But I appeal to you, Brothers, by the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to agree in what you profess, and not to allow divisions to exist among you, but to be united-of one mind and of one opinion.

For I have been informed, my Brothers, by the members of Chloe's household, that party feeling exists among you.

Look at the facts of your Call, Brothers. There are not many among you who are wise, as men reckon wisdom, not many who are influential, not many who are high-born;

Indeed, when I came among you, I was weak, and full of fears, and in great anxiety.

While there exist among you jealousy and party feeling, is it not true that you are worldly, and are acting merely as other men do?

Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you imagines that, as regards this world, he is a wise man, let him become a 'fool,' that he may become wise.

There is a wide-spread report respecting a case of immorality among you, and that, too, of a kind that does not occur even among the Gentiles-a man, I hear, is living with his father's wife!

While God judges those who are outside? 'Put away the wicked man from among you.'

Can it be that there is not one man among you wise enough to decide between two of his Brothers?

Indeed, there must be actual parties among you, for so only will the men of real worth become known.

That is why so many among you are weak and ill, and why some are sleeping.

The secrets of his heart are revealed, and then, throwing himself on his face, he will worship God, and declare 'God is indeed among you!'