I subscribe to the Yahoo email list for lay-clerks/choral scholars, and the following is adapted from a reply I recently made to a query on the list. There was a request for anthems associated with St. Paul.
When I last sang Though I speak with the tongues of men by Bairstow (which I find pretty tedious), I reflected how few decent settings of words by St Paul there are. I think it’s probably Paul’s own fault for writing in long, rambling sentences (whichever language or translation you use).
The best settings of Paul I can think of are in the Messiah, but even then they aren’t all high points. How often do you hear ‘If God be for us’ done, except in totally uncut performances? And even among the answers [posted to the email list], Ireland’s Greater Love is a mishmash of words from various books of the Bible and only partly Paul, and the Christus factus est text occurs in Paul’s letters but is probably not his own words.
(An addition: I was once told of an intriguing setting of 1 Corinthians 13 by someone like Per Norgard, by someone who had performed it, but I’m not sure whether it has been published or recorded.)