02184nam a2200145Ia 4500008004100000020002800041041000800069050002500077100001900102245005700121260005900178300003500237505172300272650004301995230916s9999    xx            000 0 und d  a97806642279130664227910  aeng  aBS2675.2 b.W75 2004  aWright, N. T.  0aPaul for Everyone : b1 Corinthians /cN. T. Wright   aLouisville, KY : bWestminster John Knox Press, c2004  axii, 256 p. : bmap ; c19 cm.  aThankful for God's grace -- Beware of divisions! -- God's folly -- Boasting in the Lord -- The powerful message of the cross -- God's strange wisdom -- Spiritual or merely human? -- God's farm, God's building -- The coming day, the coming fire -- Everything belongs to you -- Judgment then rather than now -- Apostles on display -- Puffed up or powerful? -- Scandal and judgment -- Get rid of the 'leaven'! -- Lawsuits in the church -- Inheriting God's kingdom or not -- What is the body for? -- Life within marriage -- Marriage and divorce -- Stay the way you were called -- On remaining unmarried -- Divided loyalties -- Meat offered to idols -- Respecting weak consciences -- The 'rights' of an apostle -- Giving up rights for the gospel -- The apostle's freedom to be enslaved to everyone -- The Christian athlete -- The first exodus -- Don't make the same mistake again! -- The table of the Lord and the table of demons -- Do everything to God's glory -- Male and female in the worshipping church -- Rich and poor at the table of the Lord -- Recognizing the body -- The same spirit at work -- Many members, one body -- The responsibilities of each member -- Gifts and ministries -- The need for love and the character of love -- Love: the bridge to God's future -- Priorities in worship -- Speaking clearly in church -- Praying with mind as well as spirit -- Signs for believers and unbelievers -- Final instructions for worship -- The gospel of the Messiah, crucified, buried and risen -- Resurrection gives meaning to present Christian living -- The transformed resurrection body -- The mystery and the victory -- The collection and Paul's plans -- Timothy and Apollos -- The love that stitches it all together.  aBible. Corinthians, 1st--Commentaries.