So then, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of vice and evil, but with the bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth. ¹ 

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin a person commits is outside of the body” ¹  – but the immoral person sins against his own body.

And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is happy to live with her, she should not divorce him.

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 all drank the same spiritual drink. For they were all drinking from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

So do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.” ¹ 

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

“Everything is lawful,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is lawful,” ¹  but not everything builds others up. ² 

If an unbeliever invites you to dinner and you want to go, eat whatever is served without asking questions of conscience.

I do not mean yours but the other person’s. For why is my freedom being judged by another’s conscience?

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

For in the first place, when you come together as a church I hear there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.

and after he had given thanks he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”

If the whole body were an eye, what part would do the hearing? If the whole were an ear, what part would exercise the sense of smell?

and those members we consider less honorable we clothe with greater honor, and our unpresentable members are clothed with dignity, ¹ 

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.

and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you – unless you believed in vain.

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

All flesh is not the same: People have one flesh, animals have another, birds and fish another. ¹ 

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel – and not with clever speech, so that the cross of Christ would not become useless. ¹