Which none of the rulers of this world knew; for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit; for they are foolishness to him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

God forbid. Know ye not, that he who is joined to an harlot is one body? For they two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

But to the unmarried and the widows I say, It is good for them, if they remain even as I.

But if they have not power over themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

For the unbelieving husband hath been sanctified by the wife; and the unbelieving wife hath been sanctified by the husband. Else were your children unclean; but now they are holy.

But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that even they that have wives, be as if they had none: And they that weep, as if they wept not;

and they that rejoice, as if they rejoiced not;

and they that buy, as if they possessed not; And they that use this world, as not abusing it; for the fashion of this world passeth away: Now I would have you without carefulness.

Know ye not, that they who are employed about holy things, are fed out of the temple? And they who wait at the altar, are partakers with the altar.

So also hath the Lord ordained, that they who preach the gospel, should live of the gospel.

Know ye not, that they who run in the race, all run, but one receiveth the prize? so run that ye may obtain.

And every one that contendeth, is temperate in all things: and they indeed, to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

And all drank the same spiritual drink (for they drank out of the spiritual rock which followed them; and that rock was Christ) Yet, with the most of them, God was not well-pleased;

for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

Now these things were for our example, that we might not desire evil things, as they desired.

Now all these things happened to them for examples, and they are written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages are come.

Consider Israel after the flesh. Are not they who eat of the sacrifices, partakers of the altar?

But that what the heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God. Now I would not that ye should be partakers with devils.

Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but that of many that they may be saved.

For as the body is one, and yet hath many members, but all the members of the body, many as they are, are one body, so is Christ.

Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

So inanimate things which give a sound, whether pipe or harp, unless they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?

It is written in the law, In foreign tongues and with foreign lips will I speak to this people; and neither so will they hear me, saith the Lord.

Yet if the whole church be met together, and all speak with unknown tongues, and there come in ignorant persons or unbelievers, will they not say, that ye are mad?

And if they desire to learn any thing, let them ask their own husbands at home: for it is indecent for a woman to speak in the assembly.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain, but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

Whether therefore I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

Then also they who sleep in Christ are perished.

But every one in his own order: Christ the first-fruit, afterward they who are Christ's, at his coming.

Else what shall they do, who are baptized for the dead? If the dead rise not at all, why are they then baptized for them?

But some one will say, How are the dead raised? And with what body do they come?

As was the earthy, such are they also that are earthy, and as was the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

And if it be proper, that I also should go, they shall go with me.

And I beseech you, brethren, as ye know the houshold of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to serve the saints,

I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus: for they have supplied what was wanting on your part.

For they have refreshed my spirit and yours; such therefore acknowledge.