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Thank you We sneak shmoop in the bible first and

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second corinthians it's easily to shmoop here coming at you

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with two books rolled into one reason i'm putting one

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in two corinthians together is that they both consist of

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letters to the corinthians written by the apostle paul that

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and the missus won't gets angry if i talk over

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jeopardy so let's keep this short one corinthians consists of

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a single letter that paul wrote and you know a

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bunch of letters he wrote around it He starts off

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by buttering up the corinthians with praise saying how grateful

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he is toe have them in the fold Then he

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brings down the hammer classic good paul bad paul Some

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of the corinthians have been saying they follow the teachings

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of paul while some are saying they follow the teachings

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of other leaders and paul's like whoa guys that's super

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flattering but it's all jesus teaching not mine or anyone

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else's while also reminds them that their bodies air temples

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to god so they shouldn't be destroying them Presumably the

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corinthians were like how would we destroy them and paul's

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like by being a moral than having sex outside of

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marriage and the corinthians air like i gotta cancel some

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of my weekend plans Well paul goes on to say

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that not having sex is the best way to do

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things but if they can't manage to abstain they should

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probably just kid married paul Such a romantic work for

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jake and self proclaimed relationship expert paul has even more

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advice this time for virgins he's like a virgin's thinking

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about getting married Well think again if you're not married

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and don't do the nasty god's going to smile upon

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you and the virgins were like that's huge and paul's

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like pretty much he's got a nice smile though i've

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heard he uses crest whitestrips Anyway paul is basically just

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like seriously stay single guys you're way more blessed if

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you don't get married and all the women reading this

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muttered commitment issues typical dude Well paul then begins to

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tell the corinthians that as an apostle he is entitled

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to monetary support from his fellow christians But it's paul

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going to collect on what's owed to him Of course

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not ball chose this life and he's not going to

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take their money because a much greater prize awaits in

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heaven yet a free box of crest whitestrips What God

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got over excited when they first came out So he

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bought a lot of them Anyway Paul also addresses communion

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It was a long letter Seriously this dude kept ye

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oldie hallmark in business So apparently the rich were giving

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themselves a big meal in the poor We're getting like

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a handful of skittles and half a twinkie Paul's not

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okay with that He tells them to straighten up before

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they run straight into fire and brimstone corinthians air like

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okay So what Eminem's and a ding dong then anyway

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after a little more instruction in some light chastisement paul

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ends the letter nicely probably with like you know a

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bunch of exes and oh's Well moving on to two

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corinthians which has broken up into two letters from paul

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Don't worry though we're going to zip through this if

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there's one thing worse than talking through jeopardy it's talking

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through wheel of fortune So paul begins by apologizing for

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not visiting like he said he would he's running on

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god's time not the corinthians which coincidentally is the excuse

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i use whenever i'm late for dinner but no one

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can argue with a watch that god's time but paul

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also says he didn't come because he didn't want to

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have another painful visit Apparently an unnamed brother called out

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paul and the corinthian sided with the new guy but

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paul's happy now mostly because he blasted adele and sobbed

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into his ben and jerry's until the pain was gone

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We've all been there pole but also because he's heard

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the corinthians ended kicking the guy out of the church

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Well paul goes on to tell the corinthians just how

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mighty god is and why they should place their trust

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in him I'll also lays out some of his credentials

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he's not trying to be bragging or anything He just

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wants to make sure they know he was the lead

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in his high school's production of grease is the word

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that you heard okay well that's not exactly true Instead

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of his accomplishment paul talks about all the hardships he's

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endured for god paul the original humble bragger paul ends

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the letter on a pledge drive asking the corinthians to

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raise money for the christians in jerusalem and for just

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two dollars a month they can make sure they don't

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Feel guilty every time they hear that darn sarah mclachlan

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song in the arms off the angel fly away from

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here that's the country version the second letter begins hand

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boy it's a doozy Paul is heated Apparently people have

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been saying he's more impressive in letters than in person

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to prove that's totally not true paul's like i can't

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believe they think that i'll show them all Write a

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strongly worded letter which the corinthians air like dude do

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usually and it seems that there are some fake apostles

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in the corinth who are throwing shade paul's way i

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was having none of it He reminds them of some

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of his trials even though he doesn't like talking about

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himself Just god Well you can probably read all about

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that in another letter Seriously check out the price of

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hallmark stock back then way Hope they wrote paul a

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thank you card before they went bankrupt Well paul it's

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the corinthians know that he's coming back for a visit

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soon and everyone started frantically selling their home our chairs

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He says he'll deal with thes centers and naysayers when

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he arrived but he hopes the corinthians will see the

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error of their ways He ends the letter with wishes

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for peace hopes that they can patch things up and

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be cool again And of course you know he ends

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it with somewhere exes and us So to sum it

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all up paul's a nice guy is super into making

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sure people aren't immoral and he's one heck of a

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letter writer and spoiler alert We'll see more from him

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and later books until then for four hundred dollars I'm

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the host of bible web siri's who will probably be

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in the doghouse tonight Yeah who is cecil b de

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shmoop At least i didn't talk through wheel of fortune 00:05:40.728 --> [endTime] Yeah

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