For indeed, Jews ask for sign miracles and Greeks seek wisdom,

But just as it is written, "[Things] which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and have not entered into the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love him."

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek release. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

For if someone should see you who has knowledge reclining for a meal in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, [because it] is weak, be strengthened so that [he] eats the food sacrificed 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?

Let no one seek {his own good} but the [good] of the other.

For now we see through a mirror {indirectly}, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know completely, just as I have also been completely known.

In this way also you, since you are zealous of spiritual [gifts], seek for the edification of the church, in order that you may abound.

And what you sow [is] not the body which it will become, but you sow the bare seed, whether perhaps of wheat or of some of the rest.

For I do not want to see you now in passing, for I hope to remain some time with you, if the Lord allows [it].

But if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without cause to fear, for he is carrying out the Lord's work, as I also [am].