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Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
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And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
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Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!
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For the one who was a slave when called to faith in the Lord is the Lord’s freed person; similarly, the one who was free when called is Christ’s slave.
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yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.
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So this weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.
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When you sin against them in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
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If others have this right of support from you, shouldn’t we have it all the more? But we did not use this right. On the contrary, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ.
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To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law), so as to win those not having the law.
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and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.
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We should not test Christ, as some of them did—and were killed by snakes.
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Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ?
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Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ.
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But I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
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For those who eat and drink without discerning the body of Christ eat and drink judgment on themselves.
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Unity and Diversity in the Body
Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ.
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Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.
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The Resurrection of Christ
Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand.
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For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
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The Resurrection of the Dead
But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
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If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.
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And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.
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More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead. But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised.
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For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either.
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And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.
