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

But from him you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom to us from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who [is] from God, in order that we may know the things freely given to us by God,

Therefore do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord should come, who will both enlighten the hidden things of darkness and will reveal the counsels of hearts, and then praise will come to each one from God.

Already you are satiated! Already you are rich! Apart from us you reign as kings! And would that indeed you reigned as kings, in order that we also might reign as kings with you!

And you are inflated with pride, and should you not rather have mourned, so that the one who has done this deed would be removed from your midst?

But those outside God will judge. Remove the evil person {from among yourselves}.

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit [who is] in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

I wish all people could be like myself, but each one has his own gift from God, one in this way and another in that way.

To the married I command--not I, but the Lord--a wife must not separate from [her] husband.

Now concerning virgins I do not have a command from the Lord, but I am giving an opinion as one shown mercy by the Lord to be trustworthy.

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek release. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

But I say this, brothers: the time is shortened, that from now on even those who have wives should be as [if they] do not have [wives],

and those who make use of the world as [if they] do not make full use of [it]. For the present form of this world is passing away.

But I want you to be free from care. The unmarried person cares for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord.

But he who stands firm in his heart, not having necessity, but has authority concerning his own will, and has decided this in his own heart, to keep his own virgin, he will do well.

yet to us [there is] one God, the Father, from whom [are] all [things], and we [are] for him, and [there is] one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom [are] all [things], and we [are] through him.

Or do only I and Barnabas not have the right {to refrain from working}?

Who ever serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Who shepherds a flock and does not drink from the milk of the flock?

If we have sown spiritual [things] among you, [is it too] great [a thing] if we reap material [things] from you?

Do you not know that those performing the holy services eat the things from the temple, [and] those attending to the altar have a share with the altar?

In the [same] way also the Lord ordered those who proclaim the gospel to live from the gospel.

For [although I] am free from all [people], I have enslaved myself to all, in order that I may gain more.

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

Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.

Because [there is] one bread, [we] who [are] many are one body, for [we] all share from the one bread.

For man is not from woman, but woman from man.

Nevertheless, neither [is] woman [anything] apart from man, nor [is] man [anything] apart from woman in the Lord.

For just as the woman [is] from the man, thus also the man [is] through the woman. But all [things] [are] from God.

For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night in which he was betrayed, took bread,

But let a person examine himself, and in this way let him eat from the bread and let him drink from the cup.

Or has the word of God gone out from you, or has it come to you only?

Now if Christ is preached as raised up from the dead, how do some among you say that [there] is no resurrection of the dead?

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

[There is] one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars, for star differs from star in glory.

The first man [is] from the earth, made of earth; the second man [is] from heaven.

Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act courageously, be strong.