Two or three prophets should speak and the others should evaluate what is said.

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

For no one can lay any foundation other than what is being laid, which is Jesus Christ.

Do not seek your own good, but the good of the other person.

If anyone intends to quarrel about this, we have no other practice, nor do the churches of God.

If I am not an apostle to others, at least I am to you, for you are the confirming sign ¹  of my apostleship in the Lord.

Instead I subdue my body and make it my slave, so that after preaching to others I myself will not be disqualified.

but in the church I want to speak five words with my mind to instruct others, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue.

Do we not have the right to the company of a believing wife, like the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?

I do not mean yours but the other person’s. For why is my freedom being judged by another’s conscience?

“Everything is lawful,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is lawful,” ¹  but not everything builds others up. ² 

If others receive this right from you, are we not more deserving? But we have not made use of this right. Instead we endure everything so that we may not be a hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

If someone speaks in a tongue, it should be two, or at the most three, one after the other, and someone must interpret.

If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so that when you assemble it does not lead to judgment. I will give directions about other matters when I come.

With regard to our brother Apollos: I strongly encouraged him to visit you with the other brothers, ¹  but it was simply not his intention to come now. ²  He will come when he has the opportunity.

Do not deprive each other, except by mutual agreement for a specified time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. ¹  Then resume your relationship, ²  so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

I have applied these things to myself and Apollos because of you, brothers and sisters, ¹  so that through us you may learn “not to go beyond what is written,” so that none of you will be puffed up in favor of the one against the other.

No trial has overtaken you that is not faced by others. ¹  And God is faithful: He ²  will not let you be tried beyond what you are able to bear, ³  but with the trial will also provide a way out so that you may be able to endure it.

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

But the one who prophesies speaks to people for their strengthening, ¹  encouragement, and consolation.