whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things about to be -- all are yours,

what do ye wish? with a rod shall I come unto you, or in love, with a spirit also of meekness?

have ye not known that we shall judge messengers? why not then the things of life?

of the things of life, indeed, then, if ye may have judgment, those despised in the assembly -- these cause ye to sit;

A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will -- only in the Lord;

And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up;

and if any one doth love God, this one hath been known by Him.

so also did the Lord direct to those proclaiming the good news: of the good news to live.

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;

and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

The love doth never fail; and whether there be prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;

and now there doth remain faith, hope, love -- these three; and the greatest of these is love.

Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy,

yet the things without life giving sound -- whether pipe or harp -- if a difference in the sounds they may not give, how shall be known that which is piped or that which is harped?

if in this life we have hope in Christ only, of all men we are most to be pitied.

so also it hath been written, 'The first man Adam became a living creature,' the last Adam is for a life-giving spirit,

let all your things be done in love.

if any one doth not love the Lord Jesus Christ -- let him be anathema! The Lord hath come!

my love is with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.