The culture of the Greco-Roman world and Corinth in particular put a high premium on status, and the rewards that came with it - honour, influence, power. Within a religious community too, people sought to advance their status with claims about belonging to this or that noted leader and factions were forming around heros such as Apollos, Cephas and himself. Apart from this, some were boasting they belonged directly to Christ imagining they had received …showed first 75 words of 833 total…

…showed last 75 words of 833 total…begins, and indeed has already begun to work. In his gracious favour and steadfastness, God decides to save those who believe in His son. Believers are the called of God, recipients of what God has chosen to reveal, and that revelation is the Cross. The real status of the Corinthians is that they are rooted in God, not in the world. It is not that His wisdom belongs to them, rather they belong to Him.