Now the one who plants and the one who waters are one, but each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building upon [it]. But each one must direct his attention to how he is building upon [it].

If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but so as through fire.

But to me it is a very little matter that I be judged by you or by a human court, but I do not [even] judge myself.

For I am conscious of nothing against myself, but not by this am I vindicated. But the one who judges me is the Lord.

For who concedes you [superiority]? And what do you have that you did not receive? But if indeed you received [it], why do you boast as [if you] did not receive [it]?

We [are] fools for the sake of Christ, but you [are] prudent in Christ! We [are] weak, but you [are] strong! You [are] honored, but we [are] dishonored!

I am not writing these [things] to shame you, but admonishing [you] as my dear children.

But some have become arrogant, as [if] I were not coming to you.

But I am coming to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will know not the talk of the ones who have become arrogant, but the power.

For the kingdom of God [is] not with talk, but with power.

For [although I] am absent in body but present in spirit, I have already passed judgment on the one who has done this in this way, as [if I] were present.

So then, let us celebrate the feast, not with the old leaven or with the leaven of wickedness and sinfulness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

But now I have written to you not to associate with any so-called brother, if he is a sexually immoral person or a greedy person or an idolater or an abusive person or a drunkard or a swindler--with such a person not even to eat.

But those outside God will judge. Remove the evil person {from among yourselves}.

But brother goes to court with brother, and this before unbelievers!

But you wrong and defraud, and [do] this [to] brothers!

And some of you were these [things], but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

All [things] are permitted for me, but not all [things] are profitable. All [things] are permitted for me, but I will not be controlled by anything.

Food [is] for the stomach, and the stomach for food, but God will abolish {both of them}. Now the body [is] not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit [with him].

Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a person commits is outside his body, but the one who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

But because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife and let each woman have her own husband.

The wife does not have authority over her own body, but her husband [does]. And likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but his wife [does].

But I say this as a concession, not as a command.

I wish all people could be like myself, but each one has his own gift from God, one in this way and another in that way.

But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn [with sexual desire].

To the married I command--not I, but the Lord--a wife must not separate from [her] husband.

But if indeed she does separate, she must remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce [his] wife.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the brother, since otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

But if the unbeliever leaves, let him leave. The brother or the sister is not bound in such [cases]. But God has called us in peace.

But to each one as the Lord has apportioned. As God has called each one, thus let him live--and thus I order in all the churches.

Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

Were you called [while] a slave? Do not let it be a concern to you. But if indeed you are able to become free, rather make use of [it].

Now concerning virgins I do not have a command from the Lord, but I am giving an opinion as one shown mercy by the Lord to be trustworthy.

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.

But I say this, brothers: the time is shortened, that from now on even those who have wives should be as [if they] do not have [wives],

But I want you to be free from care. The unmarried person cares for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord.

But the one who is married cares for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

and he is divided. And the unmarried woman or the virgin cares for the things of the Lord, in order that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But the married woman cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

Now I am saying this for your own benefit, not that I may put a restriction on you, but to promote appropriate and devoted service to the Lord without distraction.

But if anyone thinks he is behaving dishonorably concerning his virgin, if she is past her prime and it ought to be thus, let him do what he wishes. He does not sin. Let them marry.

But he who stands firm in his heart, not having necessity, but has authority concerning his own will, and has decided this in his own heart, to keep his own virgin, he will do well.

A wife is bound for as long a time [as] her husband lives. But if her husband {dies}, she is free to marry whomever she wishes, only in the Lord.

But she is happier if she remains thus, according to my opinion--and I think I have the Spirit of God.

Now concerning food sacrificed to idols, we know that "we all have knowledge." Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

But if anyone loves God, this one is known by him.

But this knowledge [is] not in everyone. But some, being accustomed until now to the idol, eat [this food] as food sacrificed to idols, and their conscience, [because it] is weak, is defiled.

But food does not bring us close to God. For neither if we eat do we have more, nor if we do not eat do we lack.

But watch out lest somehow this right of yours becomes a cause for stumbling to the weak.

If others share this right over you, do we not [do so] even more? Yet we have not made use of this right, but we endure all [things], in order that we may not cause any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

But I have not made use of any of these [rights]. And I am not writing these [things] in order that it may be thus with me. For [it would be] better to me rather to die than [for] anyone to deprive me of my reason for boasting.

For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward, but if [I do so] unwillingly, I have been entrusted with a stewardship.

To those outside the law [I became] as outside the law ([although I] am not outside the law of God, but subject to the law of Christ) in order that I may gain those outside the law.

Do you not know that those who run in the stadium all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.

And everyone who competes exercises self-control in all [things]. Thus those [do so] in order that they may receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable [one].

But I discipline my body and subjugate [it], lest somehow [after] preaching to others, myself should become disqualified.

But God was not pleased with the majority of them, for they were struck down in the desert.

Now these [things] happened to those [people] as an example, but are written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

Temptation has not come upon you except [what is] common to humanity. But God [is] faithful, who will not permit you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but will also make a way out together with the temptation, [so that you] may be able to endure [it].

[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.

All [things] are permitted, but not all [things] are profitable. All [things] are permitted, but not all [things] build up.

Let no one seek {his own good} but the [good] of the other.

But if someone says to you, "This is offered to idols," do not eat [it], for the sake of that one who informed [you] and the conscience.

Now I am not speaking about your own conscience, but the [conscience] of the other [person]. For why [is] my freedom judged by another's conscience?

just as I also please all [people] in all [things], not seeking my own benefit, but the [benefit] of the many, in order that they may be saved.

But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and the man [is the] head of the woman, and [the] head of Christ [is] God.

but every woman who prays or prophesies with uncovered head dishonors her head, for she is one and the same with the one whose [head] is shaved.

For if a woman does not cover herself, let her [hair] be shorn off. But if [it is] shameful for a woman to [have her head] shorn or shaved, let her cover her [head].

For indeed a man ought not to cover his head, [because he] is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.

For man is not from woman, but woman from man.

For indeed man was not created for the sake of the woman, but woman for the sake of the man.

For just as the woman [is] from the man, thus also the man [is] through the woman. But all [things] [are] from God.

But a woman, if she wears long hair, it is her glory, because her hair is given for a covering.

But if anyone is disposed to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God.

But in giving this instruction I do not praise [you], because you come together not for the better but for the worse.

But let a person examine himself, and in this way let him eat from the bread and let him drink from the cup.

But if we were evaluating ourselves, we would not be judged.

But [if we] are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined, in order that we will not be condemned with the world.

Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit,

and there are varieties of activities, but the same God, who works all [things] in all [people].

But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for what is beneficial [to all].

But in all these [things] one and the same Spirit is at work, distributing to each one individually just as he wishes.

For just as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of the body, [although they] are many, are one body, thus also Christ.

For the body is not one member, but many.

But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body just as he wanted.

But now [there are] many members, but one body.

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

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],

in order that there not be a division in the body, but the members would have the same concern for one another.

But strive for the greater gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a ringing brass gong or a clashing cymbal.

And if I have [the gift of] prophecy and I know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that [I can] remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

And if I parcel out all my possessions, and if I hand over my body in order that I will be burned, but do not have love, it benefits [me] nothing.

[it] does not rejoice at unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth,

Love never ends. But if [there are] prophecies, they will pass away. If [there are] tongues, they will cease. If [there is] knowledge, it will pass away.

but whenever the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.

For now we see through a mirror {indirectly}, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know completely, just as I have also been completely known.

And now these three [things] remain: faith, hope, [and] love. But the greatest of these [is] love.

Pursue love, and strive for spiritual [gifts], but especially that you may prophesy.