You have rent the Christ in pieces! Was it Paul who was crucified for you? or were you baptized into the Faith of Paul?

My mission from Christ was not to baptize, but to tell the Good News; not, however, in the language of philosophy, lest the cross of the Christ should be robbed of its meaning.

For my own part, Brothers, when I came to you, it was with no display of eloquence or philosophy that I came to tell the hidden purpose of God;

Indeed, when I came among you, I was weak, and full of fears, and in great anxiety.

I planted, and Apollos watered, but it was God who caused the growth.

For who makes any one of you superior to others? And what have you that was not given you? But if you received it as a gift, why do you boast as if you had not?

Though you may have thousands of instructors in the Faith of Christ, yet you have not many fathers. It was I who, through union with Christ Jesus, became your father by means of the Good News.

I have decided-having been present in spirit at your meetings, when the power of the Lord Jesus was with us-

Moreover, you are not your own masters; you were bought, and the price was paid. Therefore, honor God in your bodies.

In any case, a man should continue to live in the condition which the Lord has allotted to him, and in which he was when God called him. This is the rule that I lay down in every Church.

Was a man already circumcised when he was called? Then he should not efface his circumcision. Has a man been called when uncircumcised? Then he should not be circumcised.

Let every one remain in that condition of life in which he was when the Call came to him.

For the man who was a slave when he was called to the master's service is the Master's freed-man; so, too, the man who was free when called is Christ's slave.

You were bought, and the price was paid. Do not let yourselves become slaves to men.

Brothers, let every one remain in the condition in which he was when he was called, in close communion with God.

Or is not is said entirely for our sakes? Surely it was written for our sakes, for the ploughman ought not to plough, nor the thrasher to thrash, without expecting a share of the grain.

Although I was entirely free, yet, to win as many converts as possible, I made myself everyone's slave.

To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win Jews. To those who are subject to Law I became like a man subject to Law-though I was not myself subject to Law-to win those who are subject to Law.

and all drank the same supernatural water, for they used to drink from a supernatural rock which followed them, and that rock was the Christ.

Yet with most of them God was displeased; for they were 'struck down in the desert.'

For it was not man who was taken from woman, but woman who was taken from man.

Besides, man was not created for the sake of woman, but woman for the sake of man.

You know that there was a time when you were Gentiles, going astray after idols that could not speak, just as you happened to be led.

For it was by one Spirit that we were all baptized to form one Body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free men, and were all imbued with one Spirit.

When I was a child, I talked as a child, I felt as a child, I reasoned as a child; now that I am a man, I have done with childish ways.

And by means of which you are being saved. I would remind you of the very words that I used in telling it to you, since you are still holding fast to it, and since it was not in vain that you became believers in Christ.

That he was buried, that on the third day he was raised (as the Scriptures had foretold),

But it is through the love of God that I am what I am, and the love that he showed me has not been wasted. No, I have toiled harder than any of them, and yet it was not I, but the love of God working with me.

Whether, then, it was I or whether it was they, this we proclaim, and this you believed.

The first man was from the dust of the earth; the second man from Heaven.