For consider your own calling, brothers, that not many wise in earthly wisdom, not many powerful, not many of noble birth, have been called.

For though there be so-called "gods," celestial of terrestrial, as indeed there are gods many and lords many,

This is why many among you are feeble and sickly, and many sleep.

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, although they be many, are one body; so also is Christ.

upon those parts of the body which we esteem less honorable, we bestow more abundant honor, and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.

Afterward he was seen at one time by more than five hundred brethren, most of whom are still alive, but some are fallen asleep.