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In this way, you do not have faith in Christ because of the wisdom of men. You have faith in Christ because of the power of God.

But the person who is not a Christian does not understand these words from the Holy Spirit. He thinks they are foolish. He cannot understand them because he does not have the Holy Spirit to help him understand.

My teaching was as if I were giving you milk to drink. I could not give you meat because you were not ready for it. Even yet you are not able to have anything but milk.

Who is Apollos? Who is Paul? We are only servants owned by God. He gave us gifts to preach His Word. And because of that, you put your trust in Christ.

We are thought of as fools because of Christ. But you are thought of as wise Christians! We are weak. You are strong. People respect you. They have no respect for us.

But because of being tempted to sex sins, each man should get married and have his own wife. Each woman should get married and have her own husband.

The husband who is not a Christian is set apart from the sin of the world because of his Christian wife. The wife who is not a Christian is set apart from the sin of the world because of her Christian husband. In this way, the lives of the children are not unclean because of sin, they are clean.

I have no word from the Lord about women or men who have never been married. I will tell you what I think. You can trust me because the Lord has given me His loving-kindness.

I think, because of the troubles that are coming, it is a good thing for a person not to get married.

Am I not a missionary? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not Christians because of the work I have done for the Lord?

Other people may not think of me as a missionary, but you do. It proves I am a missionary because you are Christians now.

Did not God speak about this because of us. For sure, this was written for us. The man who gets the fields ready and the man who gathers in the grain should expect some of the grain.

I cannot be proud because I preach the Good News. I have been told to do it. It would be bad for me if I do not preach the Good News.

If I do this because I want to, I will get my reward. If I do not want to do it, I am still expected to do it.

I keep working over my body. I make it obey me. I do this because I am afraid that after I have preached the Good News to others, I myself might be put aside.

I think you have done well because you always remember me and have followed the things I taught you.

If the foot should say, "I am not a part of the body because I am not a hand," that would not stop it from being a part of the body.

If the ear should say, "I am not a part of the body because I am not an eye," that would not stop it from being a part of the body.

For I am the least important of all the missionaries. I should not be called a missionary because I made it so hard for God's church.

I am different now. It is all because of what God did for me by His loving-favor. His loving-favor was not wasted. I worked harder than all the other missionaries. But it was not I who worked. It was God's loving-favor working through me.