lest any should say that I in mine own name had baptised.

This I say to your shame. Is there utterly no wise man among you? What, not one at all? That can judge between brother and brother?

This I say of favour, not of commandment.

I say unto the unmarried men, and widows: it is good for them if they abide even as I do,

This say I, brethren: the time is short. It remaineth that they which have wives, be as though they had none:

Say I these things after the manner of men? Or sayeth not the law the same also?

I speak as unto them which have discretion: judge ye what I say.

What say I then? That the image is anything? Or that it which is offered to images is anything?

Nay, but I say, that these things which the gentiles offer, they offer to devils, and not to God. And I would not that ye should have fellowship with the devils.

But and if any man say unto you, "This is dedicated unto idols," eat not of it, for his sake that showed it, and for hurting of conscience - the earth is the Lord's and all that therein is -

Conscience I say, not thine: but the conscience of that other. For why should my liberty be judged of another man's conscience?

Have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? Or else despise ye the congregation of God? And shame them that have not? What shall I say unto you? Shall I praise you? In this praise I you not.

Wherefore I declare unto you that no man speaking in the spirit of God defieth Jesus. Also no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the holy ghost.

If the foot say, "I am not the hand, therefore I am not of the body," is he therefore not of the body?

And if the ear say, "I am not the eye, therefore I am not of the body," is he therefore not of the body?

And the eye cannot say unto the hand, "I have no need of thee," nor the head also to the feet, "I have no need of you."

For else when thou blessest with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say "amen" at thy giving of thanks? Seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?

If therefore when all the congregation is come together, and all speak with tongues, there come in they that are unlearned, or they which believe not: will they not say that ye are out of your wits?

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

But some man will say, "How shall the dead arise? With what bodies come they in?

This say I brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. Neither doth corruption inherit uncorruption.