f our God and Father.

I solemnly charge you in the name of the Lord to have this letter read
aloud to all the brothers. The love of our Lord Jesus Christ be with
you.

PAUL'S WORK AT CORINTH

And Paul left the place and went to the home of Titius Justus, who
worshipped God, whose house was next to the synagogue. Crispus, the
president of the synagogue, and all his family, believed in the Lord;
and many of the Corinthians when they heard Paul, believed and were
baptized. One night the Lord said to Paul in a vision, "Do not be
afraid, but speak and do not stop, for I am with you and no one shall
harm you; I have many followers in this city." So Paul lived there a
year and a half and taught them the word of God.

But when Gallio was governor of Greece, the Jews joined in an attack on
Paul and brought him before the court on the charge that he led people
to worship God contrary to the law. But just as Paul was about to speak,
Gallio said to the Jews, "If it were something about wrong-doing or a
serious crime, there would be some reason for my listening to you, O
Jews; but if these are only questions about names and your own law, take
care of them yourselves. I do not wish to be a judge of matters like
these." And he drove them out of the court. Then all the people caught
hold of Sosthenes, the president of the synagogue, and beat him in front
of the court; but Gallio paid no attention to these things. Paul, after
staying some time longer in Corinth, said good-by to the brothers and
with Priscilla and Aquila, sailed for Syria.

PAUL WRITES TO HIS FRIENDS IN CORINTH

Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and
brother Sosthenes to the church of God at Corinth.

I thank God continually for the blessing which he has given you through
Jesus Christ. Through him you have been so richly and fully gifted with
every kind of speech and knowledge that you have proved the truth of
the testimony which I bore to Christ when I was with you.

Brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ I beg of you all to agree
in your statement of faith. There must be no quarrels among you, but you
must be one both in your way of thinking and in your purpose. For I have
been told, brothers, by the members of Chloe's household, that there are
quarrels among you.

Avoid all impurity! Every other sin that a man commits is outside the
body, but the impure man sins against his own body. Do you not know that
your body