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For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, "He catches the wise in their craftiness,"

So let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,

For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.

I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another.

For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?

For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.

We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute.

For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power.

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife.

For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing.

you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge?

To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?

"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be dominated by anything.

"Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food"—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two will become one flesh."

for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: "It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman."