Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.

Sexual Immorality Rebuked

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and sexual immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, namely, that someone has his father’s wife.

yet for us there is only one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him.

Avoid Israel’s Mistakes

For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our fathers were all under the cloud and they all passed through the sea;

then comes the end, when He hands over the kingdom to our God and Father, when He has abolished all rule and all authority and power.

For He has put all things in subjection under His feet. But when He says, “All things are put in subjection,” it is clear that this excludes the Father who put all things in subjection to Him.