so that you do not lack in any spiritual gift [as you] eagerly await the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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?

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].

[when we are] slandered, we encourage. We have become like the refuse of the world, the offscouring of all [things], until now.

Do not defraud one another, except perhaps by agreement, for a time, in order that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and [then] you should be {together} again, lest Satan tempt you because of your lack of self control.

I wish all people could be like myself, but each one has his own gift from God, one in this way and another in that way.

But food does not bring us close to God. For neither if we eat do we have more, nor if we do not eat do we lack.

Do we not have the right to take along a sister [as] wife, like the rest of the apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?

I have become like a Jew to the Jews, in order that I may gain the Jews. To those under the law [I became] as under the law ([although I] myself am not under the law) in order that I may gain those under the law.

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside the things of a child.