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

Has Christ been divided? Paul, was he crucified for you? or was it into the name of Paul that you were baptized?

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

My message and my preaching were not in the persuasive language of philosophy, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power;

I fed you milk, not meat; for you were unable to bear it.

If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, as it were through the flames.

When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when defamed, we conciliate. We have been made, as it were, scum-o'-the-earth, the very refuse of the world, to this very hour!

Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.

Not that in this world you were actually to have no contact with the immoral, the avaricious, the thievish, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world, altogether.

But what I wrote was that you were not to associate with any so-called brother who is immoral, or avaricious, or idolatrous, or abusive, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. No, with such persons do not even sit at table.

Such were some of you, but you have washed away your stains, you have been consecrated, you have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

Were you called in slavery? Let not that trouble you; but if you can become free make use of the opportunity.

For if any one should see you, the possessor of "knowledge," reclining at table in an idol's temple, would not his conscience, if he were weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

For I would not have you ignorant, brothers, how 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.

and all drank from the same spiritual stream, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.

But in most of them God was not well pleased, for they were laid low in the desert.

Neither must we presume upon the patience of our Lord, as some of them presumed, and were destroyed by the serpents;

nor murmur, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the Destroying Angel.

Now these things were happening to them typically, but were written down for our admonition who stand at the meeting of the ages.

but every woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled dishonors her head (her husband). for it is one and the same thing as if she were shaven.

If however, we were judging ourselves aright, we should not now be condemned;

You know that when you were heathen you went astray after dumb idols, wherever he be led.

And we can see this, for in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jew or Gentile, whether slave or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

If the whole body were an eye, where were hearing? If all were hearing, where were smelling?

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

I beg you this, my brothers??ou know the household of Stephanus, that they were the first-fruits of Achaia, and that they devoted themselves to the service of the saints??16 so I want you also to show deference to such, and to every fellow worker, and laborer.