While a man who is united with the Lord is one with Him in spirit?

Do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you, the Spirit whom you have from God?

To the rest it is I who am speaking, not the Lord. If any brother has a wife who is not a believer, if he is willing to live with her, let him not send her away.

For the slave who has been called in the Lord is the Lord's freedman; and in the same way, the free man who is called is Christ's slave.

I have no command from the Lord to give you concerning unmarried women; but I give you my opinion, and it is that of a man who, through the Lord's mercy, is deserving of your confidence.

Indeed, brothers, the time that remains to us has been shortened; so let those who have wives live as if they had none,

let those who weep be as though they did not weep, those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, those who buy as though they did not possess,

and those who use the world as though using it sparingly. For the present phase of the world is passing away.

Again, the woman who is widow, or the maid, is anxious about the Lord's business, how she may be pure in body and in mind; but the married woman is anxious about worldly affairs, how she may please her husband.

On the other hand, he who is firm in his purpose and is under no compulsion, but is free to carry out his own wishes, and who has determined to keep his daughter unmarried, does well.

So he that gives his daughter in marriage is doing right, and he who keeps her unmarried will be doing right, and he who keeps her unmarried will be doing better.

yet for there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

So he is lost, this weak man, lost by your "knowledge." this brother for whom Christ died.

Are we the only ones, Barnabas and I, who have no right to give up manual labor?

You know, do you not, that those who minister in the temple, and those who serve at the altar, get their portion of the sacrifices?

Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel.

Every man who contends in the games continually trains himself by all manner of self-restraint. Now they do it to get a fading garland, but we, one that is unfading.

Now these things were happening to them typically, but were written down for our admonition who stand at the meeting of the ages.

So then let him who imagines that he is standing so securely beware lest he fall.

No temptation has overtaken you that is beyond man's power; but God is faithful, who will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear, but will, with every temptation, provide the way of escape also, so that you may be able to withstand.

Because we who are many are one bread, one body, for we all do share in the one loaf.

Look at Israel according to the flesh; are not those who eat the sacrifices in communion with the altar?

If one who is not a believer invites you to his house, and you wish to go, eat everything that is set before you, without asking questions for conscience sake.

But if any one tells you, "This food has been offered in sacrifice," do not eat it, for the sake of him who told you,

Every man who prays or prophesies with head veiled dishonors his Head;

but every woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled dishonors her head (her husband). for it is one and the same thing as if she were shaven.

For it is not man who was made from woman, but woman was made from man.

What! Have you no houses in which to eat or drink? or do you wish to show your contempt for the church of God, and to shame those who have no homes to eat in? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I certainly do not praise you.

Wherefore I want you to understand that no one who speaks in the Spirit of God says, "Jesus is accursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except in the Holy Spirit.

and varieties of work, and the same God, who works in all.

For he who speaks in a "tongue" speaks not to man but to God, for no one understands him, but in the Spirit he utters secret truths.

But he who prophesies addresses words to men that build up, encourage, and console.

He who speaks in a tongue upbuilds himself; but he who prophesies upbuilds the church.

Now I should like you all to speak with "tongues"; but I should rather that you prophesied, For he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks with tongues, unless he interprets, so that the church may be built up.

If then I do not know the force of expression, I shall seem a barbarian to the one who uses it, and he will seem a barbarian to me.

So let him who speaks with tongues pray that he may interpret.

For if you in your spirit bless God, how shall he who fills the place of the unlearned say the Amen to your thanksgiving, when he does not know what you are talking about?

So then the gift of tongues is for a sign, not to believers, but to unbelievers; but prophecy is not for unbelievers, but for those who believe.

Afterward he was seen at one time by more than five hundred brethren, most of whom are still alive, but some are fallen asleep.

For I am the least of the apostles, I who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

More than that, we are detected in bearing false witness against God; because we testified of God that he raised Christ from the dead, whom he did not raise, if indeed the dead rise not.

More than that, those who are sleeping in Christ have perished.

But now, now, Christ is risen from the dead, the first-fruit of those who have fallen asleep.

But each in his own order; Christ the first-fruits, then those who belong to Christ at his appearing.

For He hast put all things under his feet, but in that quotation All things are put under him, it is evident that God is excepted, who put all things under Him.

For when everything is subjected to him, then the Son himself shall subject himself to Him who made them subject, that God may be all in all.

Else what shall they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are really not raised, why are they baptized for them?

Like him who was of earth, are the earthy; and like Him who is of heaven, are the heavenly;

As we have borne the likeness of him who was of earth, so also let us bear the likeness of Him who is of heaven.

But thanks be to God, who has given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

On my arrival I will send those whom you may accredit by letter to carry your bounty to Jerusalem.

who ever comforts me in all my troubles, so that I may be continually able to comfort those who are in any trouble by the comfort with which God is ever comforting me.

Indeed, I had in myself, and still have, the sentence of death, in order that I might not rely on myself, but on God who raises the dead to life.

For Jesus Christ, Son of God, who was proclaimed among you by us, that is, by Silvanus and Timothy and me, was not wavering between "Yes" and "No," but in him is the everlasting "Yes."

And he who has established me with you in the Anointed One, and has anointed me, is God.

for if I cause you grief, who is there to cause me joy except those whom I have grieved?

And for this very reason I wrote you, that I might not come only to be grieved by those who ought to give me joy; and because I trusted in you all, that my joy is the joy of all of you.

As to him who has been, and now is, causing pain, it is not I whom he has pained, but all of you??t least some of you (not to overstate the case).

But thanks be to God, who in every place is leading me in the train of Christ's triumph, and is making manifest through me the knowledge of him, an odor of incense everywhere.

I am Christ's fragrance upwafted unto God, among those who are being saved and those who are perishing;

to these latter an odor of death to death, to the former, of life to life. For such service as this, who is sufficient?

It is he who has also made me sufficient as a minister of a new covenant; not of a letter but of a spirit; for the letter kills, but the spirit makes alive.

I do not do as Moses did, who used to cover his face with a veil to keep the children of Israel from beholding the passing of a fading glory.

But even if my gospel, too, is "veiled," it is among those who are on the way to perish that it is "veiled."

For God who said, "Out of darkness light shall shine," is he who has shone in my heart, that the sunrise of the knowledge of God may shine forth in the face of Christ.

For I know that He who raised from the dead the Lord Jesus, will raise me also with Jesus, and set me at your side in his presence.

And He who has wrought me out for this very end is God, who has given me his Spirit as pledge.

I am not "commending myself to you again," but I am giving you an occasion of boasting on my behalf, so that you may have an answer ready for those who boast in externals, and not in the heart.

and that he died for all in order that the living may live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again for them.

And all this is from God, who through Christ reconciled me to himself, and gave me the ministry of reconciliation;

Him who knew no sin, in our behalf he has made to be sin; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

But the God who comforts the down-hearted comforted me by the coming of Titus,

So then, even if I did write to you, it was not for the sake of the wrong-doer, or of him who had been wronged, but to make clear to yourselves in the sight of God your earnest care for me.

even as it is written, He who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little did not lack.

But thanks be to God who has inspired in the heart of Titus the same zeal on your behalf that I have.

With them I am sending our brother of whose zeal I have often had proof in many ways, and who is now zealous because of his great confidence in you.

As for Titus, remember that he is a partner of mine, and is also my associate in labors for you. As for the other brothers, remember that they are delegates from the churches, men in whom Christ is glorified.

Mark this; he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly; and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

He who ever supplies seed to the sower, and bread for the food of man, will supply and make plentous your seed, and increase the harvest springing up from your almsgiving.

Now I Paul, myself, appeal to you by the humble-heartedness and selflessness of Christ??aul who "in your presence is humble, but bold enough when he is absent"??2 I beseech you, and I say, do not make me show my boldness, when I come in the boldness with which I think I shall show my courage against some who think that I am walking on the low level of the flesh.

Meanwhile. Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord.

If indeed some one is coming to preach another Jesus, whom I did not preach, or you are receiving a Spirit other than you once received, or another gospel which you did not accept before, you would do well to bear with me.

I am doing and will continue to do this in order to cut away the ground from under those who wish some cause for slander; and that the ground of their boasting may appear as does mine.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, but I burn with indignation?

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed forever, knows that I am telling the truth.

I know a Christian man who, fourteen years ago (whether in the body I know not, or out of the body, I know not. God knows), was caught up??his man of whom I speak??ven into the third heaven.

who was caught up into Paradise, and heard unutterable words which no human being is permitted to utter.

Did I make gain of you through any of those whom I sent to you?

and lest when I come again my God may humble me before you, and lest I shall mourn for many those who have sinned before, and have not repented of the impurity and immorality and wantonness which they have practised.

I have said formerly, and I now forewarn you as when I was present the second time, so now when I am absent the second time, so now when I am absent, saying to those who had sinned before, and to all the rest, "If I come again, I will not spare,"

Since you want a proof of Christ who is speaking in me, he who is not feeble toward you, but powerful among you.

Paul, an apostle sent not from men nor by any man, but by Jesus Christ and by God the Father who raised him from the dead;

with all the brothers who are with me. To the churches of Galatia greeting.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil age in accordance with the will of our God and Father,

to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

I am amazed that you are so soon shifting your ground, and deserting him who called you by the grace of Christ,

for another gospel, which indeed is not another; only there are certain individuals who are troubling you, and desiring to pervert the gospel of Christ.

But when God who had set me apart from my very birth,

or even going up to Jerusalem to see those who had been apostles before me, I went off at once to Arabia, and on my return came back to Damascus.

only they used to hear it said, "He who was once persecuting us is now preaching the gospel of the very faith which he once tried to ruin."