While the Apostle Paul is teaching and preaching in Ephesus (a city in which is now modern Turkey) during his third missionary journey, visitors arrive from the church at Corinth, a church he had planted in Greece some three years before. One group of the visitors reports disturbing news of factions, immorality, and lawsuits within the body of believers. Another group comes with difficult questions concerning marriage, divorce, eating food offered to idols, matters of public worship, and the resurrection of the body. Using his God-given power and authority as an apostle – one sent by God as a spokesman – Paul writes this first of two letters to believers in Corinth to firmly address their deplorable conduct and answer their questions.

Chapters 4 - 11 The Problems in the Church