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For Paul, Corinth is a test case: if the gospel of Christ can change lives there, it can do so anywhere. He sees in the Corinthian believers rich resources for Christian ministry and mission, and encourages them as a body to express the total lordship of Christ.

Holy Spirit (3). Whatever other spirits, divinities or demons they have previously encountered, the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit, is committed to proclaiming that Jesus is Lord. There is thorough discussion in the commentaries on the apparent impossibility of any Christian, even in the church at Corinth, descending to the allegedly-inspired cry Jesus be cursed! (anathema). Is Paul perhaps posing the opposite of the true Christian confession, Jesus is Lord, in order to remind the Corinthians of
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