No, as it is written, what no eye has ever seen, what no ear has ever heard, what never entered the mind of man, God has prepared all that for those who love him.

I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but it was God who made the seed grow.

So neither planter nor waterer counts, but God alone who makes the seed grow.

But see that the exercise of your right does not prove any stumbling-block to the weak.

Suppose anyone sees you, a person of enlightened mind, reclining at meat inside an idol's temple; will that really 'fortify his weak conscience'? Will it not embolden him to violate his scruples of conscience by eating food that has been offered to idols?

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not the work I have accomplished in the Lord?

At present we only see the baffling reflections in a mirror, but then it will be face to face; at present I am learning bit by bit, but then I shall understand, as all along I have myself been understood.

and that he was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve;

after that, he was seen by over five hundred brothers all at once, the majority of whom survive to this day, though some have died;

after that, he was seen by James, then by all the apostles,

and finally he was seen by myself, by this so-called 'abortion' of an apostle.

And what you sow is not the body that is to be; it is a mere grain of wheat, for example, or some other seed.

God gives it a body as he pleases, gives each kind of seed a body of its own.

When Timotheus arrives, see that you make him feel quite at home with you; he carries on the work of the Lord as I do.