Now I entreat you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to cultivate a spirit of harmony--all of you--and that there be no divisions among you, but rather a perfect union through your having one mind and one judgement.

I fed you with milk and not with solid food, since for this you were not yet strong enough. And even now you are not strong enough:

Now in aim and purpose the planter and the waterer are one; and yet each will receive his own special reward, answering to his own special work.

And all this describes what some of you were. But now you have had every stain washed off: now you have been set apart as holy: now you have been pronounced free from guilt; in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.

I now deal with the subjects mentioned in your letter. It is well for a man to abstain altogether from marriage.

I think then that, taking into consideration the distress which is now upon us, it is well for a man to remain as he is.

and those who use the world as not using it to the full. For the world as it now exists is passing away.

Now as to things which have been sacrificed to idols. This is a subject which we already understand--because we all have knowledge of it. Knowledge, however, tends to make people conceited; it is love that builds us up.

But all believers do not recognize these facts. Some, from force of habit in relation to the idol, even now eat idol sacrifices as such, and their consciences, being but weak, are polluted.

But I, for my part, have not used, and do not use, my full rights in any of these things. Nor do I now write with that object so far as I myself am concerned, for I would rather die than have anybody make this boast of mine an empty one.

But now I mean his conscience, not your own. "Why, on what ground," you may object, "is the question of my liberty of action to be decided by a conscience not my own?

Now I commend you for remembering me in everything, and because you hold fast truths and practices precisely as I have taught them to you.

Now there are various kinds of gifts, but there is one and the same Spirit;

But always seek to excel in the greater gifts. And now I will point out to you a way of life which transcends all others.

If any one deems himself to be a Prophet or a man with spiritual gifts, let him recognize as the Lord's command all that I am now writing to you.

Afterwards He was seen by more than five hundred brethren at once, most of whom are still alive, although some of them have now fallen asleep.

Now sin is the sting of death, and sin derives its power from the Law;

It is a joy to me that Stephanas, Fortunatus and Achaicus have now arrived, because what was wanting so far as you are concerned they have supplied.