For who makes you a differ, brother? Or what have you that you did not receive? But if you did receive it, why are you boasting as if you had not received it?

Why then, if you have cases relating to earthly affairs which need to be decided, is it men who are absolutely nothing in the church whom you make your judges?

Indeed, to say nothing more, the fact that you have lawsuits with one another is altogether a defect in you. Why not rather suffer injustice? Why not rather endure being cheated?

and for your conscience sake??is conscience, not your own. "But," you may object, "why should my freedom be decided upon another's scruples of conscience?

If I eat after giving thanks, why am I denounced for eating that for which I have given thanks?"

This is why many among you are feeble and sickly, and many sleep.

Else what shall they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are really not raised, why are they baptized for them?

Yes, and why am I myself exposed to danger every hour?