I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you could not take it. Why, you cannot take it even now,

For who makes you superior? And what do you have that you did not get from someone? But if you got it from someone, why do you boast as though you had not?

This is why I have sent Timothy to you. He is a dear child of mine and trustworthy in the Lord's work; he will call to your minds my methods in the work of Christ Jesus, just as I teach them everywhere in every church.

To say no more, it is a mark of moral failure among you to have lawsuits at all with one another. Why not rather suffer being wronged? Why not suffer being robbed?

I mean his conscience, not yours. Why then should my personal freedom be limited by another's conscience?

If I give thanks and thus partake of food, why am I to be blamed for that for which I give thanks?

This is why woman ought to wear upon her head a symbol of man's authority, especially out of respect to the angels.

This is why many of you are sick and feeble, and a considerable number are falling asleep.

Otherwise, what do those people mean who submit to being baptized on behalf of their dead? If the dead are never raised at all, why do they submit to being baptized on their behalf?

Why too do we ourselves run such risks every hour?