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This careful, sometimes innovative, mid-level commentary touches on an astonishingly wide swath of important, sensitive issues—theological and pastoral—that have urgent resonances in twenty-first century life. Roy Ciampa and Brian Rosner reveal how 1 Corinthians directly addresses the claims of unity and truth, church discipline, sexual matters, the Lord’s Supper, the nature of love, Christian...

Paul deals with commendable and condemnable ways in which the Corinthians are relating to traditions Paul passed on to them. In chapters 12–14, he will focus on issues related to spiritual gifts and their use in the Christian worship gathering. In 11:2–16 creation traditions (original creation and new creation traditions) will be in the foreground as Paul explains the ways in which men and women are to worship together in this new community. In 11:17–34 traditions relating to the first exodus and
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