The printed edition this companion is based on
This study companion is keyed to a specific printed edition of Wiersbe’s commentary, whose title page and copyright page read as follows:
- Title: Be Wise — Discern the Difference Between Man’s Knowledge and God’s Wisdom: NT Commentary, 1 Corinthians (The BE Series Commentary)
- Author: Warren W. Wiersbe · Foreword by Ken Baugh
- Publisher: David C. Cook, Colorado Springs, Colorado
- First edition: 1982 · This printing: © Warren W. Wiersbe
- ISBN 978-1-4347-6636-6
Copyright
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Because of this, UECF.NET does not publish Wiersbe’s text on this site. What you are reading in this web book is an original UECF.NET study companion: for each of the thirteen chapters, we provide the heading Scripture printed in the book (quoted here from the public-domain King James Version), and our own original summary, key points, a description of a few of Wiersbe’s illustrations, a couple of short cited quotations, and discussion questions written for this companion. None of the summarising prose on these pages is Wiersbe’s own wording — it is UECF.NET’s paraphrase and analysis, written for this study companion, and should not be quoted as though it were a quotation from the book itself. Readers who want Wiersbe’s actual words should read the book, which remains widely available from booksellers and libraries.
How this web edition was produced
UECF.NET was supplied with a scanned PDF copy of the printed edition described above. Our team read the book in full — its front matter and all thirteen chapters — to identify its chapter structure, its Scripture references, and the main line of Wiersbe’s argument in each chapter. That structural information (titles, Scripture references, and the KJV Scripture headings) is factual and is presented accurately here. The explanatory content built around it on every page — the “at a glance” notes, summaries, key points, illustration descriptions, and discussion questions — was then composed by UECF.NET specifically for this study companion.
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Scripture quotations
Scripture quoted on these pages is the King James Version (public domain). Wiersbe’s own prose discussion of these passages is not reproduced; only UECF.NET’s original discussion of them appears here.
About the author
Warren W. Wiersbe (1929–2019) served for many years as pastor of The Moody Church in Chicago and as general director of the Back to the Bible radio ministry. He wrote more than 150 books, including the widely used “BE” series of expository New Testament and Old Testament commentaries, of which Be Wise is a part.
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