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to be a minister of Christ Jesus to those who are not Jews. I served God by teaching his Good News, so that the non-Jewish people could be an offering that God would accept—an offering made holy by the Holy Spirit.

Jesus will keep you strong until the end so that there will be no wrong in you on the day our Lord Jesus Christ comes again.

so that now no one can say you were baptized in my name.

Christ did not send me to baptize people but to preach the Good News. And he sent me to preach the Good News without using words of human wisdom so that the cross of Christ would not lose its power.

God did this so that no one can brag in his presence.

This was so that your faith would be in God's power and not in human wisdom.

Now we did not receive the spirit of the world, but we received the Spirit that is from God so that we can know all that God has given us.

Do not fool yourselves. If you think you are wise in this world, you should become a fool so that you can become truly wise,

And you are proud! You should have been filled with sadness so that the man who did this should be put out of your group.

Take out all the old yeast so that you will be a new batch of dough without yeast, which you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

So if the food I eat causes them to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again so that I will not cause any of them to sin.

If others have the right to get something from you, surely we have this right, too. But we do not use it. No, we put up with everything ourselves so that we will not keep anyone from believing the Good News of Christ.

I treat my body hard and make it my slave so that I myself will not be disqualified after I have preached to others.

The only temptation that has come to you is that which everyone has. But you can trust God, who will not permit you to be tempted more than you can stand. But when you are tempted, he will also give you a way to escape so that you will be able to stand it.

So that is why a woman should have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.

(It is necessary to have differences among you so that it may be clear which of you really have God's approval.)

But when the Lord judges us, he disciplines us so that we will not be destroyed along with the world.

Anyone who is too hungry should eat at home so that in meeting together you will not bring God's judgment on yourselves. I will tell you what to do about the other things when I come.

I wish all of you had the gift of speaking in different kinds of languages, but more, I wish you would prophesy. Those who prophesy are greater than those who can only speak in different languages—unless someone is there who can explain what is said so that the whole church can be helped.

So none of you should treat Timothy as unimportant, but help him on his trip in peace so that he can come back to me. I am expecting him to come with the brothers.