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

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

it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.

For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, ¹  and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength. ² 

God has revealed these to us by the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

The unbeliever 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.

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. ¹ 

The one who plants and the one who waters work as one, ¹  but each will receive his reward according to his work.

For who concedes you any superiority? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast as though you did not?

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.

It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, the kind of immorality that is not permitted even among the Gentiles, so that someone is cohabiting with ¹  his father’s wife.

When you gather together in the name of our Lord Jesus, ¹  and I am with you in spirit, ²  along with the power of our Lord Jesus,

Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch of dough – you are, in fact, without yeast. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

In no way did I mean the immoral people of this world, or the greedy and swindlers and idolaters, since you would then have to go out of the world.

Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you not competent to settle trivial suits?

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, ¹  whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

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.

I wish that everyone was as I am. But each has his own gift from God, one this way, another that.

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.