Epistles to the Corinthians

Epistles to the Corinthians

There are two Epistles to the Corinthians in the Bible:

There is also a Third Epistle to the Corinthians, once considered canonical by the Armenian Apostolic Church, but now almost universally believed to be pseudepigraphical.



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