I planted and Apollos watered; but it was God who was, all the time, giving the increase.

But while giving you these instructions, there is one thing I cannot praise--your meeting together, with bad rather than good results.

and after giving thanks He broke it and said, "This is my body which is about to be broken for you. Do this in memory of me."

Otherwise, if you bless God in spirit only, how shall he who is in the position of an ungifted man say the 'Amen' to your giving of thanks, when he does not know what your words mean?

Rightly enough you are giving thanks, and yet your neighbor is not benefited.

In the same way also it is written, "The first man Adam became a living animal"; the last Adam is a life-giving Spirit.