If his work is burned up, he will suffer loss. However, he himself will be saved, but it will be like going through fire.

We are hungry, thirsty, dressed in rags, brutally treated, and homeless, right up to the present.

However, if a man stands firm in his resolve, feels no necessity, and has made up his mind to keep her a virgin, he will be acting appropriately.

Now concerning food offered to idols: We know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

Let's stop being idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to play."

Everything is permissible, but not everything is helpful. Everything is permissible, but not everything builds up.

She bears up under everything; believes the best in all; there is no limit to her hope, and never will she fall.

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, and reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up my childish ways.

The person who speaks in a foreign language builds himself up, but the person who prophesies builds up the church.

Now I wish that all of you could speak in foreign languages, but especially that you could prophesy. The person who prophesies is more important than the person who speaks in a foreign language, unless he interprets it so that the church may be built up.

In the same way, since you're so desirous of spiritual gifts, you must keep on desiring them for building up the church.

It's good for you to give thanks, but it does not build up the other person.

Now, when what is decaying is clothed with what cannot decay, and what is dying is clothed with what cannot die, then the written word will be fulfilled: "Death has been swallowed up by victory!"