But the Spirit we have received is not that of the world, but the Spirit that comes from God, which we have to make us realize the blessings God has given us.

These disclosures we impart, not in the set phrases of human philosophy, but in words the Spirit teaches, giving spiritual truth a spiritual form.

For we are fellow-laborers for God, and you are God's farm, God's building.

Do not form any premature judgments, therefore, but wait until the Lord comes back. For he will light up the darkness that now hides things and show what the motives in people's minds are, and then everyone will get from God the praise he deserves.

Now, brothers, for your benefit I have applied all this only to Apollos and myself, by using us as illustrations to teach you the old lesson, "Never go beyond the letter," and to keep any of you from boasting of one teacher at the expense of another.

And can you put on airs, instead of being overwhelmed with grief at having to expel from your number the man who has done this?

For my part, though I have been absent from you in person, I have been present with you in spirit, and as thus present I have already passed judgment upon the man who has done this,

You must clean out the old yeast and become fresh dough, free from the old as you really are. For our Passover lamb is already sacrificed; it is Christ himself.

and God's, to judge those who are outside? You must drive the wrongdoer out from among you.

Do you not know that your bodies are parts of Christ's body? Am I then to take away from Christ parts of his body, and make them parts of a prostitute's? Never!

Fly from immorality! Any other sin a man commits is something outside his body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the holy Spirit that is within you, which you have received from God? Besides, you are not your own;

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.

To those already married my instructions are??nd they are not mine, but the Lord's??hat a wife is not to separate from her husband.

But this I do say, brothers. The appointed time has grown very short. From this time on those who have wives should live as though they had none,

I want you to be free from all anxiety. An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord's work, and how he can please the Lord.

So the man who marries her does what is right, and the man who refrains from doing so does even better.

If it was we who sowed the spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?

Do you not know that those who do the work about the Temple get their living from the Temple, and those who attend to the altar divide the sacrifices with the altar?

In just that way the Lord directed that those who preach the good news should get their living from it.

Though I am free from anyone's control, I have made myself everyone's slave, so as to win over all the more.

and drank the same supernatural drink??for they used to drink from a supernatural rock which attended them, and the rock was really Christ??5 still most of them disappointed God, for they were struck down in the desert.

For man was not made from woman, but woman from man,

For just as woman was made from man, man is born of woman, and both like everything else really come from God.

For I myself received from the Lord the account that I passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus the night he was betrayed took some bread

For until the Lord comes back, every time you eat this bread and drink from the cup, you proclaim his death.

Hence anyone who eats the bread or drinks from the Lord's cup in a way that is unworthy of it will be guilty of profaning the body and the blood of the Lord.

A man should examine himself, and only when he has done so should he eat any of the bread or drink from the cup.

another, from his union with the same Spirit receives faith, another, by one and the same Spirit, the ability to cure the sick,

another, the working of wonders, another, inspiration in preaching, another, the power of distinguishing the true Spirit from false ones, another, various ecstatic utterances, and another, the ability to explain them.

For just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, many as they are, form one body, so it is with Christ.

For we have all??ews or Greeks, slaves or free men??een baptized in one spirit to form one body, and we have all been saturated with one Spirit.

Did God's message start from you Corinthians? Or are you the only people it has reached?

If anyone claims to be inspired to preach, or to have any other spiritual endowment, let him understand that what I am now writing you is a command from the Lord.

So, my brothers, set your hearts on being inspired to preach, and yet do not hinder people from speaking ecstatically.

Now I want to remind you, brothers, of the form in which I presented to you the good news I brought, which you accepted and have stood by,

that he was buried, that on the third day he was raised from the dead, as the Scriptures foretold,

Now if what we preach about Christ is that he was raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead?

But the truth is, Christ was raised from the dead, the first to be raised of those who have fallen asleep.

From the human point of view, what good is it to me that I have fought wild animals here in Ephesus? If the dead do not rise at all, "Let us eat and drink, for we will be dead tomorrow!"

and when you sow it, it has not the form it is going to have, but is a naked kernel, perhaps of wheat or something else;

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

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

It is so with the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in decay, it is raised free from decay.

The first man is of the dust of the earth; the second man is from heaven.

Those who are of the earth are like him who was of the earth, and those who are of heaven are like him who is from heaven,

and as we have been like the man of the earth, let us also try to be like the man from heaven.

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the sound of the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised free from decay, and we shall be changed.

Be on the watch. Stand firm in your faith. Act like men. Show yourselves strong.