May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

who will also keep you stedfast to the very End, so that you will be free from reproach on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

to prevent any mortal man from boasting in the presence of God.

But you--and it is all God's doing--are in Christ Jesus: He has become for us a wisdom which is from God, consisting of righteousness and sanctification and deliverance;

But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which comes forth from God, that we may know the blessings that have been so freely given to us by God.

Therefore form no premature judgements, but wait until the Lord returns. He will both bring to light the secrets of darkness and will openly disclose the motives that have been in people's hearts; and then the praise which each man deserves will come to him from God.

And you, instead of mourning and removing from among you the man who has done this deed of shame, are filled with self-complacency!

Get rid of the old yeast so that you may be dough of a new kind; for in fact you *are* free from corruption. For our Passover Lamb has already been offered in sacrifice--even Christ.

Therefore let us keep our festival not with old yeast nor with the yeast of what is evil and mischievous, but with bread free from yeast--the bread of transparent sincerity and of truth.

not that in this world you are to keep wholly aloof from such as they, any more than from people who are avaricious and greedy of gain, or from worshippers of idols. For that would mean that you would be compelled to go out of the world altogether.

while you leave to God's judgement those who are outside? Remove the wicked man from among you.

And all this describes what some of you were. But now you have had every stain washed off: now you have been set apart as holy: now you have been pronounced free from guilt; in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.

Flee from fornication. Any other sin that a human being commits lies outside the body; but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.

Or do you not know that your bodies are a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you--the Spirit whom you have from God?

I now deal with the subjects mentioned in your letter. It is well for a man to abstain altogether from marriage.

Yet I would that everybody lived as I do; but each of us has his own special gift from God--one in one direction and one in another.

And a woman who has an unbelieving husband--if he consents to live with her, let her not separate from him.

Concerning unmarried women I have no command to give you from the Lord; but I offer you my opinion, which is that of a man who, through the Lord's mercy, is deserving of your confidence.

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to get free. Are you free from the marriage bond? Do not seek for a wife.

And I would have you free from worldly anxiety. An unmarried man concerns himself with the Lord's business--how he shall please the Lord;

But if a father stands firm in his resolve, being free from all external constraint and having a legal right to act as he pleases, and in his own mind has come to the decision to keep his daughter unmarried, he will do well.

But all believers do not recognize these facts. Some, from force of habit in relation to the idol, even now eat idol sacrifices as such, and their consciences, being but weak, are polluted.

It is true that a particular kind of food will not bring us into God's presence; we are neither inferior to others if we abstain from it, nor superior to them if we eat it.

If it is we who sowed the spiritual grain in you, is it a great thing that we should reap a temporal harvest from you?

Do you not know that those who perform the sacred rites have their food from the sacred place, and that those who serve at the altar all alike share with the altar?

Though free from all human control, I have made myself the slave of all in the hope of winning as many converts as possible.

and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they long drank the water that flowed from the spiritual rock that went with them--and that rock was the Christ.

But if any one tells you, "This food has been offered in sacrifice;" abstain from eating it--out of respect for him who warned you, and, as before, for conscience' sake.

Man does not take his origin from woman, but woman takes hers from man.

For just as woman originates from man, so also man comes into existence through woman, but everything springs originally from God.

For it was from the Lord that I received the facts which, in turn, I handed on to you; how that the Lord Jesus, on the night He was to be betrayed, took some bread,

For every time that you eat this bread and drink from the cup, you are proclaiming the Lord's death--until He returns.

Whoever, therefore, in an unworthy manner, eats the bread or drinks from the cup of the Lord sins against the body and blood of the Lord.

But let a man examine himself, and, having done that, then let him eat the bread and drink from the cup.

But when we are judged by the Lord, chastisement follows, to save us from being condemned along with the world.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, felt like a child, reasoned like a child: when I became a man, I put from me childish ways.

Was it from you that God's Message first went forth, or is it to you only that it has come?

through which also you are obtaining salvation, if you bear in mind the words in which I proclaimed it--unless indeed your faith has been unreal from the very first.

But if Christ is preached as having risen from the dead, how is it that some of you say that there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead?

But, in reality, Christ *has* risen from among the dead, being the first to do so of those who are asleep.

If from merely human motives I have fought with wild beasts in Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead do not rise, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we are to die.

Wake from this drunken fit; live righteous lives, and cease to sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak thus in order to move you to shame.

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

It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in a state of decay, it is raised free from decay;

The first man is a man of earth, earthy; the second man is from Heaven.

Now sin is the sting of death, and sin derives its power from the Law;

If Timothy pays you a visit, see that he is free from fear in his relations with you; for he is engaged in the Master's work just as I am.

Let all that you do be done from motives of love.