I am always thanking God for you, for the spiritual blessing given you by God through union with Christ Jesus;

and my language and the message I preached were not adorned with pleasing words of worldly wisdom, but they were attended with proof and power given by the Spirit,

Now we have not received the spirit that belongs to the world but the Spirit that comes from God, that we may get an insight into the blessings God has graciously given us.

As a skilled architect, in accordance with God's unmerited favor given to me, I laid a foundation, and now another is building upon it. But every builder must be careful how he builds upon it;

I do not write this to make you blush with shame but to give you counsel as my dear children.

The husband must always give his wife what is due her, and the wife too must do so for her husband.

To the people already married I give this instruction -- no, not I but the Lord -- that a wife is not to leave her husband.

About unmarried women I have no command from the Lord, but I will give you my opinion as of one who is trustworthy, since I have had mercy shown me by the Lord.

And so the man who gives his daughter in marriage does what is right, and yet the man who does not do so does even better.

If I give thanks and thus partake of food, why am I to be blamed for that for which I give thanks?

but that it is a woman's glory to do so? For her hair is given her for a covering.

and gave thanks for it and broke it and said, "This is my body which is given for you. Do this in memory of me."

To each of us is given a special spiritual illumination for the common good.

To one, wise speech is given by the Spirit; to another, by the same Spirit, intelligent speech is given;

If I should dole out everything I have for charity, and give my body up to torture in mere boasting pride, but have no love, I get from it no good at all.

It bears up under anything; it exercises faith in everything; it keeps up hope in everything; it gives us power to endure in anything.

Even inanimate things, like the flute or the harp, may give out sounds, but if there is no difference in the notes, how can the tune that is played on the flute or the harp be told?

What is my conclusion then? I will certainly pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind in action too. I will certainly sing with my spirit, but I will sing with my mind in action too. For if you give thanks with your spirit only,

You are, indeed, doing right to give thanks, but your neighbor is not built up.

Women must keep quiet in the churches, for no permission is given them to speak. On the contrary, they must take a subordinate place, just as the law says.

but God gives it just the body He sees fit, even each kind of seed its own body.

Now sin gives death its sting, and the law gives sin its power.

But thank God! He gives us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.