Still, though planter and waterer are on the same level, each will get his own wage for the special work that he has done.

Some of you were once like that; but you washed yourselves clean, you were consecrated, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

The husband must give the wife her conjugal dues, and the wife in the same way must give her husband his;

the wife cannot do as she pleases with her body ??her husband has power, and in the same way the husband cannot do as he pleases with his body ??his wife has power.

Of course, if you are actually married, there is no sin in that; and if a maid marries, there is no sin in that. (At the same time those who marry will have outward trouble ??and I would spare you that.)

At the same time, if any man considers he is not behaving properly to the maid who is his spiritual bride, if his passions are strong and if it must be so, then let him do what he wants ??let them be married; it is no sin for him.

Whoever imagines he has attained to some degree of knowledge, does not possess the true knowledge yet;

But remember, it is not everyone who has this 'knowledge.' Some who have hitherto been accustomed to idols eat the food as food which has been really offered to an idol, and so their weaker conscience is contaminated.

Human arguments, you say? But does not Scripture urge the very same?

to the weak I have become as weak myself, to win over the weak. To all men I have become all things, to save some by all and every means.

all ate the same supernatural food,

and all drank the same supernatural drink (drinking from the supernatural Rock which accompanied them ??and that Rock was Christ),

And you must not be idolaters, like some of them; as it is written, the people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to make sport.

Nor must we commit immorality, as some of them did ??and in a single day twenty-three thousand of them fell.

Nor must we presume upon the Lord as some of them did ??only to be destroyed by serpents.

And you must not murmur, as some of them did ??only to be destroyed by the destroying angel.

In the same way he took the cup after supper, saying, 'This cup means the new covenant ratified by my blood; as often as you drink it, do it in memory of me.'

There are varieties of talents, but the same Spirit;

varieties of service, but the same Lord;

varieties of effects, but the same God who effects everything in everyone.

One man is granted words of wisdom by the Spirit, another words of knowledge by the same Spirit;

one man in the same Spirit has the gift of faith, another in the one Spirit has gifts of healing;

But all these effects are produced by one and the same Spirit, apportioning them severally to each individual as he pleases.

Suppose now I were to come to you speaking with 'tongues,' my brothers; what good could I do you, unless I had some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching to lay before you?

Well, it is the same with yourselves. Unless your tongue utters language that is readily understood, how can people make out what you say? You will be pouring words into the empty air!

Whereas, if everybody prophesies, and some unbeliever or outsider comes in, he is exposed by all, brought to book by all;

To sum up, my brothers. Set your heart on the prophetic gift, and do not put any check upon speaking in 'tongues';

after that, he was seen by over five hundred brothers all at once, the majority of whom survive to this day, though some have died;

Get back to your sober senses and avoid sin, for some of you ??and I say this to your shame ??some of you are insensible to God.

And what you sow is not the body that is to be; it is a mere grain of wheat, for example, or some other seed.

Flesh is not all the same; there is human flesh, there is flesh of beasts, flesh of birds, and flesh of fish.

With regard to the collection for the saints, you must carry out the same arrangements as I made for the churches of Galatia.

On the first day of the week let each of you put aside a sum from his weekly gains, so that the money may not have to be collected when I come.

if the sum makes it worth my while to go too, they shall accompany me.

The chances are, I shall spend some time with you, possibly even pass the winter with you, so that you may speed me forward on any journey that lies before me.

I do not care about seeing you at this moment merely in the by-going; my hope is to stay among you for some time, with the Lord's permission.