For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the good news -- but not by means of wisdom and rhetoric, so that the cross of Christ may not be emptied of its power.

Just so the Lord has issued orders that those who preach the good news shall get their living out of it.

For if I do preach the good news, I have no ground for boasting of it, for I cannot help doing it. Yes, indeed, I am accursed if I do not preach the good news.

Then what is the pay that I am getting? To be able to preach the good news without expense to anybody, and so never to make full use of my rights in preaching the good news.

Is not the consecrated cup which we consecrate a sign of our sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the loaf which we break a sign of our sharing in the body of Christ?

and gave thanks for it and broke it and said, "This is my body which is given for you. Do this in memory of me."

But whether it was I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.

Now if we preach that Christ has been raised from the dead, how is it that some of you are saying that there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead?

and if Christ was not raised, the message which we preach has nothing in it; there is nothing in our faith either,