but we preach about a crucified Christ,<n id="1" /> a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles.

The one who is spiritual discerns<n id="1" /> all things, yet he himself is understood<n id="2" /> by no one.

For you are certainly giving thanks well, but the other person is not strengthened.

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>

So if you have ordinary lawsuits, do you appoint as judges those who have no standing in the church?<n id="1" />

Each competitor must exercise self-control in everything. They do it to receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one.p>

Does not nature<n id="1" /> itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace for him,

For in the first place, when you come together as a church I hear there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.

For when it is time to eat, everyone proceeds with his own supper. One is hungry and another becomes drunk.

For one person is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, and another the message of knowledge according to the same Spirit,

And there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. The glory of the heavenly body is one sort and the earthly another.

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;

<t /><p class="bodytext">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.

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" />

The fact that you have lawsuits among yourselves demonstrates that you have already been defeated. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?

I wish that everyone was as I am. But each has his own gift from God, one this way, another that.p>

<p class="bodytext">Do you not know that all the runners in a stadium compete, but only one receives the prize? So run to win.

For a man should not have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man.

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.

All flesh is not the same: People have one flesh, animals have another, birds and fish another.<n id="1" />