But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.

If anyone defiles the temple of God, God shall destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which you are.

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool so that he may be wise.

For as being absent in body but present in spirit, I indeed have judged already as though I were present concerning him who worked out this thing;

But to the rest I speak, not the Lord, If any brother has a wife who does not believe, and she is pleased to dwell with him, do not let him put her away.

And the woman who has a husband who does not believe, if he is pleased to dwell with her, do not let her leave him.

But if the unbelieving one separates, let him be separated. A brother or a sister is not in bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

But as God has distributed to each one, as the Lord has called each one, so let him walk. And so I ordain in all churches.

But if anyone thinks it behaving himself indecently toward his virgin (if she is past her prime, and so it ought to be) let him do what he will; he does not sin; let them marry.

But if any one loves God, he has been known of him.

but there is to us only one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we by Him.

Nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted Him and were destroyed by serpents.

So let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.

But if anyone says to you, This is slain in sacrifice to idols, do not eat for the sake of him who showed it, and for conscience' sake; "for the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness of it";

Does not even nature itself teach you that if man has long hair, it is a shame to him?

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup.

But if anyone hungers, let him eat at home, so that you do not come together to condemnation. And the rest I will set in order when I come.

But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body as it has pleased Him.

Therefore if I do not know the power of the sound, I will be a foreigner to him speaking, and he speaking will be a foreigner to me.

So then he speaking in a language, let him pray that he may interpret.

But if there is no interpreter, let him be silent in a church; and let him speak to himself and to God.

If anyone thinks to be a prophet, or a spiritual one, let him recognize the things I write to you, that they are a commandment of the Lord.

But if any is ignorant, let him be ignorant.

for it is right for Him to reign until He has put all the enemies under His feet.

For He put all things under His feet. But when He says that all things have been put under His feet, it is plain that it excepts Him who has put all things under Him.

But when all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subject to Him who has subjected all things to Him, so that God may be all things in all.

And God gives it a body as it has pleased Him, and to each of the seeds its own body.

Therefore let not any despise him, but set him forward in peace, so that he may come to me; for I am waiting for him with the brothers.

As regards our brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to come to you with the brothers, but it was not altogether his will that he come now. But he will come when he has opportunity.

If anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. The Lord comes!

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us; by me and Silas and Timothy; was not yes and no, but in Him was, yes!

For all the promises of God in Him are yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God by us.

so that, on the contrary, you should rather forgive and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overwhelming sorrow.

So I beseech you to confirm your love toward him.

But to whom you forgive anything, I also forgive. For if I forgave anything, for your sakes I forgave it to him in the person of Christ;

Now thanks be to God, who always causes us to triumph in Christ, and He revealing through us the odor of the knowledge of Him in every place.

Therefore we are also laboring to be well-pleasing to Him, whether at home or away from home.

and He died for all, that the living ones may live no more to themselves, but to Him who died for them and having been raised.

So as we now know no one according to flesh, but even if we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we no longer know Him so.

For He has made Him who knew no sin, to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

For if I have boasted anything about you to him, I was not ashamed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, even so our boasting as to Titus became truth.

And his tender feelings are more abundant toward you, remembering the obedience of you all, as you received him with fear and trembling.

And we have sent with him the brothers whose praise is in the gospel throughout all the churches;

Each one, as he purposes in his heart, let him give; not of grief, or of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Do you look at things according to appearance? If anyone has persuaded himself that he is Christ's, let him think this again as to himself, that as he is Christ's, even so we are Christ's.

But he who glories, let him glory in the Lord.

By any whom I have sent to you, did I overreach you by him?

I begged Titus and sent with him the brother. Did Titus overreach you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? Did we not walk in the same steps?

for even if He was crucified out of weakness, yet He lives by the power of God. For indeed even we are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by the power of God toward you),

Paul, an apostle (not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead),

I marvel that you so soon are being moved away from Him who called you into the grace of Christ, to another gospel,

But even if we or an angel from Heaven preach a gospel to you beside what we preached to you, let him be accursed.

As we said before, and now I say again, If anyone preaches a gospel to you beside what you have received, let him be accursed.

to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the nations, immediately I did not confer with flesh and blood;

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days.

But when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was to be blamed.

And the rest of the Jews also dissembled with him, so as even Barnabas was led away with their dissembling.

Even as Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.

But then even as he born according to flesh persecuted him born according to the Spirit, so it is also now.

This persuasion is not from Him who calls you.

But let him who is taught in the Word share with the one teaching in all good things.

according as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace,

for an administration of the fullness of times, to head up all things in Christ, both the things in Heaven, and the things on earth, even in Him,

in whom also we have been chosen to an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His own will,

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him,

which He worked in Christ in raising Him from the dead, and He seated Him at His right hand in the heavenlies,

And He has put all things under His feet and gave Him to be Head over all things to the church,

which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.

Now to Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, forever. Amen.

But that you, speaking the truth in love, may in all things grow up to Him who is the Head, even Christ;

if indeed you have heard Him and were taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus.

Let him who stole steal no more, but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, so that he may have something to give to him who needs.

And masters, do the same things to them, forbearing threatening, knowing that your Master also is in Heaven. There is no respect of persons with Him.

For to you it is given on behalf of Christ not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer for His sake,

Therefore God has highly exalted Him, and has given Him a name which is above every name,

But you know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he has served with me in the gospel.

Therefore I hope to send him presently, as soon as I shall see the things about me.

For indeed he was sick, coming near death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

Therefore I sent him the more eagerly, so that you may rejoice when you see him again, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

Therefore receive him in the Lord with all gladness, and hold such in honor,

and be found in Him; not having my own righteousness, which is of the Law, but through the faith of Christ, the righteousness of God by faith,

that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable to His death;

For all things were created in Him, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers, all things were created through Him and for Him.

And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist.

For it pleased the Father that in Him all fullness should dwell.

And through Him having made peace through the blood of His cross, it pleased the Father to reconcile all things to Himself through Him, whether the things on earth or the things in Heaven.

For which I also labor, striving according to the working of Him who works in me in power.

Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,

rooted and built up in Him, and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.

And you are complete in Him, who is the Head of all principality and power,

buried with Him in baptism, in whom also you were raised through the faith of the working of God, raising Him from the dead.

And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,

When Christ our Life is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.

and having put on the new, having been renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,

And everything, whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by Him.