But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.

Fool! What you sow will not come to life unless it dies.

However, the spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.

Listen, ¹  I will tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, ²  but we will all be changed –

Let anyone who has no love for the Lord be accursed. Our Lord, come! ¹ 

But if you marry, you have not sinned. And if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face difficult circumstances, ¹  and I am trying to spare you such problems. ² 

Who ever serves in the army at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not consume its milk?

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.

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 

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.

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!

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.

Also, we are found to be false witnesses about God, because we have testified against God that he raised Christ from the dead, when in reality he did not raise him, if indeed the dead are not raised.

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

For I decided to be concerned about nothing ¹  among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

My conversation and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

And we speak about these things, not with words taught us by human wisdom, but with those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people. ¹ 

So, brothers and sisters, ¹  I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, ²  as infants in Christ.

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

Do you not know that you are God’s temple ¹  and that God’s Spirit lives in you?