When I came to you, brothers, announcing the testimony of God to you, I did not come with brilliance of speech or wisdom.

we labor, working with our own hands. When we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;

when we are slandered, we respond graciously. Even now, we are like the world’s garbage, like the dirt everyone scrapes off their sandals.

When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus with my spirit and with the power of our Lord Jesus,

Do not deprive one another sexually—except when you agree for a time, to devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again; otherwise, Satan may tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

However, each one must live his life in the situation the Lord assigned when God called him. This is what I command in all the churches.

Was anyone already circumcised when he was called? He should not undo his circumcision. Was anyone called while uncircumcised? He should not get circumcised.

However, not everyone has this knowledge. In fact, some have been so used to idolatry up until now that when they eat food offered to an idol, their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

Now when you sin like this against the brothers and wound their weak conscience, you are sinning against Christ.

For to begin with, I hear that when you come together as a church there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.

Therefore, when you come together, it is not really to eat the Lord’s Supper.

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,

but when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord, so that we may not be condemned with the world.

Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

You know that when you were pagans, you used to be led off to the idols that could not speak.

But when the perfect comes,
the partial will come to an end.

When I was a child,
I spoke like a child,
I thought like a child,
I reasoned like a child.
When I became a man,
I put aside childish things.

Then comes the end, when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father, when He abolishes all rule and all authority and power.

For God has put everything under His feet. But when it says “everything” is put under Him, it is obvious that He who puts everything under Him is the exception.

And when everything is subject to Christ, then the Son Himself will also be subject to the One who subjected everything to Him, so that God may be all in all.

But someone will say, “How are the dead raised? What kind of body will they have when they come?”

When this corruptible is clothed
with incorruptibility,
and this mortal is clothed
with immortality,
then the saying that is written will take place:
Death has been swallowed up in victory.

On the first day of the week, each of you is to set something aside and save in keeping with how he prospers, so that no collections will need to be made when I come.

When I arrive, I will send with letters those you recommend to carry your gracious gift to Jerusalem.

About our brother Apollos: I strongly urged him to come to you with the brothers, but he was not at all willing to come now. However, he will come when he has an opportunity.