for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are.

Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem to be wise among you in this age -- let him become a fool, that he may become wise,

flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

And this I do because of the good news, that a fellow-partaker of it I may become;

neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them did commit whoredom, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand;

so that he who is thinking to stand -- let him observe, lest he fall.

Wherefore, my beloved, flee from the idolatry;

The love doth never fail; and whether there be prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;

afterwards he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain till now, and certain also did fall asleep;

and I rejoice over the presence of Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus, because the lack of you did these fill up;