For you were made rich in every way in him, in all your speech and in every kind of knowledge --

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

Is Christ divided? Paul wasn't crucified for you, was he? Or were you in fact baptized in the name of Paul?

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

Think about the circumstances of your call, brothers and sisters. Not many were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were born to a privileged position.

My conversation and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

I fed you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready. In fact, you are still not ready,

Some have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.

For even though I am absent physically, I am present in spirit. And I have already judged the one who did this, just as though I were present.

Some of you once lived this way. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

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

Were you called as a slave? Do not worry about it. But if indeed you are able to be free, make the most of the opportunity.

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

those who use the world as though they were not using it to the full. For the present shape of this world is passing away.

For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, 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 all drinking from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were cut down in the wilderness.

So do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play."

And let us not be immoral, as some of them were, and twenty-three thousand died in a single day.

And let us not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by snakes.

And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.

These things happened to them as examples and were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

You know that when you were pagans you were often led astray by speechless idols, however you were led.

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body. Whether Jews or Greeks or slaves or free, we were all made to drink of the one Spirit.

If the whole body were an eye, what part would do the hearing? If the whole were an ear, what part would exercise the sense of smell?

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