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For they were pleased to do so, and they are indebted to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, they are indebted to do them a service also in material things.

For such people are slaves, not of our Lord Christ but of their own appetites; and by their smooth and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

But a natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

and again, "THE LORD KNOWS THE THOUGHTS of the wise, THAT THEY ARE useless."

But I say to the unmarried and to widows that it is good for them if they remain even as I.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband; for otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

and those who weep, as though they did not weep; and those who rejoice, as though they did not rejoice; and those who buy, as though they did not possess;

and those who use the world, as though they did not make full use of it; for the present form of this world is passing away.

For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our fathers were all under the cloud and they all passed through the sea;

and they all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

and they all ate the same spiritual food,

and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ.

Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

No, but I say that things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not want you to become partners with demons.

For just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ.

In the Law it is written: "BY MEN OF STRANGE TONGUES AND BY THE LIPS OF STRANGERS I WILL SPEAK TO THIS PEOPLE, AND EVEN SO THEY WILL NOT LISTEN TO ME," says the Lord.

Therefore if the whole church gathers together and all the people speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are insane?

Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.

But someone will say, "How are the dead raised? And with what kind of body do they come?"

and if it is appropriate for me to go also, they will go with me.