I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, nor have you yet sufficient strength.

I therefore so run, not as one that is distanc'd: I fight, but not with the air.

but all are wrought by one and the same spirit, distributing to every one in particular, as he thinks fit.

if the foot should say, "because I am not the hand, I am not of the body;" is it therefore not of the body?

now God disposed every one of the members in the body as he thought fit.

and the eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of thee:" nor again, the head to the feet, "I have no need of you."

for he must reign, "till God has cast all his enemies under his feet."

but God gives it such a body, as he thinks fit, to every seed its peculiar body.

as to brother Apollos, I earnestly entreat him to make you a visit, with the brethren: but he has not the least mind to it at present; however, he will be with you when a fit occasion offers.