The Apostle commences the Epistle with the usual form of Apostolical salutation (verses 1, 2, 3). In the next place, he congratulates the Corinthians upon the manifold spiritual blessings conferred on them, the glory of which is to be referred to God, their bountiful author and dispenser, who will also bring these gifts to a happy issue (4–9). He implores of them to heal the schism, of the existence of which amongst them he had been informed (10–12). He shows the consequences of