If someone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, which is what you are.

But I will come to you soon, if the Lord is willing, and I will find out not only the talk of these arrogant people, but also their power.

For even though I am absent physically, I am present in spirit. And I have already judged the one who did this, just as though I were present.

turn this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you not competent to settle trivial suits?

And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is happy to live with her, she should not divorce him.

For how do you know, wife, whether you will bring your husband to salvation? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will bring your wife to salvation?

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

But if someone says to you, “This is from a sacrifice,” do not eat, because of the one who told you and because of conscience –

For this reason, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

I had no relief in my spirit, because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said good-bye to them and set out for Macedonia.

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.

But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that the extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us.

Therefore, because we know the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade people, but we are well known to God, and I hope we are well known to your consciences too.

And we are sending with them our brother whom we have tested many times and found eager in many matters, but who now is much more eager than ever because of the great confidence he has in you.

And I know that this man (whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, God knows)

I urged Titus to visit you and I sent our brother along with him. Titus did not take advantage of you, did he? Did we not conduct ourselves in the same spirit? Did we not behave in the same way?

Am I now trying to gain the approval of people, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ!

to reveal his Son in me so that I could preach him among the Gentiles, I did not go to ask advice from any human being,

But when the appropriate time had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,