When I came to you, brothers, I didn't come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," aren't you fleshly?

We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

What then is my reward? That, when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.

When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat.

When he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me."

But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.

When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. Or when one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.

Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the Kingdom to God, even the Father; when he will have abolished all rule and all authority and power.

For, "He put all things in subjection under his feet." But when he says, "All things are put in subjection," it is evident that he is excepted who subjected all things to him.

When all things have been subjected to him, then the Son will also himself be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all.

But when this corruptible will have put on incorruption, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: "Death is swallowed up in victory."

On the first day of the week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come.

When I arrive, I will send whoever you approve with letters to carry your gracious gift to Jerusalem.

But I will come to you when I have passed through Macedonia, for I am passing through Macedonia.

Now concerning Apollos, the brother, I strongly urged him to come to you with the brothers; and it was not at all his desire to come now; but he will come when he has an opportunity.