Some, I hear, are puffed up with pride, thinking that I am not coming to you.

Such some of you used to be; but you washed yourselves clean. You became Christ's People! you were pronounced righteous through the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and through the Spirit of our God!

Still, it is not every one that has this knowledge. Some people, because of their association with idols, continued down to the present time, eat the food as food offered to an idol; and their consciences, while still weak, are dulled.

For if some one should see you who possess this knowledge, feasting in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is a weak man, become so hardened that he, too, will eat food offered to idols?

Am I, in all this, speaking only from the human standpoint? Does not the Law also say the same?

To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all men, so as at all costs to save some.

And that they all ate the same supernatural food,

and all drank the same supernatural water, for they used to drink from a supernatural rock which followed them, and that rock was the Christ.

Do not become idolaters, as some of them became. Scripture says-'The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to dance.'

Nor let us act immorally, as some of them acted, with the result that twenty-three thousand of them fell dead in a single day.

Nor let us try the patience of the Lord too far, as some of them tried it, with the result that they 'were, one after another, destroyed by the snakes.'

And do not murmur, as some of them murmured, and so 'were destroyed by the Angel of Death.'

To begin with, I hear you and, to some extent, I believe it.

For I myself received from the Lord the account which I have in turn given to you-how the Lord Jesus, on the very night of his betrayal, took some bread,

And in the same way with the cup, after supper, saying "This cup is the new Covenant made by my blood. Do this, whenever you drink it, in memory of me."

That is why so many among you are weak and ill, and why some are sleeping.

Gifts differ, but the Spirit is the same;

Ways of serving differ, yet the Master is the same;

Results differ, yet the God who brings about every result is in every case the same.

To one is given the power to speak with wisdom through the Spirit; to another the power to speak with knowledge, due to the same Spirit;

To another faith by the same Spirit; to another power to cure diseases by the one Spirit; to another supernatural powers;

All these result from one and the same Spirit, who distributes his gifts to each individually as he wills.

No! Those parts of the body that seem naturally the weaker are indispensable;

As to secure that there should be no disunion in the body, but that the parts should show the same care for one another.

This being so, Brothers, what good shall I do you, if I come to you and speak in 'tongues,' unless my words convey some revelation, or knowledge, or take the form of preaching or teaching?

So, when the whole Church meets, if all present use the gift of 'tongues,' and some men who are without the gift, or who are unbelievers, come in, will not they say that you are mad?

If any of you use the gift of 'tongues,' not more than two, or at the most three, should do so-each speaking in his turn-and some one should interpret them.

But, if some revelation is made to another person as he sits there, the first speaker should stop.

For you can all preach in turn, so that all may learn some lesson and all receive encouragement.

After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of our Brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have gone to their rest.

Now, if it is proclaimed of Christ that he has been raised from the dead, how is it that some of you say that there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead?

Awake to a righteous life, and cease to sin. There are some who have no true knowledge of God. I speak in this way to shame you.

Some one, however, may ask 'How do the dead rise? and in what body will they come?'

All forms of life are not the same; there is one for men, another for beasts, another for birds, and another for fishes.

It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. Sown a mortal body, it rises immortal; sown disfigured, it rises beautiful;

And I shall probably make some stay with you or, perhaps, remain for the winter, so that you may yourselves send me on my way, wherever I may be going.

I do not propose to pay you a visit in passing now, for I hope to stay with you for some time, if the Lord permits.

No one, therefore, should slight him. See him safely on his way to me, for I am expecting him with some of our Brothers.