For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is God’s power to us who are being saved.

However, not everyone has this knowledge. In fact, some have been so used to idolatry up until now that when they eat food offered to an idol, their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

To those who are without that law, like one without the law—not being without God’s law but within Christ’s law—to win those without the law.

You know that when you were pagans, you used to be led off to the idols that could not speak.

For you may very well be giving thanks, but the other person is not being built up.

Otherwise what will they do who are being baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, then why are people baptized for them?

So it is written: The first man Adam became a living being; the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit.