for I have been inform'd, my brethren, by some of Chloe's family, that there are contentions among you.

Some make their boast as if I would not come to you.

and such were some of you: but you have been washed, you have been sanctified, you have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and by the spirit of our God.

for I wish that all men were as I myself am: but every man hath his proper gift from God, some one way, and some another.

But every one has not this knowledge: for some still imagine the idol represents a deity: and eat the meat under the notion of an offering to such a being: by which erroneous opinion they are infected with idolatry.

if for your benefit we have sown spirituals, is it so extraordinary if we should reap some benefit from your temporals?

be not idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, "the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."

neither let us commit fornication, as some of them did, of whom three and twenty thousand fell in one day.

neither let us provoke Christ as some of them provoked him, and were destroyed by serpents.

neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and were slain by the destroying angel.

for first, I hear, that when you come together in the church, you fall into parties; and I believe it is true of some of you.

after that, he was seen by above five hundred brethren at once: of whom the greater part remain alive to this day, but some are now dead.

Now if it has been declared, that Christ rose from the dead, how comes it, that some among you assert, "there is no resurrection of the dead?"

rouze from your sins, as is but just; for some of you have not the knowledge of God: I speak it to your shame.

But some will say, how will the dead be raised? with what kind of body will they appear?

and whatever you sow, you don't sow that body which shall afterwards appear, but only the bare grain of wheat, for instance, or of some other grain.

pass thro' Macedonia) and perhaps I shall make some stay, if not pass the winter with you, that you may forward me on my journey, wherever I go.

for I do not design to see you in my passage thither, yet I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permit.