Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: Understanding and Interpreting Biblical Texts
1. Is God Wrathful?--Romans 1:18
2. One Man?s Sin Means My Death?--Romans 5:12
3. Increasing Sin--Romans 5:20
4. Dead to Sin--Romans 6:2, 7
5. A Slave to Sin--Romans 7:14, 19
6. All Things for Good--Romans 8:28
7. Is God Unjust?--Romans 9:13-15
8. The End of the Law--Romans 10:4
9. Israel?s Salvation--Romans 11:26
10. God Has Bound All to Disobedience--Romans 11:32
11. Heaping Burning Coals--Romans 12:20
12. Submitting to Government--Romans 13:1
13. Eating that Destroys--Romans 14:15
14. Destroying God?s Temple--1 Corinthians 3:17
15. Handing Over to Satan--1 Corinthians 5:5
16. Who Inherits the Kingdom?--1 Corinthians 6:9-10
17. Is It Good to Marry?--1 Corinthians 7:1
18. Not I, but the Lord--1 Corinthians 7:10, 12
19. Remain Where You Are--1 Corinthians 7:20
20. Live As Though You Had No Spouse--1 Corinthians 7:29
21. Many Gods and Lords--1 Corinthians 8:5-6
22. Headship?--1 Corinthians 11:3
23. The Glory of Man--1 Corinthians 11:7
24. Because of the Angels--1 Corinthians 11:10
25. Discerning the Body--1 Corinthians 11:29
26. Should We All Speak in Tongues?--1 Corinthians 14:5
27. Silence in the Churches--1 Corinthians14:33-34
28. Baptism for the Dead--1 Corinthians 15:29
29. A Veil over Their Minds--2 Corinthians 3:14
30. All the Old Has Gone?--2 Corinthians 5:17
31. Yoked with Unbelievers--2 Corinthians 6:14
32. Condemning Opponents--Galatians 1:9
33. Christ of No Value--Galatians 5:2
34. The Israel of God--Galatians 6:16
35. Ascending and Descending--Ephesians 4:9-10
36. Wives, Submit--Ephesians 5:22
37. Work Out Your Salvation--Philippians 2:12-13
38. Faultless before the Law--Philippians 3:4-6
39. The Firstborn over Creation--Colossians 1:15
40. What Is Lacking in Christ?s Afflictions--Colossians 1:24
41. Anti-Semitic?--1 Thessalonians 2:14-15
42. The Man of Lawlessness--2 Thessalonians 2:3
43. The One Who Holds Back Lawlessness--2 Thessalonians 2:7
44. No Women Teachers--1 Timothy 2:11-12
45. Salvation through Childbirth--1 Timothy 2:13-15
46. Worse Than an Unbeliever--1 Timothy 5:8
47. Wine for the Stomach--1 Timothy 5:23
48. Cretans Are Always Liars--Titus 1:12-13
Scripture Index

About the Author

Manfred T. Brauch (Ph.D., McMaster University) is retired professor of biblical theology and past president of Palmer Theological Seminary of Eastern University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Set Free to Be: A Study in Romans, and Hard Sayings of Paul, and a contributor to Hard Sayings of the Bible. Since 2004, Brauch and his wife have done long-term volunteer work in medical missions and theological education in Chile, Russia and Cameroon, West Africa.