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The epistles to the Corinthians were written to the young church in Corinth as it wrestled with the immoral environment surrounding it—and with that environment’s clash with the moral standards of Christianity. Divisions in the church became a problem, so Paul wrote 1 Corinthians as a response to the discord. In his letter, Paul addresses a wide range of issues faced by the Corinthian church,...

all its splendour. St Paul sings the praises of love as seen from three points of view—the superiority and absolute need of this gift (vv. 1–3); its features and practical expression (vv. 4–7); and the fact it endures for ever (vv. 8–13). Love, the charity of which St Paul is speaking, has nothing to do with selfish desire for physical passionate possession; nor is it restricted to mere philantrophy, whose motivation is purely humanitarian: charity is a love which is to be found in the new order
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