1 Corinthians

Chapter 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 When the Gospel reached the Corinthians through Paul and they received the Spirit, they were overcome by an arrogant conceit because of the gracious gifts of the Spirit. And each of them began to try to attract his neighbor to himself. As soon as the teacher acquired a student, he immediately hastened to baptize him, so that no one else would warn him by baptism and call him by his name. Although these people preached a new teaching, they preferred the old way of behavior. True, the sects differed in vows, so that the schools of Plato and Aristotle did not have such vows, but both of them retained the same dissent. So, among their leaders and teachers there was one Jew, and he, magnifying himself over his comrades, indulged in pride; another was distinguished by wisdom; another was rich and gave generous alms. One was gifted with prophecy, another with a kind of tongues, a third with the interpretation of tongues, and another excelled the other in that he suffered persecution and torment for the Gospel. And while each of these teachers arrogantly boasted of what he had, their students were even more exalted than they were by the boasting of their teachers. Therefore the apostle humbly wrote to them, saying: You might be interested in: