It is actually reported [everywhere] that there is sexual immorality among you, a kind of immorality that is condemned even among the [unbelieving] Gentiles: that someone has [an intimate relationship with] his father’s wife.

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.

By sinning against the brotherhood in this way and wounding their weaker consciences, you are sinning against Christ.

And in this they became a warning to us, to teach us not to be eager, as they were eager, in pursuit of what is evil.

But much rather, the members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary;

But you should be eager for the greater gifts. And now I will show you a way that is beyond comparison.

always slow to expose, always eager to believe the best, always hopeful, always patient.

Be eager in your pursuit of this Love, and be earnestly ambitious for spiritual gifts, but let it be chiefly so in order that you may prophesy.

Inanimate instruments, such as the flute or the harp, may give a sound, but if no intervals occur in their music, how can one make out the air that is being played either on flute or on harp?

So it is with you, since you are so very eager to have spiritual gifts and manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in ways that will build up the church [spiritually].

Therefore, my brothers, be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in other languages.

Then [i.e., at Christ's return] the end [of the world] will occur, when He will turn over the kingdom to God, the Father, after He has abolished all [hostile] dominion, authority and power.