Although it has the same scope as the letter to the Romans, theological first letter to the Corinthians is often overshadowed by the later letter of Paul. Much of what Paul writes here seems too situational to tell us anything today. The present commentary shows how Paul, in this letter, too, which deals with problems in the church in Corinth, the background of which we often only partially understand, formulates his answers from the center of the Gospel. By placing the plethora of challenges that arise in the young Corinthian church in the field of tension between the lasting meaning of the...