to the church of God at Corinth, to those who are consecrated by union with Christ Jesus, and called as God's people, like all those anywhere who call on the name of Jesus Christ, their Lord as well as ours;

for you are still fleshly. For where [there is] jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and do you not live like [unregenerate] people?

For when one says, I am of Paul; and another says, I am of Apollos; are you not talking like natural men?

According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building upon [it]. But each one must direct his attention to how he is building upon [it].

If his work is burned up, he will suffer loss. However, he himself will be saved, but it will be like going through fire.

You have already a sufficiency, you already abound, you live like princes in our absence: and would to God you did reign, that we too might have the advantage of your administration.

For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display in last place, like men condemned to death. We have become a spectacle for the world, for angels, and for people to stare at.

being defamed we entreat; we are made like the offscouring of the world and the vilest of all things, even till now.

It is with no wish to shame you that I am writing like this; but to warn you as my own dear children.

I entreat you therefore to become like me.

Then get rid of the old leaven, so that you may be like a new lump, as you are now unleavened. For our Paschal Lamb has already been sacrificed, Christ himself.

But now I am writing to you to stop associating with any so-called brother if he is sexually immoral, greedy, an idolater, a slanderer, a drunk, or a robber. You must even stop eating with someone like that.

Some of you used to be like that; but you have washed it all away, you have been consecrated, you have become upright, by the power of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.

to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

the wife over her own body hath not authority, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband over his own body hath not authority, but the wife.

However, I should like for everyone to be just as I am myself, yet each of us has his own special gift from God, one for one way, another for another.

I say to those who are unmarried, especially to widows: It is good for them to remain like me.

But to the rest say I, not the Lord, If any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she like to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

And if any wife hath an unbelieving husband, and he like to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

for he who is in the Lord -- having been called a servant -- is the Lord's freedman: in like manner also he the freeman, having been called, is servant of Christ:

But if you do marry, there is no sin in that. And if a girl marries, it is no sin. But those who marry will have worldly trouble, which I would like to spare you.

those with tears like those not weeping, those who rejoice like those not rejoicing, those who buy like those without possessions,

Now when you sin like this against the brothers and wound their weak conscience, you are sinning against Christ.

We have the right to take a believing wife with us like the other apostles, the Lord's brothers, and Cephas, don't we?

In like manner also did the Lord ordain that they who preach the gospel should live from the gospel.

To the Jews I have become like a Jew for the winning of Jews; to men under the law, like one under the law, though I am not under the law myself, to win the men under the law;

to men who have no written law, like one without any law, though I am not without God's law but specially under Christ's law, to win the men who have no written law.

to the weak I became like one who was weak, that I might gain the weak: I have become all things to all men, that I may, by all means, save some.

Don't you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.

So that is the way I run, with no uncertainty as to winning. That is the way I box, not like one that punches the air.

But [like a boxer] I strictly discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached [the gospel] to others, I myself will not somehow be disqualified [as unfit for service].

Now these events were examples for us, so that we should not have strong desires for evil things like they did.

And you must not be idolaters like some of them. as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, And they rose up for idol dances.

Let us not practice immorality, like some of them, twenty-three thousand of whom fell dead in one day,

But I would like you to understand this: Christ is the head of every man, man is the head of woman, and God is the head of Christ.

While any woman, who prays or preaches in public bare-headed, dishonors him who is her Head; for that is to make herself like one of the shameless women who shave their heads.

For just as woman was made from man, man is born of woman, and both like everything else really come from God.

But if anyone wants to argue about this, we do not have any custom like this, nor do any of God's churches.

for it is his own supper of which each of you is in a hurry to partake, and one eats like a hungry man, while another has already drunk to excess.

In like manner also the cup after the supping, saying, 'This cup is the new covenant in my blood; this do ye, as often as ye may drink it -- to the remembrance of me;'

On the contrary, those parts of the body which seem to be weaker [i.e., delicate organs like the heart, lungs, kidneys, etc.] are necessary [for life].

If I make use of the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am like sounding brass, or a loud-tongued bell.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put aside my childish ways.

I would like for all of you to speak in ecstasy, but I would rather that you prophesy. The man who speaks with real prophetic insight renders greater service than the man who speaks in ecstasy, unless the latter explains it, so the congregation may receive an uplift.

Even inanimate things, like the flute or the harp, may produce sound, but if there is no difference in the notes, how can you tell what is being played?

in like manner, if you express yourselves in words of obscure signification, you may as well talk to the wind, for how shall any comprehend you?

But if the sense of the voice is not clear to me, I am like a man from a strange country to him who is talking, and he will be the same to me.

Brothers, stop being childish in your thinking. Be like infants with respect to evil, but think like adults.

It is just like this with the resurrection of the dead.

Those who are of the earth are like him who was of the earth, and those who are of heaven are like him who is from heaven,

and as we have been like the man of the earth, let us also try to be like the man from heaven.

Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, and be strong.

I beg you to put yourselves under leaders like these, and under anyone who cooperates with you, and labors hard.

They refreshed my spirit and yours, too. Therefore, appreciate men like that.