In writing this much, brethren, with special reference to Apollos and myself, I have done so for your sakes, in order to teach you by our example what those words mean, which say, "Nothing beyond what is written!" --so that you may cease to take sides in boastful rivalry, for one teacher against another.

For even if you were to have ten thousand spiritual instructors--for all that you could not have several fathers. It is I who in Christ Jesus became your father through the Good News.

And you, instead of mourning and removing from among you the man who has done this deed of shame, are filled with self-complacency!

Am I making use of merely worldly illustrations? Does not the Law speak in the same tone?

And you must not be worshippers of idols, as some of them were. For it is written, "The People sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to dance."

Whether, then, you are eating or drinking, or whatever you are doing, let everything be done to the glory of God.

But let a man examine himself, and, having done that, then let him eat the bread and drink from the cup.

She finds no pleasure in injustice done to others, but joyfully sides with the truth.

Love never fails. But if there are prophecies, they will be done away with; if there are languages, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be brought to an end.

Even inanimate things--flutes or harps, for instance--when yielding a sound, if they make no distinction in the notes, how shall the tune which is played on the flute or the harp be known?

but in the Church I would rather speak five words with my understanding--so as to instruct others also--than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

What then, brethren? Whenever you assemble, there is not one of you who is not ready either with a song of praise, a sermon, a revelation, a 'tongue,' or an interpretation. Let everything be done with a view to the building up of faith and character.

only let everything be done in a becoming and orderly manner.

Let all that you do be done from motives of love.