Therefore, you don't lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus the Messiah to be revealed.

I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius,

After all, no one can lay any other foundation than the one that is already laid, and that is Jesus the Messiah.

Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in the ways of this world, he must become a fool to become really wise.

It is a very small thing to me that I should be examined by you or by any human court. In fact, I don't even evaluate myself.

But now I am writing to you to stop associating with any so-called brother if he is sexually immoral, greedy, an idolater, a slanderer, a drunk, or a robber. You must even stop eating with someone like that.

Keep on running away from sexual immorality. Any other sin that a person commits is outside his body, but the person who sins sexually sins against his own body.

Now concerning virgins, although I do not have any command from the Lord, I will give you my opinion as one who by the Lord's mercy is trustworthy.

Who ever goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat any of its grapes? Or who takes care of a flock and does not drink any of its milk?

But I have not used any of these rights, and I'm not writing this so that they may be applied in my case. I would rather die than let anyone deprive me of my reason for boasting.

Eat anything that is sold in the meat market without raising any question about it on the grounds of conscience,

But if anyone wants to argue about this, we do not have any custom like this, nor do any of God's churches.

If the foot says, "Since I'm not a hand, I'm not part of the body," that does not make it any less a part of the body, does it?

And if the ear says, "Since I'm not an eye, I'm not part of the body," that does not make it any less a part of the body, does it?

If we have set our hopes on the Messiah in this life only, we deserve more pity than any other people.