The question of where to begin is not easily answered and never adequately justified. I choose to begin our inquiry with a consideration of the final few verses located at the end of the first chapter of 1 Corinthians. The text states in a clear and forthright manner a conclusion that the author seeks the reader to draw, ‘that no human being may boast in the presence of God’. That the critique of those who seek sacred advantage is the aim of much of Paul’s correspondence