while our testimony about the Messiah has been confirmed among you.

so that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift [which comes from the Holy Spirit], as you eagerly wait [with confident trust] for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ [when He returns].

For Jews demand signs (attesting miracles), and Greeks pursue [worldly] wisdom and philosophy,

while we proclaim a Christ who has been crucified--to the Jews a stumbling-block, to Gentiles foolishness,

For while I was with you I resolved to know nothing except Jesus the Messiah, and him crucified.

And I did not use persuasive words of [human] wisdom in my message and preaching, but they were [accompanied by] a demonstration of the Holy Spirit and power [from God]. [Note: This "demonstration" could have included the evidence of miraculous spiritual gifts which Paul utilized while there in Corinth. See 14:18].

But the spiritual man discerneth all things, while he himself is discerned by no man.

For you are yet carnal: for while there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are you not carnal, and walk as men?

For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

I planted, Apollos watered, but God [all the while] was causing the growth.

For while my conscience does not trouble me at all, that does not prove that I am innocent. It is the Lord who must examine me.

We are made fools of, for the sake of Christ, while you are men of sense, through being united with him. We are weak, you are strong. You are distinguished, we are despised.

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

while you leave to God's judgement those who are outside? Remove the wicked man from among you.

While a man who is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit?

You must not refuse each other what is due, unless you agree to do so for a while, to devote yourselves to prayer, and then to come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

Was anyone already circumcised when he was called? He should not undo his circumcision. Was anyone called while uncircumcised? He should not get circumcised.

Were you called [while] a slave? Do not let it be a concern to you. But if indeed you are able to become free, rather make use of [it].

For the one who is called in the Lord [while] a slave is the Lord's freedperson. Likewise the one who is called [while] free is a slave of Christ.

While the married man is anxious about worldly matters, desiring to please his wife;

And so his interests are divided. Again, the unmarried woman, whether she is old or young, is anxious about the Master's Cause, striving to be pure both in body and in spirit, while the married woman is anxious about worldly matters, desiring to please her husband.

I now want to reply to the matter of idolatrous sacrifices [which you wrote to me about]. We know that we all possess knowledge. [Note: This may be a statement posed to Paul by the Corinthians, who seemed quite preoccupied with "knowledge"]. Knowledge [only] makes people arrogant, while love builds them up [spiritually].

Still, it is not every one that has this knowledge. Some people, because of their association with idols, continued down to the present time, eat the food as food offered to an idol; and their consciences, while still weak, are dulled.

In this way, by sinning against your Brothers and injuring their consciences, while still weak, you sin against Christ.

Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.

For in the law of Moses it is written, "You must not muzzle an ox [while it] is threshing." It is not about oxen God is concerned, is it?

What, then, is my reward? That, while I preach, I may make the gospel of Christ to be without charge, in order that I may not abuse my authority in the gospel.

Every athlete practises self-restraint all round; but while they do it to win a fading wreath, we do it for an unfading.

For I would have you know this, my brothers, that while our fathers all lived under the cloud, all crossed through the sea,

But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, while a woman's head is her husband, and Christ's head is God.

Every man who prays or prophesies [while] having [something] on [his] head dishonors his head,

But every woman who has her head uncovered while praying or prophesying disgraces her head, for she is one and the same as the woman whose head is shaved.

For a man ought not to have a veil on his head, since he is the image and glory of God; while woman is the glory of man.

for as woman was made from man, so man is now made from woman, while both, like all things, come from God.)

Does not nature herself teach us that, while for a man to wear his hair long is degrading to him,

But while giving you these instructions, there is one thing I cannot praise--your meeting together, with bad rather than good results.

for when you eat, each one hurries to get his own supper first [not waiting for others or the poor]. So one goes hungry while another gets drunk.

What! Do you not have houses in which to eat and drink? Or do you show contempt for the church of God and humiliate those [impoverished believers] who have nothing? What will I say to you? Shall I praise you for this? In this I will not praise you!

For I received from the Lord Himself that [instruction] which I passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which He was betrayed took bread;

Because of this [i.e., their improper partaking of the Supper], many people among you are weak and ill, and a number have fallen asleep [i.e., died]. [Note: While most commentators view this judgment as physical, there is a distinct possibility that it refers to spiritual sickness and death].

Now, while we are being judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so we won't be condemned along with the world.

Ye know that, while Gentiles, ye were being carried away to the voiceless idols, as ye were led.

and those which we deem less honorable we clothe with more abundant honor; and so our ungraceful parts come to have a more abundant grace, while our graceful parts have everything they need.

while our seemly parts have no need. But God so put the body together, as to give special honor to that part which lacked,

You must pursue love, while you are cultivating the spiritual endowments, and especially inspired preaching.

He who, when speaking, uses the gift of 'tongues' builds up his own faith, while he who preaches builds up the faith of the Church.

Brethren! do not become children, in your understandings; but, in baseness, become babes, while, in your understandings, ye become, full-grown.

Therefore, [unknown] tongues are [meant] for a [supernatural] sign, not to believers but to unbelievers [who might be receptive]; while prophecy [foretelling the future, speaking a new message from God to the people] is not for unbelievers but for believers.

While, if all those present use the gift of preaching, and an unbeliever, or a man without the gift, comes in, he is convinced of his sinfulness by them all, he is called to account by them all;

Let two or three prophets speak [as inspired by the Holy Spirit], while the rest pay attention and weigh carefully what is said.

If we have placed our hope in Christ while in this life only, we are to be pitied more than all [other] people.

There are also heavenly bodies [sun, moon and stars] and earthly bodies [humans, animals, and plants], but the glory and beauty of the heavenly is one kind, and the glory of the earthly is another.

And if it is worth while for me also to make the journey, they shall go as my companions.

but it may be that I will stay with you [for a while], or even spend the winter, so that you may send me on my way to wherever I may go afterward.

For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.

If Timothy comes, see to it that he does not have anything to be afraid of while he is with you, for he is doing the Lord's work as I am.