but God has revealed them to us by his Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.

I have fed you milk, not solid food; for you were not yet able; but you are not able even now;

Even to this hour we suffer hunger and thirst and nakedness, and are beaten, and are unsettled,

being defamed we entreat; we are made like the offscouring of the world and the vilest of all things, even till now.

But now I have written to you not to associate, if any one called a brother is a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious, even to eat with such a one.

For I wish that all men were even as I am; but each one has his gift from God, and one is of one kind and another of another.

For even if there are those called Gods, whether in heaven or on earth, as there are many gods and many lords,

But all have not this knowledge; and some with the conscience [unenlightened] even till now eat an idol's [sacrifice] as an idol's sacrifice, and their conscience being weak is defiled.

Afterwards he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at once, of whom the most continue even to the present time, but some have fallen asleep.