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“ And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy of the smaller judgments? 3 Have you not known that we will judge messengers? Why not then the things of life? 4 Of the things of life, indeed, then, if you may have judgment, those despised in the Assembly—these you cause to sit; 5 I speak to your shame: so there is not among you one wise man, not even one, who will be able to discern in the midst of his brothers! ”

“ Did God not make foolish the wisdom of this world? 21 For seeing in the wisdom of God the world through the wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the preaching to save those believing. 22 Since also Jews ask a sign, and Greeks seek wisdom, 23 also we preach Christ crucified, to Jews, indeed, a stumbling-block, and to Greeks foolishness, 24 and to those called—both Jews and Greeks—Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God, 25 because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men ”

“ I will sing psalms [in] the spirit, and I will also sing psalms [with] understanding; 16 since, if you may bless in spirit, he who is filling the place of the commoner, how will he say the Amen at your giving of thanks, since he has not known what you say? 17 For you, indeed, give thanks well, but the other is not built up! 18 I give thanks to my God—more than you all with tongues speaking— 19 but I wish to speak five words in an assembly through my understanding, that I also may instruct others, rather than myriads of words in an [unknown] tongue. ”

“ Do not seek to be loosed; have you been loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife. 28 But, and if you may marry, you did not sin; and if the virgin may marry, she did not sin; and such will have tribulation in the flesh: and I spare you. ”

“ Do not be led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of God. 11 And certain of you were these! But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were declared righteous, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God. 12 All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I will not be under authority by any ”

“ That proclaiming good news, without charge I will make the good news of the Christ, not to abuse my authority in the good news; 19 for being free from all men, I made myself servant to all men, that the more I might gain; 20 and to the Jews I became like a Jew, that I might gain Jews ”

“ Chapter 7 1 And concerning the things of which you wrote to me: [it is] good for a man not to touch a woman, 2 and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband; 3 to the wife let the husband render the due benevolence, and in like manner also the wife to the husband; 4 the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband; and in like manner also, the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife. ”

“ Christ, a first-fruit, afterward those who are the Christ's in His coming, 24 then—the end, when He may deliver up the kingdom to God, even the Father, when He may have made all rule useless, and all authority and power. 25 For it is necessary for Him to reign until He may have put all the enemies under His feet. 26 The last enemy is done away with—death. ”

“ Why are they also immersed for the dead? 30 Why do we also stand in peril every hour? 31 I die every day, by the glorying of you that I have in Christ Jesus our Lord. 32 If I fought with wild beasts in Ephesus after the manner of a man, what [is] the advantage to me if the dead do not rise? ”

“ For it says, "The two will be into one flesh." 17 And he who is joined to the LORD is one spirit; 18 flee the whoredom; every sin—whatever a man may commit—is outside the body, and he who is committing whoredom sins against his own body. 19 Have you not known that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, which you have from God? And you are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's. ”

“ Chapter 14 1 Pursue love, and earnestly seek the spiritual things, and rather that you may prophesy, 2 for he who is speaking in an [unknown] tongue—he does not speak to men, but to God, for no one listens, and he speaks secrets in spirit; 3 and he who is prophesying to men speaks edification, and exhortation, and comfort; 4 he who is speaking in an [unknown] tongue, edifies himself, and he who is prophesying, edifies the Assembly ”

“ So also the things of God no one has known, except the Spirit of God. 12 And we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that [is] of God, that we may know the things conferred by God on us, 13 which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things, 14 and the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to know [them] , because they are discerned spiritually ”

“ Chapter 3 1 And I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly—as to babies in Christ; 2 with milk I fed you, and not with meat, for you were not yet able, but not even yet are you now able, 3 for yet you are fleshly, for where [there is] among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are you not fleshly, and walk in the manner of men? 4 For when one may say, "I, indeed, am of Paul," and another, "I—of Apollos," are you not fleshly? 5 Who, then, is Paul, and who Apollos, but servants through whom you believed, and to each as the LORD gave? ”