Paul for Everyone Quotes

“16Don’t you see? You are God’s Temple! God’s spirit lives in you! 17If anyone destroys God’s Temple, God will destroy them. God’s Temple is holy, you see, and that is precisely what you are.”
― Tom Wright, Paul for Everyone: 1 Corinthians

“All the much-boasted ‘freedom’ and ‘rights’ that some in Corinth were so keen on must give way before the needs of the work of the gospel. This will mean that many things the body wants to do, has a right (in theory) to do, and is ‘free’ to do, must be denied. This message, we may well imagine, was about as popular in Corinth as it is today, that is, not popular at all. Western culture still tells its own story as the story of developing freedoms, and any attempt to speak of discipline, self-denial or the necessary abandonment of ‘rights’ is shouted down as a return to ‘the dark ages’ or ‘the Middle Ages’ (not that those doing the shouting often have much idea what those periods of history were actually like).”
― Tom Wright, Paul for Everyone: 1 Corinthians