Then, when I arrive, I will send those whom you approve with letters of explanation to carry your gift to Jerusalem. ¹ 

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

So then, do not judge anything before the time. Wait until the Lord comes. He will ¹  bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the motives of hearts. Then each will receive recognition ²  from God.

But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who calls himself a Christian ¹  who is sexually immoral, or greedy, or an idolater, or verbally abusive, ²  or a drunkard, or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person.

I wish you all spoke in tongues, but even more that you would prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets so that the church may be strengthened.

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.

I fed you milk, ¹  not solid food, for you were not yet ready. In fact, you are still not ready,

So for me, it is a minor matter that I am judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.

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,

When any of you has a legal dispute with another, does he dare go to court before the unrighteous rather than before the saints?

Were you called as a slave? ¹  Do not worry about it. But if indeed you are able to be free, make the most of the opportunity.

If after all there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords),

You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot take part in the table of the Lord and the table of demons.

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

But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, ¹  and God is the head of Christ.

Now in giving the following instruction I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.

For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread,

It is the same for you. If you do not speak clearly with your tongue, how will anyone know what is being said? For you will be speaking into the air.

but in the church I want to speak five words with my mind to instruct others, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue.

And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare seed ¹  – perhaps of wheat or something else.