And thus there is no gift in which you are deficient, while waiting for the Appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Look at the facts of your Call, Brothers. There are not many among you who are wise, as men reckon wisdom, not many who are influential, not many who are high-born;

Yet there is a philosophy that we teach to those whose faith is matured, but it is not the philosophy of to-day, nor that of the leaders of to-day-men whose downfall is at hand.

For what man is there who knows what a man is, except the man's own spirit within him? So, also, no one comprehends what God is, except the Spirit of God.

While there exist among you jealousy and party feeling, is it not true that you are worldly, and are acting merely as other men do?

There is a wide-spread report respecting a case of immorality among you, and that, too, of a kind that does not occur even among the Gentiles-a man, I hear, is living with his father's wife!

Can it be that there is not one man among you wise enough to decide between two of his Brothers?

With reference, then, to eating food that has been offered to idols-we are aware that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

Even supposing that there are so-called 'gods' either in Heaven or on earth-and there are many such 'gods' and 'lords'-

Yet for us there is only one God, the Father, from whom all things come (and for him we live), and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things come (and through him we live).

In the Cup of Blessing which we bless, is not there a sharing in the blood of the Christ? And in the Bread which we break, is not there a sharing in the Body of the Christ?

Indeed, there must be actual parties among you, for so only will the men of real worth become known.

You know that there was a time when you were Gentiles, going astray after idols that could not speak, just as you happened to be led.

To each man there is given spiritual illumination for the general good.

But in fact, although it has many parts, there is only one body.

As to secure that there should be no disunion in the body, but that the parts should show the same care for one another.

There is, for instance, a certain number of different languages in the world, and not one of them fails to convey meaning.

If there is no one able to interpret what is said, they should remain silent at the meeting of the Church, and speak to themselves and to God.

But, if some revelation is made to another person as he sits there, the first speaker should stop.

Now, if it is proclaimed of Christ that he has been raised from the dead, how is it that some of you say that there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead?

But, if there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead, then even Christ has not been raised;

For, since through a man there is death, so, too, through a man there is a resurrection of the dead.

Awake to a righteous life, and cease to sin. There are some who have no true knowledge of God. I speak in this way to shame you.

All forms of life are not the same; there is one for men, another for beasts, another for birds, and another for fishes.

There are heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies; but the beauty of the heavenly bodies is not the beauty of the earthly.

There is a beauty of the sun, and a beauty of the moon, and a beauty of the stars; for even star differs from star in beauty.

As surely as there is a human body, there is also a spiritual body.

For a great opening for active work has presented itself, and there are many opponents.