For I have been informed, my brothers, by Chloe's people, that quarrels are going on among you.

Christ has been divided up! But was it Paul who was crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

For who sees anything special in you? And what have you got that you have not been given? But if it has been given you, why do you boast as though it had not been?

For my part, though I have been absent from you in person, I have been present with you in spirit, and as thus present I have already passed judgment upon the man who has done this,

Some of you used to be like that; but you have washed it all away, you have been consecrated, you have become upright, by the power of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.

you have been bought and paid for. Therefore, honor God with your bodies.

For a slave who has been called to union with the Lord is a freedman of the Lord, just as a free man who has been called is a slave of Christ.

You have been bought and paid for; you must not let yourselves become slaves to men.

About food that has been offered to idols, it is true, as you say, that we all have some knowledge on that matter. Knowledge gives people airs; love is what builds up character.

As to eating things, then, that have been offered to idols, we all know that no idol has any real existence, and that there is no God but one.

But it is not everyone that has this knowledge; for some, through being long accustomed to idols, still eat meat that has been sacrificed to them as really offered to an idol, and their consciences, being oversensitive, are troubled.

But if someone says to you, "This meat has been offered in sacrifice," let it alone, on account of the man who told you and his conscientious scruples;

For we have all??ews or Greeks, slaves or free men??een baptized in one spirit to form one body, and we have all been saturated with one Spirit.

and through which you are to be saved, if you hold on, unless your faith has been all for nothing.

and as we have been like the man of the earth, let us also try to be like the man from heaven.

And when this mortal nature puts on immortality, then what the Scripture says will come true??Death has been triumphantly destroyed.