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To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be his holy people, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ—their Lord and ours:
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Thanksgiving
I always thank my God for you because of his grace given you in Christ Jesus.
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God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
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A Church Divided Over Leaders
I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in mind and thought.
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Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized in the name of Paul?
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It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption.
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for, “Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
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The Church and Its Leaders
Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are still worldly—mere infants in Christ.
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We are fools for Christ, but you are so wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are honored, we are dishonored!
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Even if you had ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.
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For this reason I have sent to you Timothy, my son whom I love, who is faithful in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus, which agrees with what I teach everywhere in every church.
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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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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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When you sin against them in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
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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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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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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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And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.
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Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost.
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If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.
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But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
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For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.
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But each in turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him.
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For he “has put everything under his feet.” Now when it says that “everything” has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God himself, who put everything under Christ.
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I face death every day—yes, just as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord.
