... or show him respect. Only when the Palace colleagues of his poisoned his mind in this regard he started noticing it (Esth 3:1-5)! And then he went about hatching a plot to finish him off. It all started with a seemingly innocent remark by his Palace buddies, "Hey, did you notice that the Jewish fellow at Palace gate does not bow down before you ... God" (I Cor 15:33-34). One version puts it this way, "Don't let yourself be poisoned by this anti-resurrection loose talk." What Paul was teaching the Corinthians was in line with a contemporary proverb that goes, "If you sleep with dogs you ...

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