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Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
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For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
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The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.
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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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their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work.
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If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.
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God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked person from among you.”
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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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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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Each person should remain in the situation they were in when God called them.
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For the one who was a slave when called to faith in the Lord is the Lord’s freed person; similarly, the one who was free when called is Christ’s slave.
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Brothers and sisters, each person, as responsible to God, should remain in the situation they were in when God called them.
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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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I am referring to the other person’s conscience, not yours. For why is my freedom being judged by another’s conscience?
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for when you are eating, some of you go ahead with your own private suppers. As a result, one person remains hungry and another gets drunk.
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Personal Requests
After I go through Macedonia, I will come to you—for I will be going through Macedonia.
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If anyone does not love the Lord, let that person be cursed! Come, Lord!
