<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>

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

<t /><p class="bodytext">Nevertheless,<n id="1" /> as the Lord has assigned to each one, as God has called each person, so must he live. I give this sort of direction in all the churches.

<t /><p class="bodytext">One<n id="1" /> should think about us this way &#8211; as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

<p class="bodytext">It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable.<n id="1" />

If someone&#8217;s work is burned up, he will suffer loss.<n id="1" /> He himself will be saved, but only as through fire.p>

Because of the impending crisis I think it best for you to remain as you are.

If you sin against your brothers or sisters<n id="1" /> in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

In the same way the Lord commanded those who proclaim the gospel to receive their living by the gospel.

A person should examine himself first,<n id="1" /> and in this way<n id="2" /> let him eat the bread and drink of the cup.

It is the same with you. Since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit,<n id="1" /> seek to abound in order to strengthen the church.p>

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" />

I say this to your shame! Is there no one among you wise enough to settle disputes between fellow Christians?<n id="1" />

But in my opinion, she will be happier if she remains as she is &#8211; and I think that I too have the Spirit of God!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 just as woman came from man, so man comes through woman. But all things come from God.

It is the same for you. If you do not speak clearly with your tongue, how will anyone know what is being said? For you will be speaking into the air.

It is written in the law: &#8220;<i><b>By people with strange tongues and by the lips of strangersb> <b>I will speak to this peopleb>, <b>yet not even in this way will they listen to meb>i>,&#8221;<n id="1" /> says the Lord.