For no one can lay any other foundation than the one that is laid, that is, Jesus Christ himself.

But it is you who wrong and rob others, and your own brothers at that!

Fly from immorality! Any other sin a man commits is something outside his body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

You must not refuse each other what is due, unless you agree to do so for a while, to devote yourselves to prayer, and then to come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

To other people I would say, though not as Christ's command, if a Christian has a wife who is not a believer, and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her,

But she will be happier, in my judgment, if she remains as she is, and I think I have God's spirit as well as other people.

If I am not an apostle to other people, I certainly am one to you, for you yourselves, in your relation to the Lord, are the certificate of my apostleship.

If others enjoy such rights over you, have we not a still better claim? But, you say, we have never availed ourselves of this right. No, we will stand anything rather than put any hindrance in the way of the good news of the Christ.

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.

These things happened to them as a warning to others, but they were written down to instruct us, in whose days the ages have reached their climax.

But if anyone is disposed to be contentious about it, I for my part recognize no other practice in worship than this, and neither do the churches of God.

But in public worship I would rather say five words with my understanding so as to instruct others also than ten thousand words in an ecstasy.

If anyone claims to be inspired to preach, or to have any other spiritual endowment, let him understand that what I am now writing you is a command from the Lord.

After that will come the end, when he will turn over the kingdom to God his Father, bringing to an end all other government, authority, and power,

So no one is to slight him. But see him off cordially when he comes back to me, for I am expecting him with the other brothers.

As for our brother Apollos, I have often urged him to visit you with the other brothers, and he is quite unwilling to come now, but he will come when he has a good opportunity.