for I have been inform'd, my brethren, by some of Chloe's family, that there are contentions among you.

that is, when you are assembled, and I virtually there, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

what, is there not a man of experience amongst you, capable of being arbitrator between his brethren?

it cannot be. why, don't you perceive, that where there is such an attachment, they are but as one person? for the scripture says, "they two shall be as one."

there is the same difference between a married woman and a virgin: the last is religiously concern'd to be holy, both in body and mind: but she that is married is taken up with worldly cares to please her husband.

As to the eating therefore of what is offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that the heathen deities have no real existence, and that there is but one God.

for tho' there are several titular deities, both in heaven and on earth: such as the whole crowd of gods, and lords among the Gentiles;

yet to us there is but one God, the father, from whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

for there must be factions among you, whereby it will appear who among you are the approved.

Now there are different gifts, but the same spirit.

and there are different offices, but the same Lord.

and there are different operations, but it is the same God who performs them all in every one.

thus, tho' there are many members, yet there is but one body.

that there might be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same mutual concern for one another.

there are, it may be, as many different languages in the world as there are people, and none of them without signification.

But since there is emulation among you concerning spiritual gifts, seek to abound in the exercise of such gifts as tend most to the edification of the church.

and if any man do speak in an unknown tongue, let but two speak, or three at the most, and that by turns: and let there be but one to interpret.

but if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and tacitly address himself to God.

Let your women be silent in your assemblies: for they are not allowed to discourse there; but are to observe orders, as indeed the law implies:

Now if it has been declared, that Christ rose from the dead, how comes it, that some among you assert, "there is no resurrection of the dead?"

for if there be no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen.

All flesh is not of the same kind: but there is one kind that belongs to men, another to beasts, another to fishes, and another to birds.

there are celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is of one kind, and the glory of the terrestrial of another.

it is sown an animal body, it will rise a spiritual body. there is an animal body, and there is a spiritual body.

every sabbath-day let every one of you set apart something of what he has happily gain'd, for the common treasury, that there may be no collection when I come.

for I have a very fair and promising opportunity given me of propagating the gospel, tho' there are many opposers.