That's because you are still worldly. As long as there is jealousy and quarreling among you, you are worldly and living by human standards, aren't you?

For when one person says, "I follow Paul," and another person says, "I follow Apollos," you're following your own human nature, aren't you?

For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on exhibition at the disgraced end of the procession, as they do with men who are doomed to die in the arena.

After all, is it my business to judge outsiders? You are to judge those who are in the community, aren't you?

I am free, am I not? I am an apostle, am I not? I have seen Jesus our Lord, haven't I? You are the result of my work in the Lord, aren't you?

Know ye not that those who run in an arena, indeed all run, but one receives the prize? So run that ye may seize it.

For if the dead aren't raised, neither has Christ been raised.

Or else what will they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead aren't raised at all, why then are they baptized for the dead?

If with only human hopes I had fought in the arena at Ephesus, what should I have gained by it? If the dead do not rise, then-'Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die'!