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Christ has been parceled out by you! It was not Paul who was crucified for you, was it? You were not baptized in Paul's name, were you?

Verse ConceptsDivisions, Contrary ToSchismsBaptised Into ChristChrist Was KilledBaptismdivisiongroups

Yet, when among mature believers we do set forth a wisdom, but a wisdom that does not belong to this world or to the leaders of this world who are passing away;

Verse ConceptsMaturity, SpiritualMiddle AgePhilosophyStrength, HumanThoughtPerfectionPeople Passing AwayThe Present AgeWorldly WisdomNature Of KingsGod Gives WisdomPassing AwayMaturity

Then what is Apollos? Or what is Paul? Mere servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord gave each of us his task.

Verse ConceptsEncouraging Faith In ChristOpportunity

I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but it was God who kept the plants growing.

Verse ConceptsWater For PlantsMetaphorical PlantingGrowingPlanting SeedsSeedsSowing Seedsculture

If the structure which one builds is burned up, he will get no pay; and yet he himself will be saved, but just as one who goes through a fire.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual FailureFire Of JudgementBemalosing a loved oneLosing SomeonePurgatorysmoking

For though you have ten thousand teachers in the Christian life, you certainly could not have many fathers. For it was I myself who became your father through your union with Christ Jesus, which resulted from my telling you the good news.

Verse ConceptsGuardsPaul, Apostle To GentilesNew Birth, The Means OfSpiritual FathersFathers BirthdayparentingDadsSchoolParenting Responsibilities

And yet, you are proud of it, instead of being sorry for it, and seeing to it that the man who has done this be removed from your membership!

Verse ConceptsSelf ConfidenceSorrowArrogance, In The ChurchExcommunicationOthers MourningProud People

For my part, though I have been absent from you in person, I have been present with you in spirit, and so as really present, by the authority of our Lord Jesus, I have already passed judgment upon the man who has done this --

Verse ConceptsBelievers JudgingGone AwayIn Men's PresenceAbsence

So if you have the ordinary cases of life for settlement, do you set up as judges the very men in the church who have no standing?

Verse ConceptsGoing To Church

I ask this to make you blush with shame. Has it come to this, that there is not a single wise man among you who could settle a grievance of one brother against another,

Verse ConceptsBelieversShameWisdom, Human ImportanceBelievers JudgingWise Men In The Church

Or, are you not aware that a man who has to do with a prostitute makes his body one with hers? For God says, "The two shall be physically one."

Verse ConceptsAdam's Relationship With EveAdulterersIntimacyMarriage, Purpose OfOne FleshUnity, God's Goal OfSexual UnionTwo PeoplesexThe BodyRespecting Your Body

For the slave who has been called to union with the Lord is the Lord's freedman; in the same way the freeman who has been called is a slave of Christ.

Verse ConceptsStatusSlavesConsider Your Call To SalvationSlave Or FreeBeing Devoted to GodChristian LibertyReligious FreedomHard WorkslaveryFreedomFree WillBeing Contentchristianityfree

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.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, Examples OfOpinionsReceiving God's MercyGod's OrdersBeing Singlevirginity

and those that mourn as though they did not mourn, and those who are glad as though they were not glad, and those who buy as though they did not own a thing,

Verse ConceptsDo Not MournLack Of Rejoicing

and those who are enjoying the world as though they were not entirely absorbed in it. For the outward order of this world is passing away.

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to the worldRedeeming The TimeAbuse, Of Spiritual ThingsPassing AwayUnworldlinessThings Passing AwayThe World Being TemporaryAbuse

But the father who stands firm in his purpose, without having any necessity for doing so, and he has made the decision in his own heart to keep her single, will do what is right.

Verse ConceptsIntelligenceUnmarriedPositive Thinkingactingsteadfastvirginity

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.

Verse ConceptsGood ActivityNot MarryingMarriage Kjvmatrimonyvirginity

For if somebody sees you, who have an intelligent view of this matter, partaking of a meal in an idol's temple, will he not be emboldened, with his overscrupulous conscience, to eat the food which has been sacrificed to an idol?

Verse ConceptsKnowingFood For Other godsWeaknessEating Meatconscience

My vindication of myself to those who are investigating me is this:

Verse ConceptsInterrogatingMan Defendingcriticism

Or is it Barnabas and I alone who have no right to refrain from working for a living?

Verse ConceptsBarnabasevangelists, ministry ofdisagreements

What soldier ever goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat any of its grapes? Who shepherds a flock and does not drink any of the milk the flock produces?

Verse Conceptsethics, basis ofGrapesMilkSoldiersVineyardPlanting VineyardsPerspective

Do you not know that those who do the work about the temple get their living from the temple, and those who constantly attend on the altar share its offerings?

Verse ConceptsAltarsOfferingsPermitted To Eat OfferingsServingLiveMinistryServing The ChurchWaiting Till Marriageworkingzealotspriests

to men who have no written law, like one without any law, though I am not without God's law but specially under Christ's law, to win the men who have no written law.

Verse ConceptsJustification By FaithThe Law Of ChristWithout The LawStaying Strong And Not Giving UpStaying PositivePositive ThinkingNever Giving UpNot Being Alonelawactingfreeorderflexibilitychrist

Look at the Israelites in their practices. Are not those who eat the sacrifices in spiritual fellowship with the altar?

Verse ConceptsOffering SacrificesSharing Material ThingsPermitted To Eat Offerings

But if someone says to you, "This meat has been offered as a heathen sacrifice," make it your rule not to eat it, for the sake of the man who warned you and for conscience' sake;

Verse ConceptsFeastingFood For Other godsMeat offeringsSacrificeEating Meatconscience

Any man who prays or preaches with anything on his head dishonors his head,

Verse ConceptsVeilsCovering Heads

and any woman who prays or prophesies bareheaded dishonors her head, for it is one and the same thing with having her head shaved.

Verse ConceptsWomenCovering HeadsBare HeadsWoman's PlaceWomen's Roles

It is not that you have no houses to eat and drink in, is it? Or, are you trying to show your contempt for the church of God and trying to humiliate those who have no houses? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? No, I cannot praise you for this.

Verse ConceptsSacrilegeLiving In HousesShaming PeopleEating And DrinkingNot Helping The PoorThe Church UniversalAlcoholic BeveragesChurch Of GodGoing To Churchcommunion

I would like for all of you to speak in ecstasy, but I would rather that you prophesy. The man who speaks with real prophetic insight renders greater service than the man who speaks in ecstasy, unless the latter explains it, so the congregation may receive an uplift.

Verse ConceptsProphecy, In NtBuilding Up The ChurchInterpreting LanguageEach Local ChurchRight DesiresProphecyProphecies concerningLanguageThe church

So if I do not know the meaning of the language, I should be a foreigner to the man who speaks it, and he would be a foreigner to me.

Verse ConceptsBarbariansMeaningReckoned As Foreigners

Therefore, the man who speaks in ecstasy must pray for power to explain what he says.

Verse ConceptsInterpreting LanguageMental Abuse

how is the man who occupies the place of the illiterate to say "Amen" to your thanksgiving? For he does not know what you are saying.

Verse ConceptsAgreement, Before GodAmenNot Understanding Sayings

and if anything is revealed to another who is seated, let the speaker stop.

Verse ConceptsCurbing Speech

and we are found guilty of lying about God, for we have testified that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if indeed the dead are never raised.

Verse ConceptsAre The Dead Raised?Christ Would Risereality

for He has put everything in subjection under His feet. But when He says that everything has been put in subjection to Him, He Himself is evidently excepted who put it all in subjection to Him.

Verse ConceptsGospel, Essence OfThings UnderInteraction Of Father And SonSubject To ChristPutting God First

And when everything has been put in subjection to Him, then the Son Himself will also become subject to Him who has put everything in subjection to Him, so that God may be everything to everybody.

Verse ConceptsJesus Christ, Son Of GodThe Submission Of ChristGod's FullnessInteraction Of Father And SonSubject To GodPutting God FirstGod Turning Bad Things Into Goodeverything

Otherwise, what do those people mean who submit to being baptized on behalf of their dead? If the dead are never raised at all, why do they submit to being baptized on their behalf?

Verse ConceptsBaptism, practice ofAre The Dead Raised?Christian Baptism

Now those who are made of the dust are just like him who was first made of dust, and those who are heavenly are like Him who is from heaven,

Verse ConceptsCreatures From DustLike People By NatureLike ChristBelonging To HeavenChrist And Heaven

When I get there, I will send on, with credentials, the persons whom you approve, to carry your gift of charity to Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsJourneyLettersPeople VisitingPraising Specific People

I beg you to put yourselves under leaders like these, and under anyone who cooperates with you, and labors hard.