For though I am absent in body but present in spirit, I have already decided about the one who has done this thing as though I were present.

Then He appeared to over 500 brothers at one time;
most of them are still alive,
but some have fallen asleep.

whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come—everything is yours,

Up to the present hour we are both hungry and thirsty; we are poorly clothed, roughly treated, homeless;

Therefore I consider this to be good because of the present distress: It is fine for a man to remain as he is.