Think about the circumstances of your call, brothers and sisters. Not many were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were born to a privileged position.

For though you may have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, because I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

If after all there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords),

Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all share the one bread.

just as I also try to please everyone in all things. I do not seek my own benefit, but the benefit of many, so that they may be saved.

That is why many of you are weak and sick, and quite a few are dead.

For just as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body -- though many -- are one body, so too is Christ.

For in fact the body is not a single member, but many.

So now there are many members, but one body.

There are probably many kinds of languages in the world, and none is without meaning.

because a door of great opportunity stands wide open for me, but there are many opponents.