For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward. But if I do it unwillingly, I am entrusted with a responsibility.

If I give away everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast, ¹  but do not have love, I receive no benefit.

None of the rulers of this age understood it. If they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

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

For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to advise him? ¹  But we have the mind of Christ.

For even though I am absent physically, ¹  I am present in spirit. And I have already judged the one who did this, just as though I were present. ² 

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

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

And you are proud! ¹  Shouldn’t you have been deeply sorrowful instead and removed the one who did this ²  from among you?

But in my opinion, she will be happier if she remains as she is – and I think that I too have the Spirit of God!

And just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, let us also bear ¹  the image of the man of heaven.

Do you not have houses so that you can eat and drink? Or are you trying to show contempt for the church of God by shaming those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I will not praise you for this!

Then he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters ¹  at one time, most of whom are still alive, ²  though some have fallen asleep. ³ 

Sober up as you should, and stop sinning! For some have no knowledge of God – I say this to your shame!

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.

These things happened to them as examples and were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

For members of Chloe’s household have made it clear to me, my brothers and sisters, ¹  that there are quarrels ²  among you.

With regard to food sacrificed to idols, we know that “we all have knowledge.” ¹  Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

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.