and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they were all drinking from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

These things happened to them as examples and were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread,

but our presentable members do not need this. Instead, God has blended together the body, giving greater honor to the lesser member,

It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful.

But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or uninformed person enters, he will be convicted by all, he will be called to account by all.

Now this is what I am saying, brothers and sisters: Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

and perhaps I will stay with you, or even spend the winter, so that you can send me on my journey, wherever I go.

Do not become partners with those who do not believe, for what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

as it is written: “The one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little.”

And even if I am unskilled in speaking, yet I am certainly not so in knowledge. Indeed, we have made this plain to you in everything in every way.

not that there really is another gospel, but there are some who are disturbing you and wanting to distort the gospel of Christ.

I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my nation, and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.

The only thing I want to learn from you is this: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law or by believing what you heard?

But one, the son by the slave woman, was born by natural descent, while the other, the son by the free woman, was born through the promise.

So we must not grow weary in doing good, for in due time we will reap, if we do not give up.

Nevertheless, each one of you must also love his own wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

My aim is to know him, to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings, and to be like him in his death,

but now he has reconciled you by his physical body through death to present you holy, without blemish, and blameless before him –

Having been buried with him in baptism, you also have been raised with him through your faith in the power of God who raised him from the dead.