With regard then to eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that “an idol in this world is nothing,” and that “there is no God but one.” ¹ 

Do you not know that all the runners in a stadium compete, but only one receives the prize? So run to win.

So let the one who thinks he is standing be careful that he does not fall.

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

And there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. The glory of the heavenly body is one sort and the earthly another.

One ¹  should think about us this way – as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

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 

For the one who was called in the Lord as a slave is the Lord’s freedman. In the same way, the one who was called as a free person is Christ’s slave.

But any woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered disgraces her head, for it is one and the same thing as having a shaved head.

For the one who eats and drinks without careful regard ¹  for the body eats and drinks judgment against himself.

But if someone says to you, “This is from a sacrifice,” do not eat, because of the one who told you and because of conscience ¹  –

With regard to the question about people who have never married, ¹  I have no command from the Lord, but I give my opinion as one shown mercy by the Lord to be trustworthy.

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 

For who among men knows the things of a man except the man’s spirit within him? So too, no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

Nevertheless, 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.

For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not acquitted because of this. The one who judges me is the Lord.

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

Each competitor must exercise self-control in everything. They do it to receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one.

So then, let no one treat him with contempt. But send him on his way in peace so that he may come to me. For I am expecting him with the brothers. ¹ 

To the Jews I became like a Jew to gain the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law) ¹  to gain those under the law.