A material man will not accept what the Spirit of God offers. It seems mere folly to him, and he cannot understand it, because it takes spiritual insight to see its true value.

Immorality is actually notorious among you, and immorality of a kind unknown even among the heathen??hat a man has taken his father's wife.

A wife cannot do as she likes with her own person; it is her husband's; and in the same way a husband cannot do as he likes with his own person; it is his wife's.

I should like to have everyone be just as I am myself; but each one has his own special gift from God, one of one kind, and one of another.

But if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to be on fire with passion.

As far as preaching the good news is concerned, that is nothing for me to boast of, for I cannot help doing it. For I am ruined if I do not preach.

You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot eat at the table of the Lord and at the table of demons.

But while I am on this subject, I cannot approve of your meetings, because they are doing you more harm than good.

The eye cannot say to the hand, "I do not need you," or the head to the feet, "I do not need you."

Love is patient and kind. Love is not envious or boastful. It does not put on airs.

But someone will say, "How can the dead rise? What kind of a body will they have when they come back?"

and God gives it just such a form as he pleases, so that each kind of seed has a form of its own.

Flesh is not all alike; men have one kind, animals another, birds another, and fish another.

There are heavenly bodies, and there are earthly bodies, but the beauty of the heavenly bodies is of one kind, and the beauty of the earthly bodies is of another.

The sun has one kind of beauty, and the moon another, and the stars another; why, one star differs from another in beauty.

But I can tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot share in the Kingdom of God, and decay will not share in what is imperishable.