Yet if you do not marry, you have not done wrong; and if a girl marries, she has not done wrong. Such people, however, will have trouble in worldly affairs, and I wish to spare you.

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.

A wife is bound to her husband during his lifetime; but if her husband dies, she is free to marry whomever she will, provided it be in the Lord.

Therefore, if what I eat makes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, lest I make my brother to stumble.

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.

If any one is hungry, let him eat at home, so that your meetings do not bring condemnation upon you. The other matters I will adjust when I come.

Desire earnestly the greater gifts. And yet I will go on to show you a still more excellent way.

Love never fails; but though there are prophecies, they will fail; though there are tongues, they will cease; though there is knowledge, it will be superseded.

but when the perfect is come, then the perfect will be done away.

Or, for example, if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, what soldier will be prepared for battle?

In the same way with you, if you utter unintelligible words with your tongue, how can what you say be understood? You will be speaking to the winds!

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.

What then? I will pray with my spirit, and I will pray also with my mind. I will praise God with my spirit, but I will praise him with my mind, also.

In the Law it is written. With men of other tongues, and by the lips of strangers, will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.

Accordingly, when the whole church assemblies, and everybody is speaking "with tongues," if there enter men unlearned or unbelieving, will they not say that you are mad?

and the secret depths of his heart are laid open. So he will fall upon his face and worship God, saying, "Of a truth, God is with you."

But if any one disregard it he will be disregarded.

For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

The last enemy that will be destroyed is Death.

If after the manner of men I have fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what good does it do me? If the dead do not rise, Let us eat and drink, For we shall be dead tomorrow.

But some one will ask. "How are the dead raised? and with what body are they coming?"

And when you sow the seed you are not sowing the body that it will become, but bare grain, of wheat perhaps, or some other grain.

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, when the last trumpet sounds. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised, incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

And when this mortal has been clothed with immortality, then will the words of Scripture come to pass, Death has been swallowed up in victory.

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

And if it is worth while for me to go too, they will accompany me.

As for our Apollos, I have many times urged him to go to you with the others, but he was always unwilling to go to you at this time. He will come, however, whenever he has a good opportunity.

To the Church of God which is in Corinth, and to all the saints throughout Greece. from Paul, by God's will an apostle of Christ, and from brother Timothy.

He delivered me from such a death, and will deliver me. On him I have set my hopes that he will continue to deliver me,

For I am writing to you nothing different from what you read aloud and very well recognize, and I hope will continue to recognize to the very end,

as some indeed did recognize in part at last, that I am your cause of boasting, just as you will be mine on the Day of Jesus our Lord.

For if that which was fading came in glory, far more will that which ever abides be glorious.

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 what compact has God's temple with idols? For we are a temple of the living God, as he has said: I will dwell among them, and walk about among them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.

then I will receive you and will be to you a Father, and you shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

For I can testify that according to their ability, and even beyond their ability, of their own free will, too, they have given help.

And this not as I had expected, but in accordance with the will of God, they first gave themselves to God and to me.

And I will give you my opinion in this matter; for this offering is fitting in your case, considering that you made a beginning before others, not only in the willingness to do something but also in actually doing something a year ago.

So now complete the doing of it also, in order that just as there was the readiness to will, so there may be the accomplishment according to your means.

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.

You yourselves will be enriched with all good things, that you may give ungrudgingly; and your gifts, of which I am the agent, will make men give thanks to God.

Moreover, in their prayers for you they will be longing after you, because of the exceeding grace of God that is resting upon you.

Let such a man assure himself that my actions, when I am present, will be just like my words in my letters when I am absent.

I, however, will not indulge in undue boasting, but will confine it within the limits of the sphere to which God has assigned me?? sphere which reaches even to you.

Even when I lacked the actual necessities of life while I was with you, I was a burden to no one; for whatever I lacked, the brothers from Macedonia supplied, when they came. So I kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will continue to do so.

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.

It is no great marvel, then, if his ministers also disguise themselves as ministers of righteousness. Their end will be according to their works.

I am forced to boast, though it is unprofitable, but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.

Of such a one I will boast; but on my own behalf I will not boast except in my weaknesses.

Most gladly therefore will I boast rather of my weakness, that over me like a tent may be pitched the power of Christ. That is why I rejoice in weakness, in ill-treatment, in troubles, in persecutions and calamities for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

And now for the third time I am preparing to visit you. I will not be a burden to you, for I am not seeking yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

For my part, I will most gladly spend, yea, and will myself be spent, for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I to be loved the less?

This will be my third visit to you. Out of the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be confirmed.

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,"

But I hope you will find that I abide the proof.

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,

Are you so without sense? After beginning with the Spirit, will you now end with the flesh?

These men are courting your favor to no good purpose. They want to isolate you, so that you will be courting their favor.

Listen to me! I, Paul, declare to you that if you are to continue to follow the rite of circumcision, Christ will be no profit to you.

As for me, I am fully trusting you in the Lord that you will be no otherwise minded; but he who is trying to unsettle you will have to bear his punishment, whoever he may be.

This is my meaning. Let your steps be guided by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

Let each one test his own work, and he will then have something to be proud of by comparing himself with himself, and not with any one else;

Be not deceived. God is not mocked. Whatever a man sows, that will he also reap.

The man who is sowing to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption; but he who is sowing to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap life eternal.

On all who will govern their lives by this rule and on the Israel of God may peace and mercy rest.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus and to the faithful in Christ Jesus,

For in his love he predestined us (such was the good pleasure of his will) to adoption for himself as sons through Jesus Christ,

It is he in whom we Jews also have our inheritance, having been chosen beforehand according to the purpose of Him who executes all things according to the counsel of his will,

For this reason do not be thoughtless, but learn to know what the Lord's will is.

not with eye service, as men-pleasers, but as the slaves of Christ, doing the will of God;

slaving with good-will from your heart, as for the Lord and not for men;

And take up to cover you the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the flaming darts of the Evil One.

But that you also may know my affairs and how I do, Tychicus, my beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, will make everything known to you.

Of this I am fully persuaded, that He who has begun a good work in you will go on completing it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Some indeed are preaching Christ out of envy and contentiousness, but others from good-will.

What of it? In any case, whether in pretence or in honest truth, Christ is still preached, and in that I am rejoicing, yes, and will rejoice.

For I know that these things will turn out to my salvation through your prayers and a rich supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

for it is God who, in his good-will is ever working in you both will and deed.

holding out a message of life. Thus it will be my boast at the day of Christ that I have not run in vain, or toiled for nothing.

I will rejoice and congratulate you all; and in the same way you must rejoice and congratulate me.

So I hope to send him, as soon as ever I see how it will go with me;

Let us all then, who are mature Christians, strive for this! God will make this clear to any of you who are striving for other goals;

who will change the fashion of the body of our abasement into the likeness of his glorious body by the energy with which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

Rejoice in the Lord alway, and again will I say, rejoice!

and the peace of God, which passes all understanding, will stand guard over your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

All your own needs my God will fully supply, according to his riches in glory, in Christ Jesus.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

For this reason from the day I heard of it I have never ceased to pray for you, asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will with every kind of wisdom and spiritual insight;

And this he will do if, indeed, you continue in the faith, firmly founded and stedfast, and never moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, and which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, that gospel of which I, Paul, was made a minister.

Let no man at his will defraud you of your prize through his false humility and worship of the angels, taking his stand on the visions he has seen, and vainly puffed up by his material mind;

When Christ, who is our life, appears, then will you also appear with him in glory.

But now you also must renounce them all. Anger, passion, and ill-will must be put away; slander, too, and foul talk, so that they may never soil your lips.

You know that from the Lord you will receive reward of the inheritance, for you are the Lord Christ's slaves.

For he who wrongs another will be paid back for his wrong-doing, and there will be no favoritism.

Tychicus, my beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow slave in the Lord, will make known to you all that concerns me.

They will inform you of all that goes on here.

Epaphras, one of yourselves, salutes you, a slave of Christ who is always agonizing for you in his prayers, that you may stand firm, mature, and fully assured in all the will of God.

For this is God's will, even your sanctification; that you should abstain from sexual vice.

For if we really believe that Jesus died and rose again, so even so will God through Jesus bring with him those also who have fallen asleep.