So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living person”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

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.

From Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Sosthenes, our brother,

I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius,

For Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks ask for wisdom,

but we preach about a crucified Christ, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles.

And I was with you in weakness and in fear and with much trembling.

We are coworkers belonging to God. You are God’s field, God’s building.

We do hard work, toiling with our own hands. When we are verbally abused, we respond with a blessing, when persecuted, we endure,

when people lie about us, we answer in a friendly manner. We are the world’s dirt and scum, even now.

I am not writing these things to shame you, but to correct you as my dear children.

Do you not know that we will judge angels? Why not ordinary matters!

But the one united with the Lord is one spirit with him.

Now with regard to the issues you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”

But if they do not have self-control, let them get married. For it is better to marry than to burn with sexual desire.

Let each one remain in that situation in life in which he was called.

In whatever situation someone was called, brothers and sisters, let him remain in it with God.

But be careful that this liberty of yours does not become a hindrance to the weak.

Or do only Barnabas and I lack the right not to work?

and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,