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Second Corinthians plunges the modern reader back to the real, tumultuous of early Christianity. The simple ideals of sharing and goodwill described in Acts 2:42-47 seem to have little place among the diverse converts from this boomtown of Corinth where Paul chooses to anchor his Greek mission. Second Corinthians is in part a letter of joy, for a report came to Paul that the Corinthians had...

relationship to the immediate context. Structurally, this command is balanced by the exhortation for holiness which rounds out the unit, the two of them compressing the rest together.25 Everything in between buttresses as support for the nonnegotiability of this biblical demand, both from the side of the new covenant and the old. The command negates a present tense verb in Greek (γίνεσθε, ginesthe), which means that Paul is demanding that the Corinthians stop behavior that is currently in full
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