1) What were Corinth and the church of God in Corinth like? (2) Who was Paul and what were his aims in writing to the Corinthians? And (3) how then should we read 1 Corinthians?
Roy E. Ciampa; Brian S. Rosner
Aim at heaven you will get earth “thrown in”: aim at earth and you get neither.
—C.S. Lewis, Christian Behavior
