that your faith might not be owing to human wisdom, but to the divine influence.

who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye have received faith according to the divine gifts imparted to each of them?

to another faith; to another the gifts of healing;

and tho' I should have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and tho' I had all the faith necessary to remove mountains, and had no benevolence, it would signify nothing.

and now faith, hope, social virtue, these three will all remain; but the most permanent of the three is social virtue.

and if Christ be not risen, then our preaching is empty talk, and your faith even meer amusement.

and if Christ was not raised, your faith is meer illusion, your sins are not yet forgiven.

Be upon the watch, stand firm in the faith, behave your selves like men of fortitude: