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This compact commentary on 1 Corinthians is both readable and full of insights that will engage students, ministers, and scholars alike. The Apostle Paul writes to a relatively new church in which members are failing to maintain solidarity with other members. They struggle to find their unique place in Roman society as Gentile followers of Jewish leaders that proclaim Christ as Lord. Their many...

body of Christ (see 12:13; cf. Rom 8:9). Paul’s response that no one can say Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit assumes that conversion is at stake. The confession is public, declaring before other witnesses one’s absolute allegiance is to Jesus’s lordship—it sets oneself apart from non-Christian Jews, for whom these words would sound blasphemous, and non-Christian Gentiles, who might find the claim subversive to Caesar.110 In such milieu this confession has far more meaning than a charlatan
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