to the church of God at Corinth, to those who are consecrated by union with Christ Jesus, and called to be God's people, in fellowship with those who anywhere call upon the name of Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:

For the message of the cross is nonsense to those who are in the process of being destroyed, but it is the power of God to those who are in the process of being saved.

but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks alike, the Christ who is God's power and God's wisdom.

But, as the Scripture says, they are: "Things which eye has never seen and ear has never heard, and never have occurred to human hearts, which God prepared for those who love Him."

But I am coming, and coming soon, if the Lord is willing, and then I will find out, not only what those conceited fellows say but what they can do,

For what right have I to judge outsiders? Is it not for you to judge those who are inside the church,

but for God to judge those who are outside? You must expel that wicked person from your membership.

But if you do get married, you have not sinned in doing so. And if a girl gets married, she has not sinned in doing so. But those who do will have trouble in their earthly life, and I am trying to spare you this.

and those that mourn as though they did not mourn, and those who are glad as though they were not glad, and those who buy as though they did not own a thing,

and those who are enjoying the world as though they were not entirely absorbed in it. For the outward order of this world is passing away.

My vindication of myself to those who are investigating 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 constantly attend on the altar share its offerings?

Just so the Lord has issued orders that those who preach the good news shall get their living out of it.

Those things continued to befall them as warnings to others, and they were written down for the purpose of instructing us, in whose lives the climax of the ages has been reached.

Look at the Israelites in their practices. Are not those who eat the sacrifices in spiritual fellowship with the altar?

It is not that you have no houses to eat and drink in, is it? Or, are you trying to show your contempt for the church of God and trying to humiliate those who have no houses? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? No, I cannot praise you for this.

No, on the contrary, even those parts of the body that seem to be most delicate are indispensable,

Yes, even those who have fallen asleep, though in union with Christ, have perished.

But in reality Christ has been raised from the dead, the first to be raised of those who have fallen asleep.

But each in his proper order; Christ first, then at His coming those who belong to Christ.

Otherwise, what do those people mean who submit to being baptized on behalf of their dead? If the dead are never raised at all, why do they submit to being baptized on their behalf?

Now those who are made of the dust are just like him who was first made of dust, and those who are heavenly are like Him who is from heaven,