Now, we have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who comes from God, so that we can understand the things that were freely given to us by God.

Now it is required of servant managers that each one should prove to be trustworthy.

Therefore, stop judging prematurely, before the Lord comes, for he will bring to light what is now hidden in darkness and reveal the motives of our hearts. Then each person will receive his praise from God.

When slandered, we answer with kind words. Even now we have become the filth of the world, the scum of the universe.

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.

Now about what you asked: "Is it advisable for a man not to marry?"

For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified because of her husband. Otherwise, your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

Now concerning virgins, although I do not have any command from the Lord, I will give you my opinion as one who by the Lord's mercy is trustworthy.

This is what I mean, brothers: The time is short. From now on, those who have wives should live as though they had none,

Now concerning food offered to idols: We know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

Now concerning eating food offered to idols: We know that no idol is real in this world and that there is only one God.

Now I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of the fact that all of our ancestors who left Egypt were under the cloud. They all went through the sea,

Now their experiences serve as examples for us so that we won't set our hearts on evil as they did.

Now I want you to realize that the Messiah is the head of every man, and man is the head of the woman, and God is the head of the Messiah.

Now I am not praising you in giving you the following instructions. When you gather, it is not for the better but for the worse.

Now, while we are being judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so we won't be condemned along with the world.

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I don't want you to be ignorant.

Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit,

But now God has arranged the parts, every one of them, in the body according to his plan.

Now if all of it were one part, there wouldn't be a body, would there?

Now you are the Messiah's body and individual parts of it.

Keep on desiring the better gifts. And now I will show you the best way of all.

Love never fails. Now if there are prophecies, they will be done away with. If there are languages, they will cease. If there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

Now we see only an indistinct image in a mirror, but then we will be face to face. Now what I know is incomplete, but then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.

Right now three things remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Now I wish that all of you could speak in foreign languages, but especially that you could prophesy. The person who prophesies is more important than the person who speaks in a foreign language, unless he interprets it so that the church may be built up.

Now if the whole church gathers in the same place and everyone is speaking in foreign languages, when uneducated people or unbelievers come in, they will say that you are out of your mind, won't they?

Now I'm making known to you, brothers, the gospel that I proclaimed to you, which you accepted, on which you have taken your stand,

Now if we preach that the Messiah has been raised from the dead, how can some of you keep claiming there is no resurrection of the dead?

for "God has put everything under his feet." Now when he says, "Everything has been put under him," this clearly excludes the one who put everything under him.

Now, when what is decaying is clothed with what cannot decay, and what is dying is clothed with what cannot die, then the written word will be fulfilled: "Death has been swallowed up by victory!"

Now death's stinger is sin, and sin's power is the Law.

Now concerning the collection for the saints, you should follow the directions I gave to the churches in Galatia.

I do not want to visit with you now just in passing, because I hope to spend a longer time with you if the Lord permits.

Now concerning our brother Apollos, I strongly urged him to visit you with the other brothers, but he was not inclined to do so just now. However, he will visit you when the time is right.

Now I urge you, brothers for you know that the members of the family of Stephanas were the first converts in Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to serving the saints