Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye would all say alike, and that there may be no schisms among you, but that ye be perfectly united in the same mind and in the same judgement.

For I have been informed concerning you, my brethren, by some of Chloe's family, that there are contentions among you.

Let no one deceive himself: if any among you seem to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be truly wise.

Now some are puffed up, as if I would not come to you.

And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the spirit of our God.

For though there be some that are called Gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are among the heathen gods many,

But there is not in all men this knowledge: and some with a consciousness of the idol unto this day, eat it as a thing sacrificed to an idol, and so their conscience being weak is defiled.

or saith not the law the same also? for it is written in the law of Moses, "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn." Now doth God take care for oxen,

To the weak I became as the weak, that I might gain the weak: I became all things to all men, that I might by every means save some.

and did all eat the same spiritual food;

and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them: and that rock was an emblem of Christ.

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

Neither let us commit whoredom, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted Him, and were destroyed by serpents: nor murmur,

as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

For I received from the Lord, that which I also delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which He was betrayed took bread:

And in the same manner He took the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant ratified in my blood: this do, as often as ye drink of it, in remembrance of me."

Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit: and there are different offices, but the same Lord:

but it is the same God who worketh them all in every one.

For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;

to another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;

but all these worketh that one and the same Spirit distributing to every one in particular as He sees fit.

But those parts of the body, which seem to be weaker, are much more necessary:

that there might be no schism in the body; but that all the members might have the same care one for another.

If any one seem to be a prophet, or acted by the Spirit, let him acknowlege that what I write to you are the commandments of the Lord.

after that He appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain yet alive, but some are fallen asleep.

Now if it be preached that Christ is risen from the dead, how say some among you, that there is no resurrection of the dead?

Behave soberly, as ye ought to do, and sin not: for some of you have not the knowledge of God; to your shame I speak it.

But some will say, How are the dead raised, and with what body do they come?

All flesh is not the same kind of flesh: but there is one flesh of men, and another of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.

For I do not intend to see you now in my way, as I hope to stay some time with you, if the Lord permit.