I thank my God always for you because of the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus,

It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,

But the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

each man's work will become evident; for the day will show it, because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man's work.

For, I think that God has exhibited us apostles last of all, like men condemned to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

But because of immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

Do not deprive one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Or is he speaking altogether for our sake? Yes, for our sake it was written, because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the crops.

Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.

If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks?

I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold firmly to the traditions, just as I delivered them to you.

Therefore the woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.

But in the following instructions, I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.

If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason be any less a part of the body.

And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason be any less a part of the body.

For I am the least of the apostles, and not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

More than that, we are even found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified against God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised.

I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus, because they have supplied what was lacking on your part.