From Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Sosthenes, our brother,

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

He is the reason you have a relationship with Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God.

So then, do not judge anything before the time. Wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the motives of hearts. Then each will receive recognition from God.

And you are proud! Shouldn't you have been deeply sorrowful instead and removed the one who did this from among you?

But God will judge those outside. Remove the evil person from among you.

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

I wish that everyone was as I am. But each has his own gift from God, one this way, another that.

With regard to the question about people who have never married, I have no command from the Lord, but I give my opinion as one shown mercy by the Lord to be trustworthy.

The one bound to a wife should not seek divorce. The one released from a wife should not seek marriage.

And I want you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord.

But the man who is firm in his commitment, and is under no necessity but has control over his will, and has decided in his own mind to keep his own virgin, does well.

yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we live, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we live.

If we sowed spiritual blessings among you, is it too much to reap material things from you?

If others receive this right from you, are we not more deserving? But we have not made use of this right. Instead we endure everything so that we may not be a hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

Don't you know that those who serve in the temple eat food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar receive a part of the offerings?

For since I am free from all I can make myself a slave to all, in order to gain even more people.

To those free from the law I became like one free from the law (though I am not free from God's law but under the law of Christ) to gain those free from the law.

and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they were all drinking from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

So then, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.

But if someone says to you, "This is from a sacrifice," do not eat, because of the one who told you and because of conscience --

For man did not come from woman, but woman from man.

For just as woman came from man, so man comes through woman. But all things come from God.

For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread,

So then, brothers and sisters, be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid anyone from speaking in tongues.

Now if Christ is being preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?

Also, we are found to be false witnesses about God, because we have testified against God that he raised Christ from the dead, when in reality he did not raise him, if indeed the dead are not raised.

But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

If from a human point of view I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what did it benefit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

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 is from the earth, made of dust; the second man is from heaven.

Like the one made of dust, so too are those made of dust, and like the one from heaven, so too those who are heavenly.

So then, dear brothers and sisters, be firm. Do not be moved! Always be outstanding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Stay alert, stand firm in the faith, show courage, be strong.