1 Corinthians 16 Footnotes
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Paul’s curse on those who do not “love the Lord [Jesus]” (v. 22) picks up from 8:6, where Paul Christologically reconstructed the Shema (“Listen, Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God … ” Dt 6:4-6). With Jesus’s resurrection and exaltation, the apostles, though Jews, now understood that the Lord Jesus is to be identified with Yahweh, the Lord, the God of Israel—something the Corinthian believers had been taught and indeed had publicly confessed at baptism (12:3,13). To reject that conviction now would bring God’s severe condemnation. Paul was not speaking here about the generality of unbelievers but about disbelieving church members.