For I have been informed concerning you, my brethren, by some of Chloe's family, that there are contentions among you.

Now some are puffed up, as if I would not come to you.

And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the spirit of our God.

For though there be some that are called Gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are among the heathen gods many,

But there is not in all men this knowledge: and some with a consciousness of the idol unto this day, eat it as a thing sacrificed to an idol, and so their conscience being weak is defiled.

To the weak I became as the weak, that I might gain the weak: I became all things to all men, that I might by every means save some.

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

Neither let us commit whoredom, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted Him, and were destroyed by serpents: nor murmur,

as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

after that He appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain yet alive, but some are fallen asleep.

Now if it be preached that Christ is risen from the dead, how say some among you, that there is no resurrection of the dead?

Behave soberly, as ye ought to do, and sin not: for some of you have not the knowledge of God; to your shame I speak it.

But some will say, How are the dead raised, and with what body do they come?

For I do not intend to see you now in my way, as I hope to stay some time with you, if the Lord permit.