It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful.

thieves, the greedy, drunkards, the verbally abusive, and swindlers will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up.

If the foot says, “Since I am not a hand, I am not part of the body,” it does not lose its membership in the body because of that.

And if the ear says, “Since I am not an eye, I am not part of the body,” it does not lose its membership in the body because of that.

So I do not run uncertainly or box like one who hits only air.

Think about the circumstances of your call, brothers and sisters. Not many were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were born to a privileged position.

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

I say this as a concession, not as a command.

Do we not have the right to financial support?

But if we examined ourselves, we would not be judged.

For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast affects the whole batch of dough?

“Everything is lawful,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is lawful,” but not everything builds others up.

Now in giving the following instruction I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.

But just as it is written, “Things that no eye has seen, or ear heard, or mind imagined, are the things God has prepared for those who love him.”

The eye cannot say to the hand, “I do not need you,” nor in turn can the head say to the foot, “I do not need you.”

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel – and not with clever speech, so that the cross of Christ would not become useless.

The unbeliever does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, passive homosexual partners, practicing homosexuals,