Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

If any one destroys the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God which you are is holy.

What is your desire? is my coming to be with punishment, or is it to be in love and a gentle spirit?

But actually, I have written to you not to associate with any so-called [Christian] brother if he is sexually immoral or greedy, or is an idolater [devoted to anything that takes the place of God], or is a reviler [who insults or slanders or otherwise verbally abuses others], or is a drunkard or a swindler—you must not so much as eat with such a person.

Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,

Or is a thief, or the worse for drink, or makes use of strong language, or takes by force what is not his, will have any part in the kingdom of God.

Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to stop doing manual labor [in order to support our ministry]?

Or isn’t He really saying it for us? Yes, this is written for us, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes should do so in hope of sharing the crop.

what, have you no houses to eat and drink in? or have ye a contempt for the church of God, or is it to insult those who are in want? what shall I say to you? shall I commend such behaviour? I do not approve of it.

What is it then, my brothers? when you come together everyone has a holy song, or a revelation, or a tongue, or is giving the sense of it. Let everything be done for the common good.

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

O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?