² To the church of God^(A) in Corinth,^(B) to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called^(C) to be his holy people, together with all those everywhere who call on the name^(D) of our Lord Jesus Christ—their Lord and ours:

³² Do not cause anyone to stumble,^(A) whether Jews, Greeks or the church of God^(B)—

¹⁶ If anyone wants to be contentious about this, we have no other practice—nor do the churches of God.^(A)

⁹ For I am the least of the apostles^(A) and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted^(B) the church of God.^(C)