that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge

God is faithful, by whom you were called into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

so that no one would say you were baptized in my name.

For consider your call, brethren; not many of you were wise according to fleshly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.

and my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

I gave you milk, not solid food; for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, even now you are not ready,

Now some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.

For though I am absent in body, I am present in spirit, and have already passed judgment on the one who has committed this, as if I were present.

And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body.

I wish that all men were as I myself am. But each man has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that.

Were you a slave when you were called? Do not let it trouble youbut if you can gain your freedom, do so.

You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men.

and those who mourn, as though they were not mourning; and those who rejoice, as though they were not rejoicing; and those who buy, as though they did not possess;

For I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea;

and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased; for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to play."

We must not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents.

Nor grumble, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written down for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her headit is the same as if her head were shaved.

You know that when you were pagans, you were led astray to mute idols, however you may have been moved.

For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one bodywhether Jews or Greeks, slaves or freeand we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?

If they were all one member, where would the body be?

You know that the household of Stephanas were the first converts in Achaia, and they have devoted themselves to the service of the saints. Now I urge you, brethren,