For the Jews ask for signs and the Greeks seek wisdom,

But as it is written:

What eye did not see and ear did not hear,
and what never entered the human mind—
God prepared this for those who love Him.

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

For if someone sees you, the one who has this knowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, won’t his weak conscience be encouraged to eat food offered to idols?

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

No one should seek his own good, but the good of the other person.

But even more, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are necessary.

For now we see indistinctly, as in a mirror,
but then face to face.
Now I know in part,
but then I will know fully,
as I am fully known.

So also you—since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek to excel in building up the church.

And as for what you sow—you are not sowing the future body, but only a seed, perhaps of wheat or another grain.

I don’t want to see you now just in passing, for I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord allows.

If Timothy comes, see that he has nothing to fear from you, because he is doing the Lord’s work, just as I am.