From: Paul, called to be an apostle of the Messiah Jesus by the will of God, and from our brother Sosthenes.

This is what I mean: Each of you is saying, "I belong to Paul," or "I belong to Apollos," or "I belong to Cephas," or "I belong to the Messiah."

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

For when one person says, "I follow Paul," and another person says, "I follow Apollos," you're following your own human nature, aren't you?

Who is Apollos, anyhow? Or who is Paul? They're merely servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord gave to each of us his task.

whether Paul, Apollos, Cephas, the world, life, death, the present, or the future everything belongs to you,

I, Paul, am writing this greeting with my own hand.