for you are stillfleshly.For sincethere is jealousyand strifeamongyou, are you not fleshly,and are you not walkinglikemere men?
But like Adamthey have transgressedthe covenant;Therethey have dealttreacherouslyagainst Me.
Let us behaveproperlyas in the day,not in carousingand drunkenness,not in sexual promiscuityand sensuality,not in strifeand jealousy.
NowI exhortyou, brethren,by the nameof our LordJesusChrist,that you allagreeand that there be nodivisionsamongyou, but that you be made completein the samemindand in the samejudgment.
For I have been informedconcerningyou, my brethren,by Chloe's[people], that there are quarrelsamongyou.
For, in the firstplace, when you come togetheras a church,I hearthat divisionsexistamongyou; and in partI believeit.
For whenonesays,"I amof Paul,"and another,"I am of Apollos,"are you not [mere] men?
For I am afraidthat perhapswhen I comeI may findyou to be not whatI wishand may be foundby you to be not whatyou wish;that perhaps[there will be] strife,jealousy,angry tempers,disputes,slanders,gossip,arrogance,disturbances;
But ifyou biteand devouroneanother,take carethat you are not consumedby one another.
For we alsooncewere foolishourselves,disobedient,deceived,enslavedto variouslustsand pleasures,spending our lifein maliceand envy,hateful,hatingone another.
For wherejealousyand selfish ambitionexist, thereis disorderand everyevilthing.
soas to livethe restof the timein the fleshno longerfor the lustsof men,but for the willof God.
