For the word of the cross is to those who are perishing, foolishness; but to those who are being saved, it is the power of God.

and we toil, laboring with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

being defamed, we entreat; we were made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, until now.

For I, verily, being absent in the body, but present in the Spirit, have already, as if present, judged him who so wrought this;

in the name of our Lord Jesus, ye being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

Were you called, being a slave? care not for it; but, even if you can become free, use it rather.

For he that was called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freedman: likewise, he that was called, being free, is Christ's slave.

But this knowledge is not in all; but some, by familiarity with the idol even until now, eat it as an idol-sacrifice; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

For, being free from all men, I made myself servant to all, that I might gain the more.

And, to the Jews, I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those under law, as under law (not being myself under law), that I might gain those under law;

to those without law, as without law (not being without law to God, but under law to Christ), that I might gain those without law.

For a man, indeed, ought not to veil his head; being God's image and glory; but the woman is man's glory;

For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus, in the same night in which He was being betrayed, took bread;

but, being judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

For, as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is the Christ;