For every time you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

If the foot says, “Since I am not a hand, I am not part of the body,” it does not lose its membership in the body because of that.

And if the ear says, “Since I am not an eye, I am not part of the body,” it does not lose its membership in the body because of that.

but our presentable members do not need this. Instead, God has blended together the body, giving greater honor to the lesser member,

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.

And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare seed – perhaps of wheat or something else.

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

Now this is what I am saying, brothers and sisters: Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

For I do not want to see you now in passing, since I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord allows.

For we do not write you anything other than what you can read and also understand. But I hope that you will understand completely

For we are not like so many others, hucksters who peddle the word of God for profit, but we are speaking in Christ before God as persons of sincerity, as persons sent from God.

who made us adequate to be servants of a new covenant not based on the letter but on the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

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.

We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to be proud of us, so that you may be able to answer those who take pride in outward appearance and not in what is in the heart.

I do not say this to condemn you, for I told you before that you are in our hearts so that we die together and live together with you.

So here is my opinion on this matter: It is to your advantage, since you made a good start last year both in your giving and your desire to give,

For I do not say this so there would be relief for others and suffering for you, but as a matter of equality.

because the service of this ministry is not only providing for the needs of the saints but is also overflowing with many thanks to God.

But we will not boast beyond certain limits, but will confine our boasting according to the limits of the work to which God has appointed us, that reaches even as far as you.

For we were not overextending ourselves, as though we did not reach as far as you, because we were the first to reach as far as you with the gospel about Christ.