some valid elements of the second. While evidence does exist to support the second view’s readings of the verbs in verses 21 and 33, these are not the common meaning of these words in Paul’s writings or elsewhere in the New Testament. Furthermore, Paul does use a slightly different word when he wants to emphasize “welcoming or receiving” others in fellowship (cf. Rom 15:7, proslambanō). In both views the problem is twofold. There has been an incursion of sinful secular social divisions into the