For it was declared to me about you, my brothers, by those of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

For the message of the cross is of course, foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is a power of God.

For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will frustrate the understanding of those of understanding.

For since in the wisdom of God the world did not know God through its wisdom, it pleased God through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.

But as it is written, What an eye has not seen, and an ear has not heard, and have not arisen in a heart of a man, are things that God prepared for those who love him.

But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord should will, and I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.

For what is in me to also judge those outside? Do ye not judge those inside?

But God judges those outside. And ye yourselves shall drive out the evil man from you.

And to those who are married, I do not command but the Lord. The wife is not to separate from her husband.

But this I say, brothers, the time is shortened. It is the remaining, so that also those who have wives may be as not having,

and those who weep, as not weeping, and those who rejoice, as not rejoicing, and those who buy, as not possessing,

and those who use this world, as not making full use, for the form of this world passes away.

But take heed lest somehow this privilege of yours becomes a stumbling-block to those who are weak.

My defense to those who examine me is this.

Know ye not that those being employed at the sacred things eat from the temple, and those who serve at the altar are partakers at the altar?

And so the Lord commanded those who proclaim the good-news to live from the good-news.

And to the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might gain Jews, to those under law, as under law, so that I might gain those under law,

to those without law, as without law (not being without law to God, but within law to Christ), so that I might gain men without law.

Know ye not that those who run in an arena, indeed all run, but one receives the prize? So run that ye may seize it.

And every man who strives for mastery exercises self-control in all things. Indeed therefore those men do it so that they might obtain a perishable crown, but we an imperishable.

But these things became our examples, for us not to be men who lust for evil things as those also lusted.

Now all these things happened to those men for examples, and they were written for our admonition, to whom the ends of the ages came.

Look at Israel according to flesh. Those who eat the sacrifices, are they not partakers of the altar?

If any of those unbelievers invites you, and ye want to go, eat everything being set before you, inquiring of nothing because of the conscience.

For have ye no houses to eat and to drink in? Or do ye disparage the church of God, and humiliate those not having? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you.

And those things of the body presumed to be without esteem, we place around these more abundant worth. And our unpresentable parts have more abundant propriety,

Therefore tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving. But prophesying is not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe.

Therefore whether I or those men, so we proclaim, and so ye believed.

Then also those who slept in Christ have perished.

But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruit of those who are asleep.

But each in his own order. Christ the first fruit, then those of Christ at his coming.