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

And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is futile and your faith is empty.

And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is useless; you are still in your sins.

But each in his own order: Christ, the firstfruits; then when Christ comes, those who belong to him.<n id="1" />

But God gives it a body just as he planned, and to each of the seeds a body of its own.

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

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

Then, when I arrive, I will send those whom you approve with letters of explanation to carry your gift to Jerusalem.<n id="1" />

and perhaps I will stay with you, or even spend the winter, so that you can send me on my journey, wherever I go.

<p class="bodytext">Now if Timothy comes, see that he has nothing to fear among you, for he is doing the Lord&#8217;s work, as I am too.

I was glad about the arrival of Stephanus, Fortunatus, and Achaicus because they have supplied the fellowship with you that I lacked.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

He is the reason you have a relationship with Christ Jesus,<n id="1" /> who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

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.

The unbeliever<n id="1" /> does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

<p class="bodytext">What is Apollos, really? Or what is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, and each of us in the ministry the Lord gave us.<n id="1" />

But I will come to you soon, if the Lord is willing, and I will find out not only the talk of these arrogant people, but also their power.

For even though I am absent physically,<n id="1" /> I am present in spirit. And I have already judged the one who did this, just as though I were present.<n id="2" />

Flee sexual immorality! &#8220;Every sin a person commits is outside of the body&#8221;<n id="1" /> &#8211; but the immoral person sins against his own body.

It is not the wife who has the rights to her own body, but the husband. In the same way, it is not the husband who has the rights to his own body, but the wife.