But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and blood and water came out immediately.

Now a certain man {named} Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property,

Indeed, [he] who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also, together with him, freely give us all [things]?

For if God did not spare the {natural} branches, neither will he spare you.

But if you marry, you have not sinned, and if the virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such people will have affliction in the flesh, and I would spare you.

Therefore, [when] you come together in the same [place], it is not to eat the Lord's supper.

For [when you] eat [it], each one of you goes ahead to take his own supper, and one is hungry and another is drunk.

So then, my brothers, [when you] come together in order to eat [the Lord's supper], wait for one another.

Sober up correctly and {stop sinning}, for some have no knowledge of God--I say [this] to your shame.

But I call upon God [as] witness against my life, that [in order to] spare you, I did not come again to Corinth.

I have already said when was present the second time, and [although I] am absent now also say in advance to those who sinned previously and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare [anyone],

But [because] we are of the day, we must be sober, [by] putting on the breastplate of faith and love and [as] a helmet the hope of salvation,

Now the end of all [things] draws near. Therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for [your] prayers.

Be sober; be on the alert. Your adversary the devil walks around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but held [them] captive in Tartarus with chains of darkness [and] handed [them] over to be kept for judgment,

and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a proclaimer of righteousness, {and seven others} [when he] brought a flood on the world of the ungodly,