For Christ sent me not to baptize but to preach the good news, not with a wisdom of speech lest the cross of Christ should be without effect.

But, moreover, it is required of stewards that one should be found faithful.

But it is of little account to me that I should be judged by you or by man's day [judgment]; but I judge not myself;

IT is commonly reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not among the gentiles, that a man should have his father's wife.

And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed should be removed from among you.

But this I say, brothers, the time is short, so that in future those who have wives should be as those not having them,

But beware lest your liberty should become an offense to the weak.

or does he speak entirely for our sakes? For our sakes, doubtless, it was written, that he who plows should plow in hope, and that he who threshes in hope should partake of it.

But I have used none of these things, and I have not written these things that it should be so done to me; for I prefer to die, rather than that any one should make my boasting vain.

but I brow-beat my body, and bring it into subjection, lest having preached to others I should myself be a reprobate.

But these things are examples for us, that we should not desire evil things, as they did.

Judge of yourselves; is it becoming that a woman should pray to God unveiled?

For it is necessary that there should be heresies among you, that the approved may be manifest among you.

For if we judged ourselves we should not be judged;

that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child; when I became a man I put away childish things.

I wish you all to speak with tongues, but rather that you should prophesy; and he that prophesies is greater than he that speaks with tongues, unless he interprets, that the assembly may receive edification.

and if it seems best that I should go, they shall go with me.