After all, no one can lay any other foundation than the one that is already laid, and that is Jesus the Messiah.

Instead, you yourselves practice doing wrong and cheating others, and brothers at that!

Keep on running away from sexual immorality. Any other sin that a person commits is outside his body, but the person who sins sexually sins against his own body.

Do not withhold yourselves from each other unless you agree to do so just for a set time, in order to devote yourselves to prayer. Then you should come together again so that Satan does not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

If I am not an apostle to other people, surely I am one to you, for you are the evidence of my apostolic authority from the Lord.

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

If others enjoy this right over you, don't we have a stronger claim? But we did not use this right. On the contrary, we tolerate everything in order not to put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of the Messiah.

No, I keep on disciplining my body, making it serve me so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not somehow be disqualified.

Therefore, my brothers, when you gather to eat, wait for each other.

If anyone is hungry, he should eat at home, so that when you gather it may not bring judgment on you. And when I come I will give instructions concerning the other matters.

so that there might be no disharmony in the body, but that its parts should have the same concern for each other.

God has appointed in the church first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then those who perform miracles, those who have gifts of healing, those who help others, administrators, and those who speak various kinds of languages.

It's good for you to give thanks, but it does not build up the other person.

But in church I would rather speak five words with my mind to instruct others than 10,000 words in a foreign language.

Two or three prophets should speak, and others should weigh carefully what is said.

Therefore, my brothers, desire the ability to prophesy, and do not prevent others from speaking in foreign languages.

But by God's grace I am what I am, and his grace shown to me was not wasted. Instead, I worked harder than all the others not I, of course, but God's grace that was with me.

So, whether it was I or the others, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.

If we have set our hopes on the Messiah in this life only, we deserve more pity than any other people.

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.