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The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

but now has been disclosed, and through the Scriptures of the prophets, in accordance with the commandment of the eternal God, has been made known to all the nations, leading to obedience of faith;

To the church of God which is in Corinth, to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, saints by calling, with all who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:

God is faithful, through whom you were called into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Now I mean this, that each one of you is saying, "I am with Paul," or "I am with Apollos," or "I am with Cephas," or "I am with Christ."

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with cleverness of speech, so that the cross of Christ would not be made of no effect.

I also was with you in weakness and fear, and in great trembling,

We also speak these things, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.

For when one person says, "I am with Paul," and another, "I am with Apollos," are you not ordinary people?

Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,

each one's work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each one's work.

You are already filled, you have already become rich, you have become kings without us; and indeed, I wish that you had become kings so that we also might reign with you!

and we labor, working with our own hands; when we are verbally abused, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;

What do you desire? That I come to you with a rod, or with love and a spirit of gentleness?

In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled, and I with you in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

Therefore let's celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people;

I did not at all mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the greedy and swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to leave the world.

But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he is a sexually immoral person, or a greedy person, or an idolater, or is verbally abusive, or habitually drunk, or a swindler—not even to eat with such a person.

So if you have law courts dealing with matters of this life, do you appoint them as judges who are of no account in the church?