that in everything you were enriched in Him, in all speech and all knowledge,

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

Has Christ been divided? Paul was not crucified for you, was he? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

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

For consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble;

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 to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able,

For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.

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

For I, on my part, though absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged him who has so committed this, as though I were present.

Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

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

Were you called while a slave? Do not worry about it; but if you are able also to become free, rather do that.

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

However not all men have this knowledge; but some, being accustomed to the idol until now, eat food as if it were sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.

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;

and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ.

Nevertheless, with most of them God was not well-pleased; for they were laid low 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.”

Nor let us try the Lord, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the 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 for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

You know that when you were pagans, you were led astray to the mute idols, however you were led.

For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

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

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

Now I urge you, brethren (you know the household of Stephanas, that they were the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves for ministry to the saints),