But the unbeliever does not welcome what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated spiritually.

If any of you has a legal dispute against another, do you dare go to court before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

A wife does not have the right over her own body, but her husband does. In the same way, a husband does not have the right over his own body, but his wife does.

But if she does leave, she must remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband—and a husband is not to leave his wife.

Circumcision does not matter and uncircumcision does not matter, but keeping God’s commands does.

So then he who marries his virgin does well, but he who does not marry will do better.

If anyone thinks he knows anything, he does not yet know it as he ought to know it.

Who ever goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not drink the milk from the flock?

Am I saying this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the law also say the same thing?

Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair it is a disgrace to him,

Love is patient, love is kind.
Love does not envy,
is not boastful, is not conceited,

does not act improperly,
is not selfish, is not provoked,
and does not keep a record of wrongs.

Otherwise, if you praise with the spirit, how will the uninformed person say “Amen” at your giving of thanks, since he does not know what you are saying?

If I fought wild animals in Ephesus with only human hope, what good did that do me? If the dead are not raised, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

Foolish one! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

If anyone does not love the Lord, a curse be on him. Marana tha that is, Lord, come!