Now I entreat you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to cultivate a spirit of harmony--all of you--and that there be no divisions among you, but rather a perfect union through your having one mind and one judgement.

For I have been distinctly informed, my brethren, about you by Chloe's people, that there are dissensions among you.

For I determined to be utterly ignorant, when among you, of everything except of Jesus Christ, and of Him as having been crucified.

Yet when we are among mature believers we do speak words of wisdom; a wisdom not belonging, however, to the present age nor to the leaders of the present age who are soon to pass away.

For, among human beings, who knows a man's inner thoughts except the man's own spirit within him? In the same way, also, only God's Spirit is acquainted with God's inner thoughts.

you are still unspiritual. For so long as jealousy and strife continue among you, can it be denied that you are unspiritual and are living and acting like mere men of the world?

It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and of a kind unheard of even among the Gentiles--a man has his father's wife!

And you, instead of mourning and removing from among you the man who has done this deed of shame, are filled with self-complacency!

while you leave to God's judgement those who are outside? Remove the wicked man from among you.

I say this to put you to shame. Has it come to this, that there does not exist among you a single wise man competent to decide between a man and his brother,

For, in such cases, the unbelieving husband has become--and is--holy through union with a Christian woman, and the unbelieving wife is holy through union with a Christian brother. Otherwise your children would be unholy, but in reality they have a place among God's people.

for, in the first place, when you meet as a Church, there are divisions among you. This is what I am told, and I believe that there is some truth in it.

For there must of necessity be differences of opinion among you, in order that it may be plainly seen who are the men of sterling worth among you.

That is why many among you are sickly and out of health, and why not a few die.

and the hidden evils of his heart are brought to light. And, as the result, he will fall on his face and worship God, and will report to others that of a truth God is among you.

But, in reality, Christ *has* risen from among the dead, being the first to do so of those who are asleep.