For consider your call, brethren; not many of you were wise according to fleshly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.

For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many "gods" and many "lords"),

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so it is with Christ.

After that he appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.