¹⁶ “No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse.

The Church and Its Leaders

3 Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit^(A) but as people who are still worldly^(B)—mere infants^(C) in Christ. ² I gave you milk, not solid food,^(D) for you were not yet ready for it.^(E) Indeed, you are still not ready.

¹² “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear.^(A)

¹³ And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.^(A) But the greatest of these is love.^(B)

¹⁴ So let my lord go on ahead of his servant, while I move along slowly at the pace of the flocks and herds^(A) before me and the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir.^(B)”