Nay, as it is written. Eye has not seen, Nor ear heard, Neither have entered into man's heart The things which God has prepared For those who love him.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God made the seed grow.

So neither is he who planted anything, nor he who watered, but God alone, who is making the seed grow.

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from the marriage bond? Do not seek for a wife.

But see to it lest this right of yours become a stumbling-block to the weak.

For if any one should see you, the possessor of "knowledge," reclining at table in an idol's temple, would not his conscience, if he were weak, be emboldened to eat things 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?

And we can see this, for in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jew or Gentile, whether slave or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

On the contrary, we need those members of the body which seem to be weaker;

For now we see as in a mirror, and are baffled, but then face to face; now I know in fragments, but then shall I understand even as I also have been understood.

Hotly pursue this love, yet seek earnestly spiritual gifts, and chiefly that you may prophesy.

If then I do not know the force of expression, I shall seem a barbarian to the one who uses it, and he will seem a barbarian to me.

So also in your case, since you are ambitious for spiritual gifts, seek to excel in them for the upbuilding of the church.

and was seen by Cephas, and then by the Twelve.

Afterward he was seen at one time by more than five hundred brethren, most of whom are still alive, but some are fallen asleep.

Then he was seen by James, then by all the apostles,

and last of all, as by one born out of due time, he was seen by me also.

Foolish man! The seed you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

And when you sow the seed you are not sowing the body that it will become, but bare grain, of wheat perhaps, or some other grain.

But God gives it what body he pleases, and to each kind of seed its own body.

For I do not wish at this present time to see you merely in passing; but if the Lord permits, I hope to remain some time with you.

If Timothy come, see to it that he is among you without trepidation; for he is doing the Lord's work, as I am, so let no one disparage him.