Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection.

And if children, then heirs (namely, heirs of God and also fellow heirs with Christ) – if indeed we suffer with him so we may also be glorified with him.

For I consider that our present sufferings cannot even be compared to the glory that will be revealed to us.

As it is written, “For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

But we who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and not just please ourselves.

Now I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a servant of the church in Cenchrea,

Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you; so do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my compatriots.

For members of Chloe’s household have made it clear to me, my brothers and sisters, that there are quarrels among you.

For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will thwart the cleverness of the intelligent.”

My conversation and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to advise him? But we have the mind of Christ.

So, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.

To the unmarried and widows I say that it is best for them to remain as I am.

To the married I give this command – not I, but the Lord – a wife should not divorce a husband

These things happened as examples for us, so that we will not crave evil things as they did.

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

If anyone intends to quarrel about this, we have no other practice, nor do the churches of God.

For in the first place, when you come together as a church I hear there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.