Brothers, consider your calling: Not many are wise from a human perspective, not many powerful, not many of noble birth.

For you can have 10,000 instructors in Christ, but you can’t have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth—as there are many “gods” and many “lords”—

Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for all of us share that one bread.

just as I also try to please all people in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of many, so that they may be saved.

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This is why many are sick and ill among you, and many have fallen asleep.

For as the body is one and has many parts, and all the parts of that body, though many, are one body—so also is Christ.

So the body is not one part but many.

Now there are many parts, yet one body.

There are doubtless many different kinds of languages in the world, and all have meaning.

because a wide door for effective ministry has opened for me—yet many oppose me.