For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in [my] name because you are Christ's, truly I say to you that he will never lose his reward.

So then, my brothers, you also were brought to death with respect to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.

and you [are] Christ's, and Christ [is] God's.

But each in his own group: Christ the first fruits, then those [who are] Christ's at his coming,

You are looking at things according to appearance. If anyone is convinced he himself is Christ's, he should consider this concerning himself again: that just as Christ himself [is], so also [are] we.

And if you [are] Christ's, then you are descendants of Abraham, heirs according to the promise.

Now to each one of us was given this grace, according to the measure of Christ's gift.

Only lead your lives in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent I hear {your circumstances}, that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one soul contending side by side for the faith of the gospel,