I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus,

even as the testimony concerning Christ was confirmed in you,

Has Christ been divided? Paul was not crucified for you, was he? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was well-pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.

I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling,

I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth.

According to the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each man must be careful how he builds on it.

Was any man called when he was already circumcised? He is not to become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? He is not to be circumcised.

Each man must remain in that condition in which he was called.

For he who was called in the Lord while a slave, is the Lord’s freedman; likewise he who was called while free, is Christ’s slave.

Brethren, each one is to remain with God in that condition in which he was called.

Or is He speaking altogether for our sake? Yes, for our sake it was written, because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the crops.

and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ.

Nevertheless, with most of them God was not well-pleased; for they were laid low in the wilderness.

for indeed man was not created for the woman’s sake, but woman for the man’s sake.

For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which He was betrayed took bread;

When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.

Was it from you that the word of God first went forth? Or has it come to you only?

and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.

But concerning Apollos our brother, I encouraged him greatly to come to you with the brethren; and it was not at all his desire to come now, but he will come when he has opportunity.

I rejoice over the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus, because they have supplied what was lacking on your part.