for you are still subject to your passions. since envy, and strife, and divisions are among you, are you not actuated by the vices of the animal part?

Now as to things offered to idols, 'tis certain that the knowledge you all pretend to have, swells you with pride, but 'tis charity that edifieth.

but with the greater part God was not well pleased: for their carcasses were strown in the wilderness.

the cup of benediction which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? the bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

for the bread being one, as many as we are, we are one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.

For I received it from the Lord, and I inform'd you of it: that the Lord Jesus, the night in which he was betrayed, took bread:

As often then as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye make a declaration of the Lord's death till he come.

so that whosoever eats this bread, and drinks this cup without respect to the Lord, does make a criminal use of the body and blood of the Lord.

Let a man then sift and approve himself, and accordingly let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.

after that, he was seen by above five hundred brethren at once: of whom the greater part remain alive to this day, but some are now dead.