But I will come to you after I have gone through Macedonia – for I will be going through Macedonia –

Now food will not bring us close to God. We are no worse if we do not eat and no better if we do.

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

For if I preach the gospel, I have no reason for boasting, because I am compelled to do this. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

If from a human point of view I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, ¹  what did it benefit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die. 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. ¹  In fact, it would be better for me to die than – no one will deprive me of my reason for boasting! 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 – yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

(I also baptized the household of Stephanus. Otherwise, I do not remember whether I baptized anyone else.)

For whenever someone says, “I am with Paul,” or “I am with Apollos,” are you not merely human? ¹ 

I praise you ¹  because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions just as I passed them on to you.

If ¹  I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unproductive.

Every day I am in danger of death! This is as sure as ¹  my boasting in you, ²  which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God.

Already you are satisfied! Already you are rich! You have become kings without us! I wish you had become kings so that we could reign with you!

“All things are lawful for me” ¹  – but not everything is beneficial. “All things are lawful for me” – but I will not be controlled by anything.

For this reason, if food causes my brother or sister to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause one of them ¹  to sin.

To the weak I became weak in order to gain the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that by all means I may save some.

For now we see in a mirror indirectly, ¹  but then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known.

What should I do? ¹  I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my mind. I will sing praises with my spirit, but I will also sing praises with my mind.

For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.