001:006 Thus my testimony as to the Christ has been confirmed
in your experience,
001:007 so that there is no gift of God in which you consciously come short while patiently waiting for the reappearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
001:008 who will also keep you stedfast to the very End, so that you will be free from reproach on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
001:009 God is ever true to His promises, and it was by Him that you were, one and all, called into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ, our Lord.
001:010 Now I entreat you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to cultivate a spirit of harmony—all of you—and that there be no divisions among you, but rather a perfect union through your having one mind and one judgement.
001:011 For I have been distinctly informed, my brethren, about you by Chloe's people, that there are dissensions among you.
001:012 What I mean is that each of you is a partisan. One man says "I belong to Paul;" another "I belong to Apollos;" a third "I belong to Peter;" a fourth "I belong to Christ."
001:013 Is the Christ in fragments? Is it Paul who was crucified on
your behalf? Or were you baptized to be Paul's adherents?
001:014 I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except
Crispus and Gaius—
001:015 for fear people should say that you were baptized to
be my adherents.