but just as it is written,
“Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard,
And which have not entered the heart of man,
All that God has prepared for those who love Him.”

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

For if someone sees you, who have knowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be strengthened 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?

Let no one seek his own good, but that of his neighbor.

On the contrary, it is much truer that the members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary;

does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.

So also you, since you are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek to abound for the edification of the church.

For I do not wish to see you now just in passing; for I hope to remain with you for some time, if the Lord permits.

Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without cause to be afraid, for he is doing the Lord’s work, as I also am.