Kay

gengwall,
I am glad that you noted for Jim the importance of the context and the original audience or recipients of Paul’s letters.

Jim,
A clear example of this is found in 1 Cor. 5:1-2: “It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, that someone has his father’s wife. You have become arrogant and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst.”

While this one is obvious, bear in mind that we don’t know ALL the background or every person each of the letters targeted.