For he who is called by the Lord as a slave is the Lord’s freedman. Likewise he who is called as a free man is Christ’s slave.

To God’s church at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus and called as saints, with all those in every place who call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord—both their Lord and ours.

Yet to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is God’s power and God’s wisdom,

Paul, called as an apostle of Christ Jesus by God’s will, and Sosthenes our brother:

I always thank my God for you because of God’s grace given to you in Christ Jesus,

Is Christ divided? Was it Paul who was crucified for you? Or were you baptized in Paul’s name?

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to evangelize—not with clever words, so that the cross of Christ will not be emptied of its effect.

But each in his own order: Christ, the firstfruits; afterward, at His coming, those who belong to Christ.

For

who has known the Lord’s mind,
that he may instruct Him?

But we have the mind of Christ.

and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.

A person should consider us in this way: as servants of Christ and managers of God’s mysteries.

We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are dishonored!

For you can have 10,000 instructors in Christ, but you can’t have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

Don’t you know that your bodies are a part of Christ’s body? So should I take a part of Christ’s body and make it part of a prostitute? Absolutely not!

To those who are without that law, like one without the law—not being without God’s law but within Christ’s law—to win those without the law.

The cup of blessing that we give thanks for, is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Christ?

But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of the woman, and God is the head of Christ.