so that no one could say that you were baptized in my name.

So, for my part, brothers, I could not treat you as spiritual persons; I had to treat you just as creatures of flesh and blood, as babies in Christian living.

And whether one uses gold or silver or costly stone in building on the foundation, or wood or hay or straw,

To this day we have gone hungry, thirsty, and ill-clad; we have had rough usage, we have had no home,

I ask it to shame you. Has it come to this, that there is not a single wise man among you who could settle a disagreement between one brother and another,

and those who mourn as though they did not mourn, and those who are glad as though they were not glad, and those who buy anything as though they did not own it,

For I would not have you forget, brothers, that though our forefathers were all protected by the cloud, and all passed safely through the sea,

and in the cloud and the sea all, as it were, accepted baptism as followers of Moses,

You know that when you were heathen you would stray off, as impulse directed, to idols that could not speak.

If all the body were eye, how would we hear? If it were all ear, how could we have a sense of smell?

And I am glad that Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus have come here, for they have made up for your absence.