whereby the testimony we gave concerning Christ was confirmed among you.

and I of Christ." is the school of Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were you baptized into the name of Paul?

As for me, my brethren, when I appear'd among you, it was not to represent to you the divine mystery in sublime language, and with human literature.

for I did not think I was to have any other knowledge among you, than that of Christ, a crucified saviour.

I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in great agony:

for though you may have ten thousand christian preceptors, you cannot have many fathers; since it was I that first instructed you in the gospel of Christ Jesus:

as for me, though I am absent in person, yet being present by my authority, with regard to him that has committed this fact, I am come to the same resolution, as if I was present,

but my meaning was, not to keep company with any christian known to be vicious, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious, no not even to eat with such a one.

Whatever condition God has allotted to any man, let him go on in the same state he was in when he became a christian: this I give as a standing rule to all churches.

let every man continue in the same state he was in when he turn'd christian.

brethren, let every man conscientiously continue in the state he was in when he was converted.

and all drank the same spiritual drink: (for they drank of what flowed from the spiritual rock: and that rock was Christ.)

but with the greater part God was not well pleased: for their carcasses were strown in the wilderness.

or prophesies with her head uncovered, dishonoureth the man who is her head: for it is the same thing as if her head was shav'd.

for the man was not taken from the woman: but the woman from the man.

nor was the man copied from the woman: but the woman from the man.

for as the woman was taken from the man, so man is born of the woman: and all are from God.

on the contrary, such is an ornament to a woman: because it was given her as a sort of veil.

For I received it from the Lord, and I inform'd you of it: that the Lord Jesus, the night in which he was betrayed, took bread:

when I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child: but when I became a man, I laid aside my childish ways.

What, did the gospel take its rise from you? or was it communicated to you alone?

that he was buried, and rose again the third day, as the scriptures foretold:

that he was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve:

after that, he was seen by above five hundred brethren at once: of whom the greater part remain alive to this day, but some are now dead.

after that he was seen by James; then by all the apostles.

and last of all, he was seen by me too, who am as it were an abortive;

it is by the divine favour that I am what I am: and his favour to me was not in vain; no, I laboured more than they all: yet it was not I, it was the divine favour which assisted me.

for if the dead are not raised, then was not Christ raised:

and if Christ was not raised, your faith is meer illusion, your sins are not yet forgiven.

besides, my engaging with those monsters, as I may say, at Ephesus, what advantage was it to me? if the dead don't rise, "let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die."

and so it is written, the first man Adam was made an animating soul, the last Adam was made a vivifying spirit.

but the spiritual body was not first, but the animal; and afterwards the spiritual.

the first man was formed from the dust of the earth: the second man was from heaven.

as was the terrestrial, such are they also that are terrestrial: and as is the celestial, such also shall they be who are to be celestial.

the sting of death was sin; and the strength of sin was the law.

I am glad that Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus are come: for what was wanting on your side, they have supplied.