each one's work shall be revealed. For the Day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try each one's work as to what kind it is.

For who makes you to differ from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

What do you desire? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and the spirit of meekness?

For what is it to me to also judge those who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside?

Now concerning what you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

For what do you know, O wife, whether you shall save your husband? Or what do you know, O man, whether you shall save your wife?

But if anyone thinks it behaving himself indecently toward his virgin (if she is past her prime, and so it ought to be) let him do what he will; he does not sin; let them marry.

What then is my reward? That when I preach the gospel I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I may not abuse my authority in the gospel.

No temptation has taken you but what is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but with the temptation also will make a way to escape, so that you may be able to bear it.

I speak as to wise men; you judge what I say.

What then do I say? That the idol is anything, or that an idolatrous sacrifice is anything?

For do you not have houses in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God, and shame those who do not have? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you for this? I do not praise you!

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

But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, what will I profit you, except I speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophecy, or in teaching?

Yet lifeless things giving a sound, whether flute or harp, if they do not give a distinction in the sound, how will it be known what is being piped or harped?

So also you, if you do not give a clear word through the language, how will it be known what is being said? For you will be speaking into the air.

What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with the mind; I will sing with the spirit, and I will also sing with the mind.

Else, if you bless in the spirit, he occupying the place of the unlearned, how will he say the amen at your giving of thanks, since he does not know what you say?

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace which was toward me has not been without fruit, but I labored more abundantly than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

Otherwise, what will they do, those being baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not at all raised, why indeed are they baptized on behalf of the dead?

If according to man I fought with beasts in Ephesus, what advantage is to me if the dead are not raised? "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!"

But someone will say, How are the dead raised up, and with what body do they come?

Foolish one! What you sow is not made alive unless it dies.

And what you sow, you do not sow the body that is going to be, but a bare grain (perhaps of wheat or of some of the rest).

On the first of the sabbaths let each of you put by himself, storing up what ever he is prospered, so that there may be no collections when I come.