The ancient city of Corinth was known for its prosperity, its diversity and its debauchery, and any church planted there was bound to have problems.

Snobbishness, divisiveness, insensitivity, doctrinal looseness and overexuberance were all too common in the Corinthian congregation, and when Paul heard of it he was grieved, having founded the church himself. David Prior expounds the letter in the Bible Speaks Today manner: exegesis, theology and application held together without technicality.