¹⁸ For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.

³ for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men?

¹⁰ Now I beg you, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

¹¹ For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe's household, that there are contentions among you.

¹² Now I mean this, that each one of you says, "I follow Paul," "I follow Apollos," "I follow Cephas," and, "I follow Christ."

¹ It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father's wife.

¹ Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?