All the brothers and sisters send greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss.

Let anyone who has no love for the Lord be accursed. Our Lord, come!

My love be with all of you in Christ Jesus.

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.”

For this reason, I have sent Timothy to you, who is my dear and faithful son in the Lord. He will remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.

To the rest I say – I, not the Lord – if a brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is happy to live with him, he should not divorce her.

A wife is bound as long as her husband is living. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes (only someone in the Lord).

With regard to our brother Apollos: I strongly encouraged him to visit you with the other brothers, but it was simply not his intention to come now. He will come when he has the opportunity.

For members of Chloe’s household have made it clear to me, my brothers and sisters, that there are quarrels among you.

(I also baptized the household of Stephanus. Otherwise, I do not remember whether I baptized anyone else.)

For no one can lay any foundation other than what is being laid, which is Jesus Christ.

If anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,

If someone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not acquitted because of this. The one who judges me is the Lord.

To the present hour we are hungry and thirsty, poorly clothed, brutally treated, and without a roof over our heads.

(but if she does, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband), and a husband should not divorce his wife.

Each competitor must exercise self-control in everything. They do it to receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one.

Instead I subdue my body and make it my slave, so that after preaching to others I myself will not be disqualified.

These things happened as examples for us, so that we will not crave evil things as they did.

I praise you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions just as I passed them on to you.