Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Brothers, consider your calling: Not many are wise from a human perspective, not many powerful, not many of noble birth.

But it is from Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became God-given wisdom for us—our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption,

Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who comes from God, so that we may understand what has been freely given to us by God.

But the unbeliever does not welcome what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated spiritually.

Therefore don’t judge anything prematurely, before the Lord comes, who will both bring to light what is hidden in darkness and reveal the intentions of the hearts. And then praise will come to each one from God.

Now, brothers, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the saying: “Nothing beyond what is written.” The purpose is that none of you will be inflated with pride in favor of one person over another.

And you are inflated with pride, instead of filled with grief so that he who has committed this act might be removed from your congregation.

But God judges outsiders. Put away the evil person from among yourselves.

Run from sexual immorality! “Every sin a person can commit is outside the body.” On the contrary, the person who is sexually immoral sins against his own body.

Don’t you know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

I wish that all people were just like me. But each has his own gift from God, one person in this way and another in that way.

About virgins: I have no command from the Lord, but I do give an opinion as one who by the Lord’s mercy is trustworthy.

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

And I say this, brothers: The time is limited, so from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none,

and those who use the world as though they did not make full use of it. For this world in its current form is passing away.

But he who stands firm in his heart (who is under no compulsion, but has control over his own will) and has decided in his heart to keep his own virgin, will do well.

yet for us there is one God, the Father.
All things are from Him,
and we exist for Him.
And there is one Lord, Jesus Christ.
All things are through Him,
and we exist through Him.

Or do Barnabas and I alone have no right to refrain from working?

Who ever goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not drink the milk from the flock?

Am I saying this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the law also say the same thing?

If we have sown spiritual things for you, is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?

Don’t you know that those who perform the temple services eat the food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in the offerings of the altar?

Although I am a free man and not anyone’s slave, I have made myself a slave to everyone, in order to win more people.

and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from a spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ.

Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.

For man did not come from woman, but woman came from man.

For just as woman came from man, so man comes through woman, and all things come from God.

For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: On the night when He was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took bread,

Did the word of God originate from you, or did it come to you only?

Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say, “There is no resurrection of the dead”?

But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is different from that of the earthly ones.

There is a splendor of the sun, another of the moon, and another of the stars; for one star differs from another star in splendor.

The first man was from the earth
and made of dust;
the second man is from heaven.

If Timothy comes, see that he has nothing to fear from you, because he is doing the Lord’s work, just as I am.

Be alert, stand firm in the faith, act like a man, be strong.