But the Spirit we have received is not that of the world, but the Spirit that comes from God, which we have to make us realize the blessings God has given us.

So neither the planter nor the waterer counts for anything, but only God who makes the plants grow.

Do you know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit makes its home in you?

I do not write this to you to make you ashamed, but for your instruction as my dear children.

Do you not know that your bodies are parts of Christ's body? Am I then to take away from Christ parts of his body, and make them parts of a prostitute's? Never!

Or do you not know that a man who has to do with a prostitute makes one body with her? For "The two," says the Scripture, "shall become physically one."

Only, everyone must continue in the station which the Lord has appointed for him, and in which he was when God's call came to him. This is the rule I make in all the churches.

Being circumcised or being uncircumcised does not make any difference; all that matters is keeping God's commands.

If you were a slave when you were called, never mind. Even if you can gain your freedom, make the most of your present condition instead.

Therefore, if what I eat makes my brother fall, I will never eat meat again, rather than make my brother fall.

But I beat and bruise my body and make it my slave, so that after I have called others to the contest I may not be disqualified myself.

I appeal to your good sense. Make up your minds about what I say.

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.

And if the ear says, "As I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body," that does not make it any less a part of the body.