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The First Letter to the Corinthians is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

This famous “love chapter” is certainly one of the most well-known chapters in the entire Bible, and probably the best-known passage in Paul’s letters. This, of course, is due in large part to the fact that many Christian weddings include a reading from this passage. Given that particular exposure, many Christians assume the chapter is primarily about love between a man and a woman—that it was written to provide guidance and
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