To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

that you were enriched in everything by Him in all utterance and all knowledge,

Sectarianism Is Sin

Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one.

Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours:

whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or things present or things to come—all are yours.

being defamed, we entreat. We have been made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.

Glorify God in Body and Spirit

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

For I wish that all men were even as I myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that.

Live as You Are Called

But as God has distributed to each one, as the Lord has called each one, so let him walk. And so I ordain in all the churches.

Be Sensitive to Conscience

Now concerning things offered to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.

yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.

If others are partakers of this right over you, are we not even more? Nevertheless we have not used this right, but endure all things lest we hinder the gospel of Christ.

Serving All Men

For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win the more;

to the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

Striving for a Crown

Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it.

And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown.

Old Testament Examples

Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea,

all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,

all ate the same spiritual food,

and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.

Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.

For we, though many, are one bread and one body; for we all partake of that one bread.