For by him you have become rich in every way in speech and knowledge of every kind

When slandered, we answer with kind words. Even now we have become the filth of the world, the scum of the universe.

It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, and of a kind that is not found even among the gentiles. A man is actually living with his father's wife!

However, if they cannot control themselves, they should get married, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot dine with the Lord and dine with demons,

The eye cannot say to the hand, "I don't need you," or the head to the feet, "I don't need you."

Love is always patient; love is always kind; love is never envious or arrogant with pride. Nor is she conceited,

But someone will ask, "How are the dead raised? What kind of body will they have when they come back?"

But God gives the plant the form he wants it to have, and to each kind of seed its own form.

Not all flesh is the same. Humans have one kind of flesh, animals in general have another, birds have another, and fish have still another.

There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the splendor of those in heaven is of one kind, and that of those on earth is of another.

One kind of splendor belongs to the sun, another to the moon, and still another to the stars. In fact, one star differs from another star in splendor.

This is how it will be at the resurrection of the dead. What is planted is decaying, what is raised cannot decay.

Brothers, this is what I mean: Mortal bodies cannot inherit the kingdom of God, and what decays cannot inherit what does not decay.

For what is decaying must be clothed with what cannot decay, and what is dying must be clothed with what cannot die.

Now, when what is decaying is clothed with what cannot decay, and what is dying is clothed with what cannot die, then the written word will be fulfilled: "Death has been swallowed up by victory!"