For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,

We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father's wife.

are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Don't even eat with such a person.

Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

Are you bound to a wife? Don't seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don't seek a wife.

But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.

Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor's good.

Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,

But if one of those who don't believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.

But if anyone says to you, "This was offered to idols," don't eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For "the earth is the Lord's, and all its fullness."

But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God's assemblies.

whereas our presentable parts have no such need. But God composed the body together, giving more abundant honor to the inferior part,

doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly.

As is the one made of dust, such are those who are also made of dust; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

that you also be in subjection to such, and to everyone who helps in the work and labors.