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The long-awaited commentary by Dieter Lührmann is now available to English-speaking audiences for the first time. It is a profound, succinctly written dialogue with the text that carefully follow the main points of Paul’s arguments in his most controversial letter. The author presents a theological interpretation which takes seriously Paul’s claim about the Gospel and also provides a distinctive...

things will not inherit the kingdom of God. Paul also speaks of the “kingdom of God,” the central theme of Jesus’ proclamation, in 1 Cor. 4:20*; 6:9–10*; 15:50*; Rom. 14:17*, and in those places, as here, lists wrong ways of behaving, mostly in negatively formulated sentences only. In the Jewish tradition also, exclusionary formulas like these belong to such catalogs. There the “kingdom of God” is the eschatological world in which God’s righteousness will clearly be the order of the world, which
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