Paul's first letter to the church in Corinth is at once scathing rebuke and loving instruction. Corinth was a church in touble, and Paul's fatherly letter confronted them and called them back to obedience to Christ.

Run length: 55 minutes
Reader: Dale McConachie
Translation: New American Standard Bible®
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From Matthew Henry's Commentary:

"Some time after [Paul] left [the Corinthians] he wrote this epistle to them, to water what he had planted and rectify some gross disorders which during his absence had been introduced, partly from the interest some false teacher or teachers had obtained amongst them, and partly from the leaven of their old maxims and manners, that had not been thoroughly purged out by the Christian principles they had entertained. And it is but too visible how much their wealth had helped to corrupt their manners, from the several faults for which the apostle reprehends them. Pride, avarice, luxury, lust (the natural offspring of a carnal and corrupt mind), are all fed and prompted by outward affluence. And with all these either the body of this people or some particular persons among them are here charged by the apostle. Their pride discovered itself in their parties and factions, and the notorious disorders they committed in the exercise of their spiritual gifts."