Only 6 percent of overall respondents say they don't feel it's important to give graduation gifts to anyone. Makecollegecount.com suggests a range of $20 to $50 from relatives of graduates and $15 to $50 from friends of the graduate's family and the graduate's friends.
Paulâs purposes for writing the Corinthians were several. His first purpose was to deal with several moral problems and the divisions that had formed as people had divided into fan-clubs and were proclaiming themselves followers of Paul, Apollos, Peter or Christ (1:10).
The letter was written c. 55 toward the close of Paul's three-year residency in Ephesus (see 16:5-9; Ac 20:31). It is clear from his reference to staying at Ephesus until Pentecost (16:8) that he intended to remain there somewhat less than a year when he wrote 1 Corinthians.