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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...

abuse one another or to chatter or to indict or accuse …’8 We note that Paul accuses the Corinthians of creating ‘schisms’ (schismata—1:10; 11:18; 12:25), chattering (14:26–40) and ‘indicting and accusing’! These and other examples from the period cast light on much of this letter and indicate that Paul was sensitive to a church developing a bad reputation. Many of Paul’s concerns found in First Corinthians arise from his awareness that the behaviour of the Corinthians may have fallen below the standards
Pages 15–16
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