For who makes you superior? And what do you have that you did not get from someone? But if you got it from someone, why do you boast as though you had not?

Certain individuals have got puffed up, have they, as if I were not coming myself?

For I would have you remember, brethren, how our forefathers were all of them sheltered by the cloud, and all got safely through the Red Sea.

Then do not go after false gods, as some of them did; as it is said in the holy Writings, After resting and feasting, the people got up to take their pleasure.

Otherwise what will become of those who got themselves baptized for the dead? If the dead do not rise at all, why are these baptized for them?

And when I come, I will send the men of your selection with letters to take the money you have got together to Jerusalem.