because you have in everything been richly blessed through union with Him, with perfect expression and fullness of knowledge.

It is so, because God's nonsense is wiser than men's wisdom, and God's weakness is mightier than men's might.

An unspiritual man does not accept the things that the Spirit of God teaches, for they are nonsense to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are appreciated by spiritual insight.

the character of each one's work will come to light, for the judgment day will show it up. This is so, because that day will show itself in fire, and the fire will test the character of each one's work.

but because of so much sexual immorality every man should have a wife of his own, and every woman a husband of her own.

You husbands and wives must stop refusing each other what is due, unless you agree to do so just for awhile, so as to have plenty of time for prayer, and then to be together again, so as to keep Satan from tempting you because of your lack of self-control.

But it is not in all of you that such knowledge is found. Some, because of their past habits with idols, even down to the present moment, still eat such food as was really sacrificed to an idol, and so their consciences, because they are overscrupulous, are contaminated.

Is He not really speaking on our behalf? Yes, indeed, this law was written on our behalf, because the plowman ought to plow and the thresher ought to thresh, in the hope of sharing in the crop.

Because there is only one loaf, so we, though many, are only one body, for we all partake of one loaf.

For a man ought not to wear anything on his head, because he is the image and reflected glory of God, but woman is man's reflected glory.

But as I am giving you these instructions I cannot approve of your meetings, because they do not turn out for the better but for the worse.

For I belong to the lowest rank of the apostles, and am not fit to bear the title apostle, because I once persecuted the church of God.

So, my dear brothers, continue to be firm, incapable of being moved, always letting the cup run over in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the service of the Lord is never thrown away.

And I am glad that Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus have come to see me, because they have supplied what you lacked.