let their eyes be darkened so that they may not see, and make their backs bend continually.”

Owe no one anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to arouse its desires.

so that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And again, “Praise the Lord all you Gentiles, and let all the peoples praise him.”

Therefore after I have completed this and have safely delivered this bounty to them, I will set out for Spain by way of you,

Greet Herodion, my compatriot. Greet those in the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord.

(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,

But God will judge those outside. Remove the evil person from among you.

When any of you has a legal dispute with another, does he dare go to court before the unrighteous rather than before the saints?

Now God indeed raised the Lord and he will raise us by his power.

But because of immoralities, each man should have relations with his own wife and each woman with her own husband.

those who use the world as though they were not using it to the full. For the present shape of this world is passing away.

And let us not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by snakes.

Look at the people of Israel. Are not those who eat the sacrifices partners in the altar?

who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a down payment.

Now I appeal to God as my witness, that to spare you I did not come again to Corinth.

We do so because we know that the one who raised up Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus and will bring us with you into his presence.