And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.

And I came to you in weakness and in fear and with much trembling,

But we give the news of the secret wisdom of God, which he had kept in store before the world came into existence, for our glory;

but, according as it hath been written, 'What eye did not see, and ear did not hear, and upon the heart of man came not up, what God did prepare for those loving Him -- '

Who is Apollos, anyhow? Or who is Paul? They're merely servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord gave to each of us his task.

Only, everyone must lead the lot assigned him by the Lord; he must go on living the life in which God's call came to him. (Such is the rule I lay down for all the churches).

Let every one remain in that condition of life in which he was when the Call came to him.

yet for us there is only one God, the Father, from whom everything came into being and for whom we live. And there is only one Lord, Jesus the Messiah, through whom everything came into being and through whom we live.

And the same holy drink: for they all took of the water from the holy rock which came after them: and the rock was Christ.

But with most of them God was not pleased: for they came to their end in the waste land.

Again, let us not give way to the desires of the flesh, as some of them did, of whom twenty-three thousand came to their end in one day.

And let us not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did, and came to their death by snakes.

Now all these things happened to those men for examples, and they were written for our admonition, to whom the ends of the ages came.

For man did not come from woman, but woman came from man.

For just as woman came from man, so man comes through woman, and all things come from God.

What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?

And he was put in the place of the dead; and on the third day he came back from the dead, as it says in the Writings;

and by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace that is towards me came not in vain, but more abundantly than they all did I labour, yet not I, but the grace of God that is with me;

But whether it is I or they, this is the way we preach and the way that you came to believe.

Now if the good news says that Christ came back from the dead, how do some of you say that there is no coming back from the dead?

Yes, and we are seen to be false witnesses of God; because we gave witness of God that by his power Christ came again from the dead: which is not true if there is no coming back from the dead.

For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.

However, the spiritual [the immortal life] is not first, but the physical [the mortal life]; then the spiritual.

The first man came from the dust of the earth; the second man came from heaven.

Just as earthly people are like the man who came from dust; so heavenly people are like the man who came from heaven.

And just as we [now] appear [in both a physical and spiritual body] like the man who came from dust [i.e., Adam]; we will also [someday] appear [in both a physical(?) and spiritual body] like the man who came from heaven [i.e., Christ].

I am glad that Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus came here, because what was lacking they have supplied through you.