If any one's work is burnt up, he will suffer the loss of it; yet he will himself be rescued, but only, as it were, by passing through the fire.

But some of you have been puffed up through getting the idea that I am not coming to Corinth.

and as God by His power raised the Master to life, so He will also raise us up.

those who weep as though they did not weep, those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, those who buy as though they did not possess,

Now as to things which have been sacrificed to idols. This is a subject which we already understand--because we all have knowledge of it. Knowledge, however, tends to make people conceited; it is love that builds us up.

Or again, is it only Barnabas and myself who are not at liberty to give up working with our hands?

And you must not be worshippers of idols, as some of them were. For it is written, "The People sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to dance."

Everything is allowable, but not everything is profitable. Everything is allowable, but everything does not build others up.

But it was God who built up the body, and bestowed more abundant honor on the part that felt the need,

And if I distribute all my possessions to the poor, and give up my body to be burned, but am destitute of Love, it profits me nothing.

What then, brethren? Whenever you assemble, there is not one of you who is not ready either with a song of praise, a sermon, a revelation, a 'tongue,' or an interpretation. Let everything be done with a view to the building up of faith and character.

But when this perishable nature has put on what is imperishable, and this mortality has put on immortality, then will the words of Scripture be fulfilled, "Death has been swallowed up in victory."

On the first day of every week let each of you put on one side and store up at his home whatever gain has been granted to him; so that whenever I come, there may then be no collections going on.