For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

God chose what is low and despised in the world, what is regarded as nothing, to set aside what is regarded as something,

When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come with superior eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed the testimony of God.

None of the rulers of this age understood it. If they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master-builder I laid a foundation, but someone else builds on it. And each one must be careful how he builds.

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

For though you may have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, because I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

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.

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.

I say this to your shame! Is there no one among you wise enough to settle disputes between fellow Christians?

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin a person commits is outside of the body” – but the immoral person sins against his own body.

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

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

Or is he not surely speaking for our benefit? It was written for us, because the one plowing and threshing ought to work in hope of enjoying the harvest.

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?

I do not mean yours but the other person’s. For why is my freedom being judged by another’s conscience?

For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread,

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

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