1 Corinthians

This letter was a reply to specific problems at the church in Corinth. The apostle Paul had previously written a letter to the church addressing sexual immorality (see 1 Cor. 5:9). It appears that Paul received, perhaps, an oral report about the church having misunderstood his first letter (5:10). The letter that we know as 1 Corinthians was written to correct those misunderstandings, and also to deal with further problems of division, doctrinal confusion, and social snobbery (1:10; 5:1; 11:18).