Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

But God brought you into [fellowship with] Christ Jesus, who was made to be God's wisdom for us. Through Christ you have received a right relationship with God, [as well as] holiness and redemption [i.e., being bought back from Satan].

Do not form any premature judgments, therefore, but wait until the Lord comes back. For he will light up the darkness that now hides things and show what the motives in people's minds are, and then everyone will get from God the praise he deserves.

I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.

And God who made the Lord Jesus come back from the dead will do the same for us by his power.

Do not keep back from one another what is right, but only for a short time, and by agreement, so that you may give yourselves to prayer, and come together again; so that Satan may not get the better of you through your loss of self-control.

For until the Lord comes back, every time you eat this bread and drink from the cup, you proclaim his death.

But as it is brothers, if I come back to you and speak ecstatically, what good will I do you, unless I have some revelation or special knowledge or message or teaching to give you?

Whereas, if everybody prophesies, and some unbeliever or outsider comes in, he is exposed by all, brought to book by all;

And he was put in the place of the dead; and on the third day he came back from the dead, as it says in the Writings;

Now if the good news says that Christ came back from the dead, how do some of you say that there is no coming back from the dead?

But if there is no coming back from the dead, then Christ has not come back from the dead:

Yes, and we are seen to be false witnesses of God; because we gave witness of God that by his power Christ came again from the dead: which is not true if there is no coming back from the dead.

But now Christ has truly come back from the dead, the first-fruits of those who are sleeping.

For as by man came death, so by man there is a coming back from the dead.

For as in Adam death comes to all, so in Christ will all come back to life.

Again, what will they do who are given baptism for the dead? if the dead do not come back at all, why are people given baptism for them?

Come back to your senses as you should, and stop sinning! For some of you I say this to your shame don't fully know God.

But some one will say, "How can the dead rise? And with what kind of body do they come back?"

So is it with the coming back from the dead. It is planted in death; it comes again in life:

On the first day of every week each of you must put aside and store up something in proportion as he is prospered, so that no contributions need be made when I come back.

So no one is to slight him. But see him off cordially when he comes back to me, for I am expecting him with the other brothers.

Now I beg you, brothers (you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to serve the saints),

I beg you to put yourselves under leaders like these, and under anyone who cooperates with you, and labors hard.

If anyone [there] does not love the Lord, he deserves to be cut off from God. O Lord, come [back soon].