Or is he not surely speaking for our benefit? It was written for us, because the one plowing and threshing ought to work in hope of enjoying the harvest.

I have applied these things to myself and Apollos because of you, brothers and sisters, so that through us you may learn “not to go beyond what is written,” so that none of you will be puffed up in favor of the one against the other.

We do hard work, toiling with our own hands. When we are verbally abused, we respond with a blessing, when persecuted, we endure,

These things happened to them as examples and were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

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

Do we not have the right to the company of a believing wife, like the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?

But if the unbeliever wants a divorce, let it take place. In these circumstances the brother or sister is not bound. God has called you in peace.

Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch of dough – you are, in fact, without yeast. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

Listen, I will tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed –

For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.

also to submit to people like this, and to everyone who cooperates in the work and labors hard.

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

Why too are we in danger every hour?

Everything you do should be done in love.

Instead we speak the wisdom of God, hidden in a mystery, that God determined before the ages for our glory.

The one who is spiritual discerns all things, yet he himself is understood by no one.

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

If we sowed spiritual blessings among you, is it too much to reap material things from you?

With regard to spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed.

And there are different results, but the same God who produces all of them in everyone.