I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. Why, you are not ready for it now,

It is true, food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for the food, but God will put an end to both of them. But the body is not meant for immorality, but for the service of the Lord, and the Lord is for the body to serve.

About food that has been offered to idols, it is true, as you say, that we all have some knowledge on that matter. Knowledge gives people airs; love is what builds up character.

But food is not going to affect our standing with God. We are none the worse if we do not eat it, and none the better if we do.

Have we not a right to our food and drink?

So that is the way I run, unswervingly. That is the way I fight, not punching the air.

and all ate the same supernatural food

If the foot says, "As I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body," that does not make it any less a part of the body.

The eye cannot say to the hand, "I do not need you," or the head to the feet, "I do not need you."

For I am the least important of the apostles, and am not fit to be called an apostle, because I once persecuted God's church.

for he must retain the kingdom until he puts all his enemies under his feet.

for everything is to be reduced to subjection and put under Christ's feet. But when it says that everything is subject to him, he is evidently excepted who reduced it all to subjection to him.