Is the Messiah divided? Paul wasn't crucified for you, was he? You weren't baptized in Paul's name, were you?

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not know God, God was pleased to save those who believe through the nonsense of our preaching.

For while I was with you I resolved to know nothing except Jesus the Messiah, and him crucified.

It was in weakness, fear, and great trembling that I came to you.

Was anyone circumcised when he was called? He should not try to change that. Was anyone uncircumcised when he was called? He should not get circumcised.

Everyone should stay in the same condition in which he was called.

Brothers, everyone should stay in the same condition in which he was called by God.

Isn't he really speaking for our benefit? Yes, this was written for our benefit, because the one who plows should plow in hope, and the one who threshes should thresh in hope of sharing in the crop.

and drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank from the spiritual rock that went with them. That rock was the Messiah.

But God wasn't pleased with most of those people, and so they were struck down in the wilderness.

However, if someone says to you, "This was offered as a sacrifice," don't eat it, both out of consideration for the one who told you and also for the sake of conscience.

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

For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you how the Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took a loaf of bread,

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, and reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up my childish ways.

and by which you are also being saved if you hold firmly to the message I proclaimed to you unless, of course, your faith was worthless.

he was buried, he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures and is still alive!

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

After that, he was seen by more than 500 brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have died.

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

and finally he was seen by me, as though I were born abnormally late.

But by God's grace I am what I am, and his grace shown to me was not wasted. Instead, I worked harder than all the others not I, of course, but God's grace that was with me.

So, whether it was I or the others, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.

Just as we have borne the likeness of the man who was made from dust, we will also bear the likeness of the man from heaven.

Now concerning our brother Apollos, I strongly urged him to visit you with the other brothers, but he was not inclined to do so just now. However, he will visit you when the time is right.

I am glad that Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus came here, because what was lacking they have supplied through you.