(7:2, 9). Paul’s appeal to Christ’s redemptive act, “You were bought with a price” (6:20), becomes a foundational appeal for appropriate behavior before the Lord and is repeated in 7:23. Even the appeal to the resurrection in 6:14 anticipates the lengthy discussion of the place of the body at the time of the resurrection in chapter 15. Thus, Paul writes a section that, although deeply practical for what is undoubtedly an actual problem in the community, seems to have a more didactic and theological