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Paul’s Letters to a Troubled Church: I and II Corinthians is unavailable, but you can change that!

In these letters one sees the heart of pastor Paul and the practical-oriented, doctrinal mind of the Apostle to the Gentiles. These letters are a treasure of applied truth. Paul loved and worked with a factious, prideful, rebellious Gentile church, affected by Jewish false teachers.

© “and know all mysteries and all knowledge” Paul uses this in 4:1 for gospel truths and in 15:51 for the specific truths about the resurrection body. In this context this phrase seems to refer to knowledge in its every form, which the believers at Corinth were prizing and seeking. Even perfect knowledge without love is not from God. See Special Topic: The Mystery at 2:1. © “all faith” This refers to miracle-working faith (cf. 12:9, 28; Matt. 17:20; 21:21), but notice in Matt. 7:21–23 that miracle-working
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