For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.

for you are still fleshly. For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking like ordinary people?

Therefore let’s celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Flee sexual immorality. Every other sin that a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such people as yourselves will have trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you.

But if anyone thinks that he is acting dishonorably toward his virgin, if she is past her youth and it ought to be so, let him do what he wishes, he is not sinning; let them marry.

And so, by sinning against the brothers and sisters and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

Therefore, if food causes my brother to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause my brother to sin.

Since there is one loaf, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf.

For a man should not have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.

So you too, since you are eager to possess spiritual gifts, strive to excel for the edification of the church.

What is the outcome then? I will pray with the spirit, but I will pray with the mind also; I will sing with the spirit, but I will sing with the mind also.

For otherwise, if you bless God in the spirit only, how will the one who occupies the place of the outsider know to say the “Amen” at your giving of thanks, since he does not understand what you are saying?

For I handed down to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.

For since by a man death came, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead.

Sober up morally and stop sinning, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the Law;