Or do you not know that anyone who is united with a prostitute is one body with her? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”

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

What then is my reward? That when I preach the gospel I may offer the gospel free of charge, and so not make full use of my rights in the gospel.

and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they were all drinking from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

So do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.”

For just as woman came from man, so man comes through woman. But all things come from God.

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.

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

And God has placed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, gifts of healing, helps, gifts of leadership, different kinds of tongues.

If then I do not know the meaning of a language, I will be a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker a foreigner to me.

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 passed on to you as of first importance what I also received – that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures,

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

And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare seed – perhaps of wheat or something else.

On the first day of the week, each of you should set aside some income and save it to the extent that God has blessed you, so that a collection will not have to be made when I come.

For I do not want to see you now in passing, since I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord allows.

If you forgive anyone for anything, I also forgive him – for indeed what I have forgiven (if I have forgiven anything) I did so for you in the presence of Christ,

And God is able to make all grace overflow to you so that because you have enough of everything in every way at all times, you will overflow in every good work.

For if I boast somewhat more about our authority that the Lord gave us for building you up and not for tearing you down, I will not be ashamed of doing so.

because some say, “His letters are weighty and forceful, but his physical presence is weak and his speech is of no account.”