and there is no gift that you lack even while you are waiting for our Lord Jesus Christ to reappear,

Yet there is a wisdom that we impart when we are with people who have a mature faith, but it is not what this world calls wisdom, nor what the authorities of this world, doomed as they are to pass away, would call so.

But, as the Scripture says, there are things "Which no eye ever saw and no ear ever heard, And never occurred to the human mind, Which God has provided for those who love him."

for you are still worldly. For when there are still jealousy and quarrels among you, are you not worldly and living on a merely human level?

I ask it to shame you. Has it come to this, that there is not a single wise man among you who could settle a disagreement between one brother and another,

But there is so much immorality that every man had better have a wife of his own, and every woman a husband of her own.

But if you do marry, there is no sin in that. And if a girl marries, it is no sin. But those who marry will have worldly trouble, which I would like to spare you.

As to eating things, then, that have been offered to idols, we all know that no idol has any real existence, and that there is no God but one.

For supposing there are so-called gods in heaven or on earth??nd indeed there are plenty of such gods and lords??6 yet for us there is just one God, the Father, who is the source of all things, and for whom we live, and just one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom everything was made and through whom we live.

Because there is one loaf, we, many as we are, are one body, for we all share the one loaf.

What am I saying then? That there is any such thing as being offered to an idol, or any such thing as an idol?

Doubtless there must be parties among you, if those who are right are to be recognized among you.

As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

that there is no clash in the body, but its parts all alike care for one another.

Love will never die out. If there is inspired preaching, it will pass away. If there is ecstatic speaking, it will cease. If there is knowledge, it will pass away.

Even inanimate things, like the flute or the harp, may produce sound, but if there is no difference in the notes, how can you tell what is being played?

There are probably ever so many different languages in the world, each with its own meaning.

If there is any ecstatic speaking, let it be limited to two or three people at the most, and have one speak at a time and someone explain what he says.

But if there is no one to explain it, have him keep quiet in church, and talk to himself and to God.

Now if what we preach about Christ is that he was raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead?

If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ was not raised,

and if Christ was not raised, there is nothing in our message; there is nothing in our faith either,

There are heavenly bodies, and there are earthly bodies, but the beauty of the heavenly bodies is of one kind, and the beauty of the earthly bodies is of another.

It is a physical body that is sown, it is a spiritual body that is raised. If there is a physical body, there is a spiritual body also.