that no man might say, I baptised into my own name.

I say then to the unmarried and the widows, that it is becoming them if they abide as I am.

Now this I say, brethren, that the time is short. The conclusion is, that even they who have wives, should be as though they had not;

Now I say this for your own advantage, and not that I should lay a snare in your way, but as what is seemly, and that you may wait on the Lord without distraction.

I speak as unto wise men: judge ye what I say.

What do I say then? that an idol is any thing, or that which is sacrificed to an idol is any thing?

But if any person say unto you, This is an idol's sacrifice, eat not of it, for his sake who pointed it out, and for conscience sake. For the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.

Conscience indeed I say, not merely thine own, but that of the other person.

What! have ye not houses to eat in and to drink? or despise ye the church of God, and make those ashamed who have none? What shall I say unto you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.

Wherefore I advertise you, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God, call Jesus anathema: and no man can say, Lord Jesus, but by the Holy Ghost.

If the foot should say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it, on this account, not of the body?

And if the ear should say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it not therefore of the body?

Nor can the eye say to the hand, I have no need of thee: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

Else, though thou bless God in spirit, how shall he who filleth the place of an illiterate man, say Amen after thy thanksgiving, seeing he knoweth not what thou sayest?

If then the whole church assemble together in the same place, and all speak different tongues, and there come in illiterate persons, or infidels, will they not say ye are mad?

But if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you, that there is no resurrection of the dead?

But will any man say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?

But this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God: neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.