Grace and peace be to you from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

But you are of him in Christ Jesus, who has become to us wisdom from God, and righteousness, and sanctification and redemption,

but we speak a wisdom of God hid in mystery, which God appointed from eternity for our glory,

Judge nothing therefore before the time, till the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden deeds of darkness, and make known the purposes of the hearts; and then shall each one have praise from God.

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

but those without, God judges. Remove therefore the evil man from among you.

Know you not that your bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit in you which you have from God, and you are not your own?

Withhold not yourselves from one another, except by agreement for a time that you may be at leisure for prayer, and come together again, that Satan may not tempt you by your incontinence.

For I wish that all men were even as I am; but each one has his gift from God, and one is of one kind and another of another.

But the married I charge, not I, but the Lord, Let not a wife separate from her husband,

Are you bound to a wife, seek not a release; are you released from a wife, seek not a wife.

But he that stands firm in mind, not having a necessity, but has power over his will, and has determined in his mind to keep his virgin, does well.

Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right to abstain from labor?

Know you not that those who perform sacred rites eat from the temple? Those who wait on the altar partake of the altar?

For being free from all men, I have made myself a servant of all, that I may gain more;

for as the woman is of the man, so also the man is through the woman, but all things are from God.

Did the word of God go out from you, or did it come to you alone?

But if Christ is preached that he was raised from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

But now Christ has been raised from the dead, a first fruit of those that have slept.

There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.

The first man was from the earth, earthly, the second man is from heaven.

Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, be manly, be strong,