For the wisdom of this age is foolishness with God. As it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”

I say this to your shame! Is there no one among you wise enough to settle disputes between fellow Christians?

And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is happy to live with her, she should not divorce him.

I am saying this for your benefit, not to place a limitation on you, but so that without distraction you may give notable and constant service to the Lord.

and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they were all drinking from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

So do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.”

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?

the women should be silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak. Rather, let them be in submission, as in fact the law says.

Otherwise, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, then why are they baptized for them?

All flesh is not the same: People have one flesh, animals have another, birds and fish another.

The churches in the province of Asia send greetings to you. Aquila and Prisca greet you warmly in the Lord, with the church that meets in their house.

I had no relief in my spirit, because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said good-bye to them and set out for Macedonia.

But thanks be to God who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and who makes known through us the fragrance that consists of the knowledge of him in every place.

and not like Moses who used to put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from staring at the result of the glory that was made ineffective.

And we all, with unveiled faces reflecting the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another, which is from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

But since we have the same spirit of faith as that shown in what has been written, “I believed; therefore I spoke,” we also believe, therefore we also speak.

And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised.

Therefore “come out from their midst, and be separate,” says the Lord, “and touch no unclean thing, and I will welcome you,

Therefore we have been encouraged. And in addition to our own encouragement, we rejoiced even more at the joy of Titus, because all of you have refreshed his spirit.

And we are sending with them our brother whom we have tested many times and found eager in many matters, but who now is much more eager than ever because of the great confidence he has in you.