God can be depended on, and it was he who called you to this fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Christ has been divided up! But was it Paul who was crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

but we proclaim a Christ who was crucified??n idea that is revolting to Jews and absurd to the heathen,

But it was what the world calls foolish that God chose to put the wise to shame with, and it was what the world calls weak that God chose to shame its strength with,

and it was what the world calls low and insignificant and unreal that God chose to nullify its realities,

for I resolved, while I was with you, to forget everything but Jesus Christ and his crucifixion.

I did the planting, Apollos the watering, but it was God who made the plants grow.

What I meant was that you are not to associate with anyone who is supposed to be a Christian brother, and yet is immoral or greedy or idolatrous or abusive or drunken or grasping??ith such a person you must not even eat.

Only, everyone must continue in the station which the Lord has appointed for him, and in which he was when God's call came to him. This is the rule I make in all the churches.

If a man was circumcised when he was called, he must not try to alter it. If a man was uncircumcised when he was called, he must not have himself circumcised.

Everyone ought to remain in the station in which he was called.

Brothers, everyone must remain in fellowship with God in the station in which he was called.

For supposing there are so-called gods in heaven or on earth??nd indeed there are plenty of such gods and lords??6 yet for us there is just one God, the Father, who is the source of all things, and for whom we live, and just one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom everything was made and through whom we live.

Is he not clearly speaking in our interests? Of course this law was written in our interests, because the plowman ought to plow, and the thresher to thresh, in the expectation of sharing in the crop.

If it was we who sowed the spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?

and drank the same supernatural drink??for they used to drink from a supernatural rock which attended them, and the rock was really Christ??5 still most of them disappointed God, for they were struck down in the desert.

For man was not made from woman, but woman from man,

and man was not created for woman, but woman was for man.

For just as woman was made from man, man is born of woman, and both like everything else really come from God.

For I myself received from the Lord the account that I passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus the night he was betrayed took some bread

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put aside my childish ways.

that he was buried, that on the third day he was raised from the dead, as the Scriptures foretold,

and that he was seen by Cephas, and then by the Twelve.

After that he was seen by more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, although some of them have fallen asleep.

Then he was seen by James, then by all the apostles,

and finally he was seen by me also, as though I were born at the wrong time.

But by God's favor I have become what I am, and the favor he showed me has not gone for nothing, but I have worked harder than any of them, although it was not really I but the favor God showed me.

But whether it was I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.

Now if what we preach about Christ is that he was raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead?

If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ was not raised,

and if Christ was not raised, there is nothing in our message; there is nothing in our faith either,

For if the dead are never raised, Christ was not raised;

and if Christ was not raised, your faith is a delusion; you are still under the control of your sins.

But the truth is, Christ was raised from the dead, the first to be raised of those who have fallen asleep.

For since it was through a man that we have death, it is through a man also that we have the raising of the dead.

Those who are of the earth are like him who was of the earth, and those who are of heaven are like him who is from heaven,

Now I urge you, brothers??ou know that the family of Stephanas was the first to be converted in Greece, and that they have devoted themselves to the service of God's people??16 I want you to enlist under such leaders, and under anyone who joins with you and works hard.