fellow Jew in the community of believers in Corinth might have heard that. It is difficult for us who live in a much different culture, and at a much later time, even to come close to feeling or understanding what a total bombshell such an off-the-cuff statement like that would have been to its original recipients. At the same time, a believer some twenty centuries later needs also to hear what Paul’s own context makes quite clear—that salvation based on faith in Christ Jesus assumes also that the