Chapter ten approaches Paul’s discussion of freedoms from a different perspective. To this point it has been about not flaunting legitimate freedoms. In this chapter, Paul speaks of extending freedoms to areas in which we are not free. Using the Jewish Exodus generation as an example, Paul showed they had experienced all of God’s blessings […]
Chapter nine continues the teaching on Christian freedom, expanding out from the initial question about food dedicated to idols. In order to expound on that more, Paul demonstrated how he treated others. There should have been no question as to whether or not Paul was an apostle, which meant he should have full access to
Chapter eight started a new broad topic with several different parts: freedoms available to believers. The Corinthians’ first question had to do with meat that had been sacrificed to idols in the pagan temples. However, before answering that, Paul made a quick detour. When seeing someone else do something we think is wrong or questionable,
