Now food will not bring us close to God. We are no worse if we do not eat and no better if we do.

For this reason, if food causes my brother or sister to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause one of them to sin.

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.

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

For it is written in the law of Moses, “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” God is not concerned here about oxen, is he?

Don’t you know that those who serve in the temple eat food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar receive a part of the offerings?

For if I preach the gospel, I have no reason for boasting, because I am compelled to do this. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

Do you not know that all the runners in a stadium compete, but only one receives the prize? So run to win.

For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea,

For a man should not have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man.

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

So if the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and unbelievers or uninformed people enter, will they not say that you have lost your minds?

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.

For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

Now if Christ is being preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?

Otherwise, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, then why are they baptized for them?

If from a human point of view I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what did it benefit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

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.