the way St. Paul's epistles are structured in general

is that there's sort of a doctrinal section.

And then usually marked by the word therefore, there's then sort of a practical section where he applies all of the things he's just sort of laid out and gone over

uh theological so we saw that in uh his epistle to the romans uh that came at the beginning

of chapter 12 uh we've already sort of seen it in first corinthians the first corinthians that

therefore comes in chapter four so we've already kind of switched.

A lot of First Corinthians is focused on practical instruction.

And we've seen sort of a whole series of issues as we've gone through that St.

Paul's been dealing with.

We just got done with a big section where he was talking about

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