Has Christ been parcelled out? Was it Paul who was crucified for you? Was it in Paul's name that you were baptized?

It was in weakness and fear and with great trembling that I visited you;

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

Who singles you out, my brother? What do you possess that has not been given you? And if it was given you, why do you boast as if it had been gained, not given?

You may have thousands to superintend you in Christ, but you have not more than one father. It was I who in Christ Jesus became your father by means of the gospel.

Was a man circumcised at the time he was called? Then he is not to efface the marks of it. Has any man been called when he was uncircumcised? Then he is not to get circumcised.

Everyone must remain in the condition of life where he was called.

Brothers, everyone must remain with God in the condition of life where he was called.

Or is he speaking purely for our sakes? Assuredly for our sakes. This word was written for us, because the ploughman needs to plough in hope, and the thresher to thresh in the hope of getting a share in the crop.

and all drank the same supernatural drink (drinking from the supernatural Rock which accompanied them ??and that Rock was Christ),

still with most of them God was not satisfied; they were laid low in the desert.

It all happened to them by way of warning for others, and it was written down for the purpose of instructing us whose lot has been cast in the closing hours of the world.

But if someone tells you, 'This was sacrificial meat,' then do not eat it; you must consider the man who told you, and also take conscience into account ??29 his conscience, I mean, not your own; for why should one's own freedom be called in question by someone else's conscience?

(Man was not made from woman, woman was made from man;

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

for as woman was made from man, so man is now made from woman, while both, like all things, come from God.)

I passed on to you what I received from the Lord himself, namely, that on the night he was betrayed the Lord Jesus took a loaf,

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I argued like a child; now that I am a man, I am done with childish ways.

the gospel by which you are saved ??provided you adhere to my statement of it ??unless indeed your faith was all haphazard.

that he was buried, that he rose on the third day as the scriptures had said,

and that he was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve;

after that, he was seen by over five hundred brothers all at once, the majority of whom survive to this day, though some have died;

after that, he was seen by James, then by all the apostles,

and finally he was seen by myself, by this so-called 'abortion' of an apostle.

But by God's grace I am what I am. The grace he showed me did not go for nothing; no, I have done far more work than all of them ??though it was not I but God's grace at my side.

But it is not so! Christ did rise from the dead, he was the first to be reaped of those who sleep in death.

I ask this favour of you, my brothers. The household of Stephanas, you know, was the first to be reaped in Achaia, and they have laid themselves out to serve the saints.