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1 Corinthians: Holiness and Hope of a Rescued People is unavailable, but you can change that!

First Corinthians is Paul’s masterly pastoral letter to a church, which he founded five years earlier, but which in the meantime has lost its way. In Ephesus, Paul was visited by various groups from Corinth bringing disturbing reports of recent developments, but also a list of questions. A little sleuthing helps us recover an idea of the problems in Corinth as well as the questions to which they...

including ‘holy’, ‘holy ones’ and ‘holiness’. Indeed, it is not too much to say that these words reach the heart of the letter, namely, the imputed as well as practical ‘holiness’ of the people of God in Christ (see on 1:30; cf. 1:2). The root idea of ‘holiness’ is two-sided. It is to be like God in his purity and love and unlike fellow humans in their wilfulness and sin. Paul’s words, ‘the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife’ and vice versa probably do not mean that the unbeliever somehow
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