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To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be his holy people, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ—their Lord and ours:
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Thanksgiving
I always thank my God for you because of his grace given you in Christ Jesus.
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For in him you have been enriched in every way—with all kinds of speech and with all knowledge—
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A Church Divided Over Leaders
I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in mind and thought.
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these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
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What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us.
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The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments,
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What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his task.
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By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as a wise builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should build with care.
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So then, no more boasting about human leaders! All things are yours,
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whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours,
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Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful.
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Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! You have begun to reign—and that without us! How I wish that you really had begun to reign so that we also might reign with you!
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not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.
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Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.
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I wish that all of you were as I am. But each of you has your own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that.
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To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband.
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But if the unbeliever leaves, let it be so. The brother or the sister is not bound in such circumstances; God has called us to live in peace.
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Concerning Change of Status
Nevertheless, each person should live as a believer in whatever situation the Lord has assigned to them, just as God has called them. This is the rule I lay down in all the churches.
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Concerning the Unmarried
Now about virgins: I have no command from the Lord, but I give a judgment as one who by the Lord’s mercy is trustworthy.
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Concerning Food Sacrificed to Idols
Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that “We all possess knowledge.” But knowledge puffs up while love builds up.
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So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that “An idol is nothing at all in the world” and that “There is no God but one.”
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yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.
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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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If others have this right of support from you, shouldn’t we have it all the more? But we did not use this right. On the contrary, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ.
