From: Paul, called to be an apostle of the Messiah Jesus by the will of God, and from our brother Sosthenes.

My message and my preaching were not accompanied by clever, wise words, but by a display of the Spirit's power,

Get rid of the old yeast so that you may be a new batch of dough, since you are to be free from yeast. For the Messiah, our Passover, has been sacrificed.

and those who mourn as though they did not mourn, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they did not own a thing,

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

If I don't know the meaning of the language, I will be a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker will be a foreigner to me.

Foreign languages, then, are meant to be a sign, not for believers, but for unbelievers, while prophecy is meant, not for unbelievers, but for believers.

This is how it will be at the resurrection of the dead. What is planted is decaying, what is raised cannot decay.