Look at the people of Israel. Are not those who eat the sacrifices partners in the altar?

No, I mean that what the pagans sacrifice is to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons.

"Everything is lawful," but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is lawful," but not everything builds others up.

Do not seek your own good, but the good of the other person.

But if someone says to you, "This is from a sacrifice," do not eat, because of the one who told you and because of conscience --

I do not mean yours but the other person's. For why is my freedom being judged by another's conscience?

Do not give offense to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God,

just as I also try to please everyone in all things. I do not seek my own benefit, but the benefit of many, so that they may be saved.

For if a woman will not cover her head, she should cut off her hair. But if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, she should cover her head.

For a man should not have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man.

For man did not come from woman, but woman from man.

In any case, in the Lord woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.

Does not nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace for him,

Now in giving the following instruction I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.

Now when you come together at the same place, you are not really eating the Lord's Supper.

Do you not have houses so that you can eat and drink? Or are you trying to show contempt for the church of God by shaming those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I will not praise you for this!

For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread,

But if we examined ourselves, we would not be judged.

But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned with the world.

If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so that when you assemble it does not lead to judgment. I will give directions about other matters when I come.

With regard to spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed.

For in fact the body is not a single member, but many.

If the foot says, "Since I am not a hand, I am not part of the body," it does not lose its membership in the body because of that.

And if the ear says, "Since I am not an eye, I am not part of the body," it does not lose its membership in the body because of that.

The eye cannot say to the hand, "I do not need you," nor in turn can the head say to the foot, "I do not need you."

but our presentable members do not need this. Instead, God has blended together the body, giving greater honor to the lesser member,

Not all are apostles, are they? Not all are prophets, are they? Not all are teachers, are they? Not all perform miracles, do they?

Not all have gifts of healing, do they? Not all speak in tongues, do they? Not all interpret, do they?

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

If I give away everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast, but do not have love, I receive no benefit.

Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up.

It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful.

It is not glad about injustice, but rejoices in the truth.

For the one speaking in a tongue does not speak to people but to God, for no one understands; he is speaking mysteries by the Spirit.

It is the same for you. If you do not speak clearly with your tongue, how will anyone know what is being said? For you will be speaking into the air.

If then I do not know the meaning of a language, I will be a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker a foreigner to me.

Otherwise, if you are praising God with your spirit, how can someone without the gift say "Amen" to your thanksgiving, since he does not know what you are saying?

For you are certainly giving thanks well, but the other person is not strengthened.

Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

It is written in the law: "By people with strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, yet not even in this way will they listen to me," says the Lord.

So then, tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers. Prophecy, however, is not for unbelievers but for believers.

So if the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and unbelievers or uninformed people enter, will they not say that you have lost your minds?

for God is not characterized by disorder but by peace. As in all the churches of the saints,

the women should be silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak. Rather, let them be in submission, as in fact the law says.

If someone does not recognize this, he is not recognized.

So then, brothers and sisters, be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid anyone from speaking in tongues.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain. In fact, I worked harder than all of them -- yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.

And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is futile and your faith is empty.

Also, we are found to be false witnesses about God, because we have testified against God that he raised Christ from the dead, when in reality he did not raise him, if indeed the dead are not raised.

For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.

And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is useless; you are still in your sins.

For he has put everything in subjection under his feet. But when it says "everything" has been put in subjection, it is clear that this does not include the one who put everything in subjection to him.

Otherwise, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, then why are they baptized for them?

If from a human point of view I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what did it benefit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

Do not be deceived: "Bad company corrupts good morals."

Fool! What you sow will not come to life unless it dies.

And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare seed -- perhaps of wheat or something else.

All flesh is not the same: People have one flesh, animals have another, birds and fish another.

However, the spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.

Listen, I will tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed --

So then, dear brothers and sisters, be firm. Do not be moved! Always be outstanding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

On the first day of the week, each of you should set aside some income and save it to the extent that God has blessed you, so that a collection will not have to be made when I come.

For I do not want to see you now in passing, since I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord allows.

With regard to our brother Apollos: I strongly encouraged him to visit you with the other brothers, but it was simply not his intention to come now. He will come when he has the opportunity.