For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,

For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;

But as it is written, "Things which an eye didn't see, and an ear didn't hear, which didn't enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him."

Are you bound to a wife? Don't seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don't 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? Haven't I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren't you my work in the Lord?

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

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

doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

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 assembly.

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.