For Christ did not think I baptized any one else. For Christ did not send me forth to baptize, but to proclaim the gospel; and that not in philosophic words, lest the Cross of Christ should be made an empty thing.

Sage, rabbi, skeptic of this present age??here are they all? Has not God made foolish the philosophy of the world?

It is of him that you are in Christ Jesus, whom God made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

I fed you milk, not meat; for you were unable to bear it.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God made the seed grow.

On that foundation, if a man proceeds to build gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble, each man's work will be made manifest.

If any man's work??he building he has made??tands the test, he will be rewarded.

Now these things, brothers, I have applied in a figure to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that in us you might learn not to go beyond what is written; that none of you be puffed up for the one, against the other.

But you, forsooth, are already full, are you? You are already rich? Without us you are already reigning? Yes, and I would that you did reign, so that we also might reign with you.

But it seems to me that God has exhibited us apostles, last of all, like men doomed to death; for we are made a spectacle to the whole world, both to men and to angels.

When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when defamed, we conciliate. We have been made, as it were, scum-o'-the-earth, the very refuse of the world, to this very hour!

Again, the woman who is widow, or the maid, is anxious about the Lord's business, how she may be pure in body and in mind; but the married woman is anxious about worldly affairs, how she may please her husband.

Therefore, if what I eat makes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, lest I make my brother to stumble.

Now this happened as a warning for us, that we might not long for evil things as they longed.

For it is not man who was made from woman, but woman was made from man.

for just as the woman was made from the man, so also is the man born of the woman, while they both come from God.

To begin with, I am told??nd I believe there is some truth in it??hat when you meet at a church there are divisions among you.

For there must needs be also parties among you, in order that the good may be tested and made known.

Again, when you meet together, there is no true eating of the Lord's Supper;

And we can see this, for in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jew or Gentile, whether slave or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

Accordingly, when the whole church assemblies, and everybody is speaking "with tongues," if there enter men unlearned or unbelieving, will they not say that you are mad?

What follows, then, brothers? Whenever you meet together, each contributes something; a psalm, a sermon, a revelation, a tongue, an interpretation. Let all be done for edification.

But if to one as he sits there some revelation is made, let the first be silent.

For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

For when everything is subjected to him, then the Son himself shall subject himself to Him who made them subject, that God may be all in all.

I am glad that Stephanus and Fortunatus and Achaicus have arrived, for they have made up for your absence.