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

The cosmopolitan city of Corinth was the site of one of Paul’s greatest evangelistic successes. Yet despite Paul’s having founded the church there, it was full of contention and strife. Dissension ran the gamut from questions about leadership to incest. Some believers were taking fellow Christians to court. There were questions about marriage, celibacy, food offered to idols, public worship and...

1:6). Preaching the gospel is not delivering edifying discourses, beautifully put together. It is bearing witness to what God has done in Christ for our salvation. 2. As was his custom (cf. Gal. 3:1), Paul excluded not only from his preaching, but even from his knowledge, everything but that great central truth. He resolved to know among them nothing … except Jesus Christ (the power and the wisdom of God, 1:24) and him crucified. The crucifixion is at the heart of the gospel (for the force of the
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