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1 Corinthians: An Introduction and Commentary (Schreiner) is unavailable, but you can change that!

The cosmopolitan city of Corinth was the site of one of the apostle Paul’s greatest evangelistic successes. However, the church he founded was full of contention, ranging from questions about leadership to incest. Some Christians were taking fellow believers to court. There were issues concerning marriage, celibacy, food offered to idols, public worship, and spiritual gifts. In response, Paul...

marriage or in one’s station in life is typical among those who are filled with a desire to advance in society (7:1–40). Paul reminds the Corinthians of eschatology (7:29–31); the way believers relate to everything in the world has changed now that Jesus Christ has come, for the end of the ages has come (10:11). We see the same worldly spirit in the desire to eat food offered to idols (8:1–11:1), which was universally condemned by Christians and Jews in the ancient world since it was considered to
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