These disclosures we impart, not in the set phrases of human philosophy, but in words the Spirit teaches, giving spiritual truth a spiritual form.

If it was we who sowed the spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?

You must not become idolaters, like some of them, for the Scripture says, "The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to dance."

And let two or three who are inspired to preach speak, while the rest weigh what is said;

So, my brothers, set your hearts on being inspired to preach, and yet do not hinder people from speaking ecstatically.

You foolish man, the very seed you sow never comes to life without dying first;

and God gives it just such a form as he pleases, so that each kind of seed has a form of its own.

and I will probably stay some time with you, or even pass the winter, so that you may start me off for wherever I may be going.

But I shall stay in Ephesus until the Harvest Festival,