Now I mean this, that<n id="1" /> each of you is saying, &#8220;I am with Paul,&#8221; or &#8220;I am with Apollos,&#8221; or &#8220;I am with Cephas,&#8221; or &#8220;I am with Christ.&#8221;

If I partake with thankfulness, why am I blamed for the food<n id="1" /> that I give thanks for?

For whenever someone says, &#8220;I am with Paul,&#8221; or &#8220;I am with Apollos,&#8221; are you not merely human?<n id="1" />p>

I planted,<n id="1" /> Apollos watered, but God caused it to grow.

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

<p class="bodytext">So I do not run uncertainly or box like one who hits only air.

Whether then it was I or they, this is the way we preach and this is the way you believed.p>

<p class="bodytext">To the married I give this command &#8211; not I, but the Lord<n id="1" /> &#8211; a wife should not divorce a husband

<p class="bodytext">Now if Timothy comes, see that he has nothing to fear among you, for he is doing the Lord&#8217;s work, as I am too.

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.

For even though I am absent physically,<n id="1" /> I am present in spirit. And I have already judged the one who did this, just as though I were present.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;All things are lawful for me&#8221;<n id="1" /> &#8211; but not everything is beneficial. &#8220;All things are lawful for me&#8221; &#8211; but I will not be controlled by anything.

<p class="bodytext">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 I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

<p class="bodytext">To the rest I say &#8211; I, not the Lord<n id="1" /> &#8211; if a brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is happy to live with him, he should not divorce her.

But if you marry, you have not sinned. And if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face difficult circumstances,<n id="1" /> and I am trying to spare you such problems.<n id="2" />

But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing these things so that something will be done for me.<n id="1" /> In fact, it would be better for me to die than &#8211; no one will deprive me of my reason for boasting!<n id="2" />

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain. In fact, I worked harder than all of them &#8211; yet not I, but the grace of God with me.