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Although separated by nearly two thousand years of history, there are many similarities between the church in Corinth and the world of today. The Corinthian church was riveted by factions that threatened to tear it apart. Paul had to handle strong differences of opinion among the Christians on such topics as marriage, lawsuits, meat sacrificed to idols, worship, and Christian doctrine. Similarly,...

THUS FAR IT might seem that Paul has little positive to say about “wisdom,” introduced in 1:24. This section corrects this impression but clarifies that beneficial wisdom must be compatible with the truths of Christianity. He develops this point by contrasting two different pairs of people: Christians versus non-Christians (2:6–16) and spiritual Christians versus worldly Christians (3:1–23). There is a wisdom that all Christians have by the mere fact that they have the Spirit living in them, but
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