These truths we are setting forth, not in words that man's wisdom teaches but in words that the Spirit teaches, in this way fitting spiritual words to spiritual truths.

And these are just the characters some of you used to be. But now you have washed yourselves clean, you have been consecrated, you are now in right standing with God, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of God.

Only, everybody must continue to live in the station which the Lord assigned to him, in that in which God called him. These are my orders in all the churches.

But I myself have never used any of these rights. And I am not writing this just to make it so in my case, for I had rather die than do that. No one shall rob me of this ground of boasting.

Now all these things occurred as warnings to us, to keep us from hankering after what is evil, in the ways they did.

But as I am giving you these instructions I cannot approve of your meetings, because they do not turn out for the better but for the worse.

But the one and same Spirit accomplishes all these achievements, and apportions power to each of us as He chooses.

And so these three, faith, hope, and love endure, but the greatest of them is love.

I beg you to put yourselves under leaders like these, and under anyone who cooperates with you, and labors hard.