I am always thanking God about you, for the blessing God has given you through Christ Jesus.

For you have grown rich in everything through union with him??n power of expression and in capacity for knowledge.

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 you are his children, through your union with Christ Jesus, whom God has made our wisdom??ur uprightness and consecration and redemption,

For God revealed them to us through his Spirit, for the Spirit fathoms everything, even the depths of God himself.

What is Apollos? Or what is Paul? Just servants through whom you came to have faith, as the Lord gave each of us opportunity.

If a man's work is burned up, he must stand the loss, though he himself will be saved, but as one who has passed through the fire.

We are made fools of, for the sake of Christ, while you are men of sense, through being united with him. We are weak, you are strong. You are distinguished, we are despised.

For no matter how many guides you may have in the Christian life, you will not have many fathers; for in this matter of union with Christ, I became your father, through preaching the good news to you.

Some of you used to be like that; but you have washed it all away, you have been consecrated, you have become upright, by the power of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.

You must not refuse each other what is due, unless you agree to do so for a while, to devote yourselves to prayer, and then to come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

For the husband who is not a believer is consecrated through union with his wife, and the woman who is not a believer is consecrated through union with her Christian husband, for otherwise your children would be unblessed, but, as it is, they are consecrated.

About unmarried women I have no command of the Lord to give you, but I will give you my opinion as that of one on whom through the Lord's mercy you can depend.

For supposing there are so-called gods in heaven or on earth??nd indeed there are plenty of such gods and lords??6 yet for us there is just one God, the Father, who is the source of all things, and for whom we live, and just one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom everything was made and through whom we live.

But it is not everyone that has this knowledge; for some, through being long accustomed to idols, still eat meat that has been sacrificed to them as really offered to an idol, and their consciences, being oversensitive, are troubled.

For I would not have you forget, brothers, that though our forefathers were all protected by the cloud, and all passed safely through the sea,

One man receives through the Spirit the power to speak wisely, another, by the same Spirit, receives the power to express knowledge,

and through which you are to be saved, if you hold on, unless your faith has been all for nothing.

For since it was through a man that we have death, it is through a man also that we have the raising of the dead.

By the very pride I take in you, brothers, through our union with Christ Jesus our Lord, I face death every day.

I will come to you after passing through Macedonia, for I am going through Macedonia,

My love be with you all through Christ Jesus.