Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all agree and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be made complete in the same mind and in the same judgment.

Has Christ been divided? Paul was not crucified for you, was he? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

But it is due to Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,

For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he will instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.

Foundations for Living

And I, brothers and sisters, could not speak to you as spiritual people, but only as fleshly, as to infants in Christ.

We are fools on account of Christ, but you are prudent in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are without honor!

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.

For this reason I have sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, and he will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, just as I teach everywhere in every church.

Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed.

Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

For the one who was called in the Lord as a slave, is the Lord’s freed person; likewise the one who was called as free, is Christ’s slave.

Is the cup of blessing which we bless not a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is the bread which we break not a sharing in the body of Christ?

Now you are Christ’s body, and individually parts of it.

The Fact of Christ’s Resurrection

Now I make known to you, brothers and sisters, the gospel which I preached to you, which you also received, in which you also stand,

and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, your faith also is in vain.

Moreover, we are even found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified against God that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised.

and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.

Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

If we have hoped in Christ only in this life, we are of all people most to be pitied.

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, after that those who are Christ’s at His coming,

I affirm, brothers and sisters, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, that I die daily.

My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.

Introduction

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Timothy, To the church of God which is at Corinth with all the saints who are throughout Achaia:

For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ.