Guard against self-deception, each of you. If someone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he can become wise.

For the wisdom of this age is foolishness with God. As it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”

It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, the kind of immorality that is not permitted even among the Gentiles, so that someone is cohabiting with his father’s wife.

And you are proud! Shouldn’t you have been deeply sorrowful instead and removed the one who did this from among you?

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.

In no way did I mean the immoral people of this world, or the greedy and swindlers and idolaters, since you would then have to go out of the world.

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.

And I say this, brothers and sisters: The time is short. So then those who have wives should be as those who have none,

I am saying this for your benefit, not to place a limitation on you, but so that without distraction you may give notable and constant service to the Lord.

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.

and those members we consider less honorable we clothe with greater honor, and our unpresentable members are clothed with dignity,

It is written in the law: “By people with strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, yet not even in this way will they listen to me,” says the Lord.

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.

Now when this perishable puts on the imperishable, and this mortal puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will happen, “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”

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

For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died.

Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that could defile the body and the spirit, and thus accomplish holiness out of reverence for God.