Brothers, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ I beg of you all to drop these party-cries. There must be no cliques among you; you must regain your common temper and attitude.

It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality such as is unknown even among pagans ??that a man has taken his father's wife!

I say this to put you to shame. Has it come to this, that there is not a single wise man among you who could decide a dispute between members of the brotherhood,

but there is so much immorality that every man had better have a wife of his own and every woman a husband of her own.

Of course, if you are actually married, there is no sin in that; and if a maid marries, there is no sin in that. (At the same time those who marry will have outward trouble ??and I would spare you that.)

Well then, with regard to food that has been offered to idols, I am quite aware that 'there is no such thing as an idol in the world' and that 'there is only the one God.'

(So-called gods there may be, in heaven or on earth ??as indeed there are plenty of them, both gods and 'lords' ??6 but for us there is one God, the Father, from whom all comes, and for whom we exist; one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom all exists, and by whom we exist.)

There must be parties among you, if genuine Christians are to be recognized.

There are varieties of talents, but the same Spirit;

As it is, there are many members and one body.

so that there may be no disunion in the body, but that the various members should have a common concern for one another.

There are ever so many kinds of language in the world, everyone of them meaning something.

if there is no interpreter, let the speaker keep quiet in church and address himself and God.

Now if we preach that Christ rose from the dead, how can certain individuals among you assert that 'there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead'?

If 'there is no such thing as a resurrection from the dead,' then even Christ did not rise;

Otherwise, if there is no such thing as a resurrection, what is the meaning of people getting baptized on behalf of their dead? If dead men do not rise at all, why do people get baptized on their behalf?

Flesh is not all the same; there is human flesh, there is flesh of beasts, flesh of birds, and flesh of fish.

There are heavenly bodies and also earthly bodies, but the splendour of the heavenly is one thing and the splendour of the earthly is another.

There is a splendour of the sun and a splendour of the moon and a splendour of the stars ??for one star differs from another in splendour.

sown an animate body, it rises a spiritual body. As there is an animate body, so there is a spiritual body.

for I have wide opportunities here for active service ??and there are many to thwart me.