For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,

But as it is written, No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has imagined the things which God has prepared for those who love him.

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

For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol's temple, won't his conscience, if he is 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?

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

No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary.

does not behave itself inappropriately, does not seek its own way, is not irritable, does not keep a record of wrongs;

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

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

But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.

For I do not wish to see you now in passing, but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits.

Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do.