thian church, as well as on Paul's reply to the situation at Corinth; it would enable us to see a bit more of the way in which sayings of Jesus were collected and used in the early church; and from the point of view of the synoptic problem, it might furnish some evidence for the existence of Q independent of the synoptic tradition itself. In view of the importance of the problem it seems worthwhile to consider the question in some detail. I start, therefore, by summarizing the case for the existence of a link between Q and 1 Corinthians, and shall then proceed to examine it in detail. The case for a connection between Q and 1 Corinthians rests partly on the existence of common general features, and partly on particular texts. At the general level, Robinson points out that "1 Corinthians stands in contrast to the general Pauline pattern of making practically no use of sayings of the Lord. Of the four instances in which Paul explicitly cites sayings of the Lord, three occur in 1 Corinthians"6 (1 Cor 7:10-11; 9:14; 11:23-25). This suggests that sayings of Jesus may have played a role in