But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who calls himself a Christian who is sexually immoral, or greedy, or an idolater, or verbally abusive, or a drunkard, or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person.

so that your faith would not be based on human wisdom but on the power of God.

Did the word of God begin with you, or did it come to you alone?

Now, brothers and sisters, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I help you unless I speak to you with a revelation or with knowledge or prophecy or teaching?

The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you.

Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Instead, keeping God’s commandments is what counts.

If the whole body were an eye, what part would do the hearing? If the whole were an ear, what part would exercise the sense of smell?

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

And there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. The glory of the heavenly body is one sort and the earthly another.

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

and he is divided. An unmarried woman or a virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord, to be holy both in body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the things of the world, how to please her husband.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain. In fact, I worked harder than all of them – yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

In no way did I mean the immoral people of this world, or the greedy and swindlers and idolaters, since you would then have to go out of the world.

It is not the wife who has the rights to her own body, but the husband. In the same way, it is not the husband who has the rights to his own body, but the wife.

With regard to food sacrificed to idols, we know that “we all have knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

So if the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and unbelievers or uninformed people enter, will they not say that you have lost your minds?

For the kingdom of God is demonstrated not in idle talk but with power.

What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod of discipline or with love and a spirit of gentleness?

But if they do not have self-control, let them get married. For it is better to marry than to burn with sexual desire.

Let each one remain in that situation in life in which he was called.