What, don't you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God's assembly, and put them to shame who don't have? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don't praise you.

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

Or don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

Are you bound to a wife? Don't seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don't seek a wife.

Therefore, you don't lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus the Messiah to be revealed.

We don't speak about these things with words taught us by human wisdom, but with words taught by the Spirit, as we explain spiritual things to spiritual people.

You know that you are God's sanctuary and that God's Spirit lives in you, don't you?

It is a very small thing to me that I should be examined by you or by any human court. In fact, I don't even evaluate myself.

Your boasting is not good. You know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough, don't you?

You know that the saints will rule the world, don't you? And if the world is going to be ruled by you, can't you handle insignificant cases?

You know that we will rule angels, not to mention things in this life, don't you?

You know that your bodies belong to the Messiah, don't you? Should I take what belongs to the Messiah and unite them with a prostitute? Certainly not!

You know that the person who unites himself with a prostitute becomes one body with her, don't you? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh."

You know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God, don't you? You do not belong to yourselves,

We have the right to earn our food, don't we?

We have the right to take a believing wife with us like the other apostles, the Lord's brothers, and Cephas, don't we?

If others enjoy this right over you, don't we have a stronger claim? But we did not use this right. On the contrary, we tolerate everything in order not to put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of the Messiah.

You know that those who work in the Temple get their food from the Temple and that those who serve at the altar get their share of its offerings, don't you?

You know that in a race all the runners run but only one wins the prize, don't you? You must run in such a way that you may be victorious.

Look at the Israelis from a human point of view. Those who eat the sacrifices share in what is on the altar, don't they?

However, if someone says to you, "This was offered as a sacrifice," don't eat it, both out of consideration for the one who told you and also for the sake of conscience.

Don't become a stumbling block to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God,

just as I myself try to please everybody in every way. I don't look out for my own benefit, but rather for the benefit of many people, so that they might be saved.

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I don't want you to be ignorant.

However, our attractive parts don't need this. But God has put the body together and has given special honor to the parts that lack it,

If I don't know the meaning of the language, I will be a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker will be a foreigner to me.

Come back to your senses as you should, and stop sinning! For some of you I say this to your shame don't fully know God.

wherefore, brethren, zealously exercise the gift of prophecy, and don't prohibit those that speak in an unknown language.

besides, my engaging with those monsters, as I may say, at Ephesus, what advantage was it to me? if the dead don't rise, "let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die."

and whatever you sow, you don't sow that body which shall afterwards appear, but only the bare grain of wheat, for instance, or of some other grain.

true, I baptized the family of Stephanas: but I don't know that I baptized any other besides.

we are fatigu'd by our manual toil: when reviled, we pray: when persecuted, we don't repine:

This I don't write to give you any confusion, but by way of remonstrance, to you who are my dear children.

beside, you are absolutely in the wrong in going to law with one another at all: why don't you rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer loss?

don't desert one another, unless you mutually consent to retire for a time, to the solemnity of prayer; and then come together again, lest satan make an attempt upon your continency.

were you called being a slave? be not perplex'd about it; but if you can obtain your freedom, don't refuse it.

have you been redeemed from slavery? then, don't turn slaves.

meat does not recommend us to God: if we eat, we are not the better men; if we don't eat, we are not the worse.

when I say conscience, I don't mean your own, but that of the other: for why should I expose my liberty to the censure of another man's conscience?

Therefore don’t judge anything prematurely, before the Lord comes, who will both bring to light what is hidden in darkness and reveal the intentions of the hearts. And then praise will come to each one from God.

Don’t become idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to play.

If the foot should say, “Because I’m not a hand, I don’t belong to the body,” in spite of this it still belongs to the body.

And if the ear should say, “Because I’m not an eye, I don’t belong to the body,” in spite of this it still belongs to the body.

Even inanimate things that produce sounds—whether flute or harp—if they don’t make a distinction in the notes, how will what is played on the flute or harp be recognized?

Brothers, don’t be childish in your thinking, but be infants in regard to evil and adult in your thinking.

I don’t want to see you now just in passing, for I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord allows.

for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men?

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Don't even eat with such a person.

For what have I to do with also judging those who are outside? Don't you judge those who are within?

But if they don't have self-control, let them marry. For it's better to marry than to burn.

Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble.

But I have used none of these things, and I don't write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I don't preach the Good News.

But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don't desire that you would have fellowship with demons.

But if one of those who don't believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.

But in giving you this command, I don't praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing.

If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.

Don't be deceived! "Evil companionships corrupt good morals."