ESV Reformation Study Bible – 1 Cor 1:5
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1 Cor 1:5

1:5 in every way you were enriched. The Corinthians were tempted to become puffed up by their gifts of “knowledge” and of speaking “in tongues” (8:1; 14:23). Paul needs to rebuke them for their moral weakness and abuse of those gifts, but he does not deny or minimize the blessings they have received (v. 7).