all of which verifies the testimony we bore to Christ when we were with you.

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

so that no one can say you were baptized in my name.

I fed you with milk, not with solid food. You were not able for solid food, and you are not able even now;

Certain individuals have got puffed up, have they, as if I were not coming myself?

In my letter I wrote that you were not to associate with the immoral.

I did not mean you were literally to avoid contact with the immoral in this world, with the lustful and the thievish, or with idolaters; in that case you would have to leave the world altogether.

Some of you were once like that; but you washed yourselves clean, you were consecrated, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

you were bought for a price; then glorify God with your body.

You were a slave when you were called? Never mind. Of course, if you do find it possible to get free, you had better avail yourself of the opportunity.

(for you were bought for a price; you must not turn slaves to any man).

let mourners live as if they were not mourning, let the joyful live as if they had no joy, let buyers live as if they had no hold on their goods,

let those who mix in the world live as if they were not engrossed in it, for the present phase of things is passing away.

so the Lord's instructions were that those who proclaim the gospel are to get their living by the gospel?

all were baptized into Moses by the cloud and by the sea,

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

You know when you were pagans, how your impulses led you to dumb idols;

If the foot were to say, 'Because I am not the hand, I do not belong to the body,' that does not make it no part of the body.

If the ear were to say, 'Because I am not the eye, I do not belong to the body,' that does not make it no part of the body.

If the body were all eye, where would hearing be? If the body were all ear, where would smell be?

Suppose now I were to come to you speaking with 'tongues,' my brothers; what good could I do you, unless I had some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching to lay before you?