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

But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,

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

Therefore do not go on passing judgment before the time, but wait until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the things hidden in the darkness and disclose the motives of men’s hearts; and then each man’s praise will come to him from God.

You have become arrogant and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst.

But those who are outside, God judges. Remove the wicked man from among yourselves.

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

Yet I wish that all men were even as I myself am. However, each man has his own gift from God, one in this manner, and another in that.

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you released from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

But this I say, brethren, the time has been shortened, so that from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none;

and those who use the world, as though they did not make full use of it; for the form of this world is passing away.

But I want you to be free from concern. One who is unmarried is concerned about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

But he who stands firm in his heart, being under no constraint, but has authority over his own will, and has decided this in his own heart, to keep his own virgin daughter, he will do well.

yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him.

Or do only Barnabas and I not have a right to refrain from working?

If we sowed spiritual things in you, is it too much if we reap material things from you?

Do you not know that those who perform sacred services eat the food of the temple, and those who attend regularly to the altar have their share from the altar?

So also the Lord directed those who proclaim the gospel to get their living from the gospel.

For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I may win more.

and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ.

Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

For man does not originate from woman, but woman from man;

For as the woman originates from the man, so also the man has his birth through the woman; and all things originate from God.

For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which He was betrayed took bread;

Was it from you that the word of God first went forth? Or has it come to you only?

Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep.

If from human motives I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what does it profit 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, earthy; the second man is from heaven.

Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.