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Corinth was a crossroads for commerce and travel, and a city of wealth and pleasure. It became a cosmopolitan melting pot of tourists, traders, and settlers from far-flung reaches of the empire. Paul worked in Corinth, preached in the synagogue, and was instrumental in the founding of the Corinthian church. Yet the church in Corinth was riddled with problems. In this epistle, Paul was forced to...

“that perish” and those “which are saved.” Men and women are now in either a lost or saved standing before God.29 Their spiritual position determines their evaluation of the cross. The perishing group views the fact and significance of Christ’s death as silly or absurd. The English word “moron” is based upon the Greek word for “foolishness” (mōria). Note the order here. The unsaved are not perishing because they regard the cross to be foolishness; rather, they treat it with mental disgust because
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