Is the Messiah divided? Paul wasn't crucified for you, was he? You weren't baptized in Paul's name, were you?

I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,

for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men?

For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," aren't you fleshly?

For I think that God has displayed us apostles last in line, as men doomed to die. [Note: The picture here is that of gladiators in the arena]. We are being stared at [i.e., as performers on a theater stage] for the whole world to see, both angels and people.

I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.

After all, is it my business to judge outsiders? You are to judge those who are in the community, aren't you?

Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.

Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.

Yet of this I warn you, brethren: the time has been shortened--so that henceforth those who have wives should be as though they had none,

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven't I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren't you my work in the Lord?

We have the right to earn our food, don't we?

In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should earn their living by the gospel.

Know ye not that those who run in an arena, indeed all run, but one receives the prize? So run that ye may seize it.

Now these things happened to warn us, so that we should not long for what is evil as they did.

This I warn you of, and commend not that ye come together: not after a better manner but after a worse.

Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;

For if the dead aren't raised, neither has Christ been raised.

Or else what will they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead aren't raised at all, why then are they baptized for the dead?

If with only human hopes I had fought in the arena at Ephesus, what should I have gained by it? If the dead do not rise, then-'Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die'!

And just as we have worn the form of the earthly, we will also wear the form of the heavenly.