I give thanks to my God always concerning you, because of the grace of God which was given to you in Christ Jesus,

but we speak the hidden wisdom of God in a mystery, which God predestined before the ages for our glory,

which none of the rulers of this age knew. For if they had known [it], they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

But just as it is written, "[Things] which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and have not entered into the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love him."

[things] which we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in [words] taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual [things] to spiritual [people].

For no one is able to lay another foundation than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy this one. For God's temple is holy, which you are.

It is reported everywhere [that there] is sexual immorality among you, and sexual immorality of such a kind which [does] not [even exist] among the Gentiles, so that someone has the wife of [his] father.

Now concerning [the things] about which you wrote: "[It is] good for a man not to touch a woman."

Each one in the calling in which he was called--in this he should remain.

Each one in [the situation] in which he was called, brothers--in this he should remain with God.

Now [if you] sin in this way against the brothers and wound their conscience, which is weak, you sin against Christ.

The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?

[No], but that [the things] which they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become sharers with demons.

If I partake with thankfulness, why am I slandered concerning that for which I give thanks?

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,

and [after he] had given thanks, he broke [it] and said, "This is my body which [is] for you. Do this in remembrance of me."

But by much more the members of the body which are thought to be weaker are necessary,

and [the parts] of the body which we think to be less honorable, these we clothe with more abundant honor, and our unpresentable [parts] come to have more abundant presentability,

but our presentable [parts] do not have need [of this]. Yet God composed the body by giving more abundant honor to the part which lacked [it],

Likewise, the inanimate things which produce a sound, whether flute or lyre, if they do not produce a distinction in the tones, how will it be known what is played on the flute or on the lyre?

If anyone thinks he is a prophet or spiritual, he should recognize that [the things] which I am writing to you are of the Lord.

Now I make known to you, brothers, the gospel which I proclaimed to you, which you have also received, in which you also stand,

by which you are also being saved, if you hold fast to the message I proclaimed to you, unless you believed to no purpose.

I die every day--yes indeed, by my boasting in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord!

And what you sow [is] not the body which it will become, but you sow the bare seed, whether perhaps of wheat or of some of the rest.