Drawing attention to the cultural and legal situation of Corinth, and to features of Greek grammar, this essay argues that in 1 Corinthians 6:4 Paul calls for the "despised" Christians in Corinth to be arbiters if lawsuits arise.

Kinman wants to reconsider the exegesis of Luke 12:57-59. He provides reasons to question the consensus interpretation. His reasons are based on three factors that he considers: the literary setting of the passage in its context, the phenomenon of debt in Hellenistic law, and the language of the passage itself.