to the church of God at Corinth, to those who are consecrated by union with Christ Jesus, and called as God's people, like all those anywhere who call on the name of Jesus Christ, their Lord as well as ours;

For to those who are on the way to destruction, the story of the cross is nonsense, but to us who are to be saved, it means all the power of God.

For since in God's providence the world with all its wisdom did not come to know God, God chose, through the folly of the gospel message, to save those who had faith in him.

but to those whom God has called, whether they are Jews or Greeks, a Christ who is God's power and God's wisdom.

But, as the Scripture says, there are things "Which no eye ever saw and no ear ever heard, And never occurred to the human mind, Which God has provided for those who love him."

For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not your part to judge those who are inside the church,

and God's, to judge those who are outside? You must drive the wrongdoer out from among you.

To those already married my instructions are??nd they are not mine, but the Lord's??hat a wife is not to separate from her husband.

But if you do marry, there is no sin in that. And if a girl marries, it is no sin. But those who marry will have worldly trouble, which I would like to spare you.

But this I do say, brothers. The appointed time has grown very short. From this time on those who have wives should live as though they had none,

and those who mourn as though they did not mourn, and those who are glad as though they were not glad, and those who buy anything as though they did not own it,

and those who mix in the world, as though they were not absorbed in it. For the present shape of the world is passing away.

My answer to those who want to investigate me is this:

Do you not know that those who do the work about the Temple get their living from the Temple, and those who attend to the altar divide the sacrifices with the altar?

In just that way the Lord directed that those who preach the good news should get their living from it.

To the Jews I have become like a Jew, to win Jews over; to men under the Law I have become like a man under the Law, though I am not myself under the Law, so as to win over those who are under the Law.

To those who have no law I have become like a man without any law??hough I am not without the law of God, but under the law of Christ??o as to win over those who are without any law.

Think of the Israelites' practices. Do not those who eat what is sacrificed have divine fellowship at the sacrificial altar?

Doubtless there must be parties among you, if those who are right are to be recognized among you.

Have you no houses to eat and drink in? Or do you mean to show your contempt for the church of God, and to humiliate those who have none? What can I say to you? Can I approve of you? Not in this matter certainly.

So this ecstatic speaking is meant as a sign not to those who believe but to unbelievers, but inspired preaching is a sign not to unbelievers but to those who believe.

Yes, and those who have fallen asleep in trust in Christ have perished.

But the truth is, Christ was raised from the dead, the first to be raised of those who have fallen asleep.

But each in his own turn; Christ first, and then at Christ's coming those who belong to him.

Those who are of the earth are like him who was of the earth, and those who are of heaven are like him who is from heaven,