If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

I do all these things because of the gospel, so that I can be a participant in it.

To the unmarried and widows I say that it is best for them to remain as I am.

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.

I, Paul, send this greeting with my own hand.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused it to grow.

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

To the Jews I became like a Jew to gain the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law) to gain those under the law.

Every day I am in danger of death! This is as sure as my boasting in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

To the weak I became weak in order to gain the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that by all means I may save some.

For since I am free from all I can make myself a slave to all, in order to gain even more people.

Then, when I arrive, I will send those whom you approve with letters of explanation to carry your gift to Jerusalem.

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

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?

So for me, it is a minor matter that I am judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.

If I am not an apostle to others, at least I am to you, for you are the confirming sign of my apostleship in the Lord.

For now we see in a mirror indirectly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known.

No, I mean that what the pagans sacrifice is to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons.

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

For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread,