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Then comes the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, after he has destroyed every ruler and every authority and power.

For "God has put all things in subjection under his feet." But when it says, "All things are put in subjection," it is plain that this does not include the one who put all things in subjection under him.

When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to the one who put all things in subjection under him, so that God may be all in all.

Come to a sober and right mind, and sin no more; for some people have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.

What I am saying, brothers and sisters, is this: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God that is in Corinth, including all the saints throughout Achaia:

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all consolation,

who consoles us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to console those who are in any affliction with the consolation with which we ourselves are consoled by God.

Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death so that we would rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.

Indeed, this is our boast, the testimony of our conscience: we have behaved in the world with frankness and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God—and all the more toward you.

As surely as God is faithful, our word to you has not been "Yes and No."

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you, Silvanus and Timothy and I, was not "Yes and No"; but in him it is always "Yes."

For in him every one of God's promises is a "Yes." For this reason it is through him that we say the "Amen," to the glory of God.

But it is God who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us,

But I call on God as witness against me: it was to spare you that I did not come again to Corinth.

But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads in every place the fragrance that comes from knowing him.

For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing;