1. Gordon D. Fee, The First Epistle to the Corinthians (NICNT; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1987), 31; also n.17.
2. Though this is not to say, of course, that other churches do not suffer from divisions, quarrels, sexual immorality as the Corinthian church did.
3. C. K. Barrett, The First Epistle to the Corinthians, 2nd ed., (London: Adam & Charles Black, 1971), 33.
4. Leon Morris, The First Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians, TNTC; London: Tyndal Press, 1958), 27.