which none of the princes of this age knew, (for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;)

But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him; and he cannot know them because they are spiritually discerned;

And again, The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise that they are vain.

For this reason I have sent to you Timotheus, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who shall put you in mind of my ways as they are in Christ, according as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, It is good for them that they remain even as I.

But if they have not control over themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother; since otherwise indeed your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

But if thou shouldest also marry, thou hast not sinned; and if the virgin marry, they have not sinned: but such shall have tribulation in the flesh; but I spare you.

But this I say, brethren, the time is straitened. For the rest, that they who have wives, be as not having any:

and they that weep, as not weeping; and they that rejoice, as not rejoicing; and they that buy, as not possessing;

and they that use the world, as not disposing of it as their own; for the fashion of this world passes.

Do ye not know that they who labour at sacred things eat of the offerings offered in the temple; they that attend at the altar partake with the altar?

Know ye not that they who run in the race-course run all, but one receives the prize? Thus run in order that ye may obtain.

But every one that contends for a prize is temperate in all things: they then indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank of a spiritual rock which followed them: (now the rock was the Christ;)

yet God was not pleased with the most of them, for they were strewed in the desert.

But these things happened as types of us, that we should not be lusters after evil things, as they also lusted.

See Israel according to flesh: are not they who eat the sacrifices in communion with the altar?

But that what the nations sacrifice they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. Now I do not wish you to be in communion with demons.

Even as I also please all in all things; not seeking my own profit, but that of the many, that they may be saved.

Love never fails; but whether prophecies, they shall be done away; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be done away.

Even lifeless things giving a sound, whether pipe or harp, if they give not distinction to the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?

It is written in the law, By people of other tongues, and by strange lips, will I speak to this people; and neither thus will they hear me, saith the Lord.

If therefore the whole assembly come together in one place, and all speak with tongues, and simple persons enter in, or unbelievers, will not they say ye are mad?

But if they wish to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is a shame for a woman to speak in assembly.

But by God's grace I am what I am; and his grace, which was towards me, has not been vain; but I have laboured more abundantly than they all, but not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Whether, therefore, I or they, thus we preach, and thus ye have believed.

Since what shall the baptised for the dead do if those that are dead rise not at all? why also are they baptised for them?

But some one will say, How are the dead raised? and with what body do they come?

and if it be suitable that I also should go, they shall go with me.

But I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruits of Achaia, and they have devoted themselves to the saints for service,)

But I rejoice in the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus; because they have supplied what was lacking on your part.

For they have refreshed my spirit and yours: own therefore such.