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However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived”— the things God has prepared for those who love him—
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I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow.
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For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like those condemned to die in the arena. We have been made a spectacle to the whole universe, to angels as well as to human beings.
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Are you pledged to a woman? Do not seek to be released. Are you free from such a commitment? Do not look for a wife.
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For if someone with a weak conscience sees you, with all your knowledge, eating in an idol’s temple, won’t that person be emboldened to eat what is sacrificed to idols?
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Paul’s Rights as an Apostle
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not the result of my work in the Lord?
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If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap a material harvest from you?
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No one should seek their own good, but the good of others.
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even as I try to please everyone in every way. For I am not seeking my own good but the good of many, so that they may be saved.
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On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,
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It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
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For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
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When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else.
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But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body.
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If it seems advisable for me to go also, they will accompany me.
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For I do not want to see you now and make only a passing visit; I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits.
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When Timothy comes, see to it that he has nothing to fear while he is with you, for he is carrying on the work of the Lord, just as I am.