Moving to the End

Love covers a multitude of sins: Verses 13 to 24 conclude the chapter and the letter with yet another admonition, greetings, and a benediction (blessings). It's the close out to a letter filled with so many things that it must have been read again and again by the Corinthians. So too, by people today. Believers want to know what that church was like and how Paul wanted it to function. Corinthian society, so close to much of the US materialistic world, deserves a lot of special attention. Many of their problems are our problems - yet as Wright p. 235) observes, it needs the love which "stitches" all the problems, all the churches, and all the people together.