If any one tear down God's sanctuary, God will tear him down; for the sanctuary of God is holy, and that is what you are.

Now these things, brothers, I have applied in a figure to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that in us you might learn not to go beyond what is written; that none of you be puffed up for the one, against the other.

For who makes you a differ, brother? Or what have you that you did not receive? But if you did receive it, why are you boasting as if you had not received it?

But what I wrote was that you were not to associate with any so-called brother who is immoral, or avaricious, or idolatrous, or abusive, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. No, with such persons do not even sit at table.

What have I to do with the judging of outsiders? Must not you judge those who are within the church, while God judges outsiders?

But what I have just said is by way of concession, not command.

If, however, a father feels that he is not treating his virgin daughter in a seemly manner, in leaving her unmarried beyond the flower of her age, and so the matter is urgent, let him do what she desires; he commits no sin. Let the marriage take place.

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

What soldier ever serves at his own expense? What farmer ever plants a vineyard and his flock and does not taste the milk?

What then is my wage? This, that I can make the gospel free where I carry it; and that I can refrain from using my rights as a preacher of the gospel.

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.

I am speaking to men of sense; do you yourselves judge what I say.

What then shall we say? that an offering to an idol is anything? or that an idol is really anything?

On the contrary, what the heathen sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have communion with demons.

What! would we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

What! Have you no houses in which to eat or drink? or do you wish to show your contempt for the church of God, and to shame those who have no homes to eat in? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I certainly do not praise you.

Now brothers, if I should come to you speaking with tongues, what should I benefit you, unless I speak to you some revelation, or knowledge, or prophecy, or teaching?

For if lifeless instruments such as the flute or the harp give no distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is fluted or harped?

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!

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.

For if you in your spirit bless God, how shall he who fills the place of the unlearned say the Amen to your thanksgiving, when he does not know what you are talking about?

What follows, then, brothers? Whenever you meet together, each contributes something; a psalm, a sermon, a revelation, a tongue, an interpretation. Let all be done for edification.

What, was it from you that the word of God went forth, or to you only did it come?

If any one thinks himself a prophet or spiritual, let him recognize that what I am now writing you is a command of the Lord.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and that grace of his, bestowed upon me, did not prove ineffectual. I labored more abundantly than all the rest, yet not I, but by the grace of God that is with me.

Else what shall they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are really not raised, why are they baptized for them?

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?"

But God gives it what body he pleases, and to each kind of seed its own body.

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,

In purposing this did I display "caprice"? Or what I purpose do I purpose in a worldly way, so that it may mean either "Yes, yes," or "No, no"?

For in this tent of mine I am groaning in deep trouble; not that I wish to be unclothed, but to be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up in life.

So, because I know the fear of God, I "persuade men." What I am is manifest to God, and I hope manifest also to your conscience.

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? what communion has light with darkness?

What concord has Christ with Belial? What portion has a believer with an unbeliever?

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.

Therefore, Come out from among them and separate yourselves, saith the Lord, touch not what is unclean;

Note the results of this pain which God permitted; what earnestness it has called forth in you, what explanations, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what fervor, what punishment of wrong. In every way you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter.

This is what comforts me. In addition to this comfort of mine, I have been made still happier by the happiness of Titus; because his spirit was refreshed by you all.

For if there be first willing mind, the gift is accepted according to what a man has, and not according to what he has not.

What I am about to say I am not speaking by the Lord's command, but as it were in pure folly, in this boldness of boasting.

If I should choose to continue boasting I should not be foolish, for I should be speaking the truth. But I refrain, lest by the stupendous grandeur of the revelation any one should estimate me beyond what he sees in me, or hears from me.

In what respect, then, were you inferior to the other churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!

And my prayer to God is that you may do no evil; not in order that I may appear approved, but that you may do what is noble, though I should seem unable to abide the proof.

(In what I am now writing, I call God to witness that I am telling the truth.)

Answer me this one question. "When you received the Spirit, was it from doing what the Law commands or from believing the message heard?"

Does he then who supplies you with his Spirit and works miracles among you, do it because you do what the law commands of because you believe the message heard?

To what purpose, then, was the Law? It was imposed later for the sake of transgressions, until the "Offspring" should come to whom the promise had been made. It was arranged through angels by the hand of a mediator.

What I mean is this. As long as the heir is a child, he differs in no respect from a slave, though he be the owner of the whole inheritance;

But what does the Scripture say? Send away the slave-woman and her son; for the slave's son shall not be heir along with the son of the free woman.

See with what large letters I have written to you in my own handwriting!

and that the eyes of your heart may be flooded with light so that you may understand what is the hope of his calling, what the wealth of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

and what the surpassing greatness of his might in us who believe, as seen in the energy of that resistless might

By reading what I have written, you can judge of my insight into that secret truth of Christ

that you may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is "the breadth," "the length," "the depth," and "the height,"

Examine carefully what is well pleasing to the Lord,

but all these things, when exposed, are by the light made manifest, and what is made manifest is light.

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

I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has turned out rather to help than to the hindrance of the gospel.

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 it was through the work of the Lord that he came near to death; for he hazarded his very life to supply what was lacking in the help you sent me.

But what was once gain to me, that I have counted loss for Christ.

Brothers, I do not regard myself to have yet laid hold of it; but this one thing I do, forgetting what is behind me, but straining every nerve toward that which lies ahead,

Put in practise also what you have learned and received and heard and seen in me; and the God of peace shall be with you.

But I give you a receipt in full for all things abound. I am amply supplied with what you sent by Epaphroditus??n odor of sweet fragrance, a sacrifice acceptable, well pleasing to God.

I am now rejoicing in my sufferings on your behalf; and I am filling up in my own body what is yet lacking of the sufferings of Christ in behalf of the church, his Body.

Therefore do not permit any one to sit in judgment on you in regard to what you may eat or drink, or in regard to feast-days or new moons or sabbaths.

For what is my hope, or joy? What is the victor's wreath in which I exult? What but your own selves in the presence of our Lord Jesus, at his coming!

For what thanksgiving can I render again to God in your behalf, in return for all the joy which you cause me in the presence of my God?

For you know what charges I laid upon you through the Lord Jesus.

Take care that none of you ever return evil for evil, but always pursue what is kind to one another and to all.

And now you know what is holding him back, to the end that he may be revealed in his appointed time.

Now we have fully fixed our faith on you in the Lord, that you are doing and will continue to do what we enjoin.

If any man does not give heed to what I have said in this letter, mark that man; do not associate with him, so as to make him feel ashamed;

But I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have fully believed, and I am thoroughly persuaded that he is able to keep what I have given him until the Day.

Reflect on what I am telling you. The Lord will give you understanding in everything.

But do you hold fast what you have learned and have held to be true. You know those from whom you have learned it,

for they upset whole households and, for filthy lucre's sake, teach what they ought not to teach.

But do you, on your part, speak what becomes sound teaching;

that older women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers or slaves to much wine, but teachers of what is right.

And so, although I might be bold in Christ to dictate to you what is fitting,

Because I am thoroughly persuaded of your obedience, I have written you, knowing full well that you will do by me what I am asking.

For to what angel did God ever say, Thou art my son; this day have I become thy Father? and again, I will be a father to him, and he shall be to me a son?

But some one, somewhere, testified, saying. What is Man, that thou art mindful of him? Or any man, that thou carest for him?

What we do see is Jesus, who was made for a time a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor, because of the suffering of death, in order that through God's grace he might taste death for every man.

So let us get beyond the teaching of the elementary doctrines of Christ, and let us be borne along toward what is mature. Let us not be continually laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works,

I am referring to the oath because men swear by what is greater than themselves, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.

By faith we understand that the world was fashioned by the Word of God, so that what we see was not made out of what is visible.

And what more shall I say? for time would fail me to tell of Gideon, of Barak, of Samson, and of Jeptha; of David and Samuel and the prophets,

It is for discipline that you are enduring these sufferings. God is dealing with you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

make straight path for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.

So that we can say with confidence, The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

equip you in every good deed for the doing of his will, doing in you what is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory unto the ages of the ages! Amen!

for after he has looked carefully at himself, he goes away, and at once forgets what he is like.

My brothers, what good is it if any one says that he has faith, if he has no deeds? Can such faith save him?

and one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, find warmth and food for yourselves," but at the same time you do not give the necessaries of the body, what good would that do them?

when all the time you do not know what will happen on the morrow. For what is your life? You are but a mist, appearing for a brief time, and then vanishing.

They were searching to know to what time, or to what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them kept pointing, when he ever testified beforehand concerning the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow.

For what credit is it if, when you are struck for a fault, you take it patiently? But if when you are doing well and suffer for it, you always take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.