Contaminated and confused! That was the church at Corinth. Their problems (chapters 1–6) arose from their contamination with the world. Their questions (chapters 7–16) arose from their confusion about certain aspects of Christian truth. As we saw in the previous chapter, even Paul’s words of greeting seem to be not a mere empty formality, but calculated to go immediately to the solution of their problems. He reminded them of his calling to be
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