So neither the planter nor the waterer counts for anything, but only God who makes the plants grow.

Now, brothers, for your benefit I have applied all this only to Apollos and myself, by using us as illustrations to teach you the old lesson, "Never go beyond the letter," and to keep any of you from boasting of one teacher at the expense of another.

Only, everyone must continue in the station which the Lord has appointed for him, and in which he was when God's call came to him. This is the rule I make in all the churches.

Or is it only Barnabas and I that have no right to give up working for a living?

Am I saying only what men say? Does not the Law say so too?

Do you not know that in a race the runners all compete, but only one wins the prize? That is the way you must run, so as to win.

A man should examine himself, and only when he has done so should he eat any of the bread or drink from the cup.

I will show you a far better way. If I can speak the languages of men and even of angels, but have no love, I am only a noisy gong or a clashing cymbal.

It is not happy over injustice, it is only happy with truth.

Did God's message start from you Corinthians? Or are you the only people it has reached?