true, I baptized the family of Stephanas: but I don't know that I baptized any other besides.

Don't you know, that you are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwells in you?

we are fatigu'd by our manual toil: when reviled, we pray: when persecuted, we don't repine:

This I don't write to give you any confusion, but by way of remonstrance, to you who are my dear children.

for though you may have ten thousand christian preceptors, you cannot have many fathers; since it was I that first instructed you in the gospel of Christ Jesus:

this you have made a matter of levity, instead of being concern'd in discarding him that has done such an action.

Your levity is very indecent: don't you know that a little leaven infects the whole mass?

don't you know that these are to judge the world? if the world is to be judg'd by you, are not you qualify'd to decide your petty causes?

don't you know that we shall be judges of angels? much more then of the affairs of life?

beside, you are absolutely in the wrong in going to law with one another at all: why don't you rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer loss?

Don't you know, that your bodies are parts of Christ's mystical body? now, how can that which is Christ's, be made the property of a very creature?

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."

don't desert one another, unless you mutually consent to retire for a time, to the solemnity of prayer; and then come together again, lest satan make an attempt upon your continency.

were you called being a slave? be not perplex'd about it; but if you can obtain your freedom, don't refuse it.

have you been redeemed from slavery? then, don't turn slaves.

are you contracted to a wife? seek not to be disengag'd. are you disengag'd from your wife? don't look out for another;

meat does not recommend us to God: if we eat, we are not the better men; if we don't eat, we are not the worse.

don't you know, that they who prepare the sacrifices, do eat of the sacrifice in the temple? and they who wait at the altar, have their portion from the altar?

be not idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, "the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."

but if any man say to you, this is offered in sacrifice to an idol, don't eat, for his sake that mentioned it, and for conscience sake.

when I say conscience, I don't mean your own, but that of the other: for why should I expose my liberty to the censure of another man's conscience?

And even inanimate instruments of sound, whether pipe or harp, except they have a distinct variety of notes, how can they express any significant tune?

therefore if I don't know the meaning of the language, with respect to him that speaks, I shall be a barbarian; and he that speaks shall be a barbarian to me.

what then is to be done? why, I will pray by the spirit, but my prayer shall be intelligible: I will sing by the spirit, but my hymn shall be intelligible.

yet in the church I had rather speak five words that convey my meaning to the instruction of others, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

the secrets of his heart become manifest; and so falling down on his face, he will worship God, and declare that God is certainly amongst you.

what is then to be done, my brethren? when you come together, one of you with a psalm, another with a doctrine, another with a strange tongue, another with a revelation, another with an interpretation: let the whole be done to edification.

wherefore, brethren, zealously exercise the gift of prophecy, and don't prohibit those that speak in an unknown language.

let all things be done with decency, and without disorder.

besides, my engaging with those monsters, as I may say, at Ephesus, what advantage was it to me? if the dead don't rise, "let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die."

and whatever you sow, you don't sow that body which shall afterwards appear, but only the bare grain of wheat, for instance, or of some other grain.