Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption—

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each one’s praise will come from God.

For who makes you differ from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? Now if you did indeed receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you.

But those who are outside God judges. Therefore “put away from yourselves the evil person.”

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

For I wish that all men were even as I myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that.

Keep Your Marriage Vows

Now to the married I command, yet not I but the Lord: A wife is not to depart from her husband.

To the Unmarried and Widows

Now concerning virgins: I have no commandment from the Lord; yet I give judgment as one whom the Lord in His mercy has made trustworthy.

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

But this I say, brethren, the time is short, so that from now on even those who have wives should be as though they had none,

Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working?

Even so the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should live from the gospel.

Serving All Men

For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win the more;

Flee from Idolatry

Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

For man is not from woman, but woman from man.

For as woman came from man, even so man also comes through woman; but all things are from God.

Institution of the Lord’s Supper

For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread;

Or did the word of God come originally from you? Or was it you only that it reached?

The Risen Christ, Our Hope

Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

The Last Enemy Destroyed

But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory.

The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven.