⁶ Now, brothers and sisters, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the meaning of the saying, “Do not go beyond what is written.”^(A) Then you will not be puffed up in being a follower of one of us over against the other.^(B)

¹⁸ Some of you have become arrogant,^(A) as if I were not coming to you.^{(B) 19} But I will come to you very soon,^(C) if the Lord is willing,^(D) and then I will find out not only how these arrogant people are talking, but what power they have.

² And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have gone into mourning^(A) and have put out of your fellowship^(B) the man who has been doing this?

Concerning Food Sacrificed to Idols

8 Now about food sacrificed to idols:^(A) We know that “We all possess knowledge.”^(B) But knowledge puffs up while love builds up.