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that you receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and that you help her in whatever matter she may have need of you; for she herself has also been a helper of many, and of myself as well.

Greet Rufus, a choice man in the Lord, also his mother and mine.

Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.

but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block, and to Gentiles foolishness,

Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature; a wisdom, however, not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away;

but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to our glory;

For who among people knows the thoughts of a person except the spirit of the person that is in him? So also the thoughts of God no one knows, except the Spirit of God.

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.

According to the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each person must be careful how he builds on it.

For no one can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

If anyone's work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward.

Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

For I think, God has exhibited us, the apostles, last of all as men condemned to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to mankind.

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

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and sexual immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, namely, that someone has his father's wife.

I have decided to turn such a person over to Satan for the destruction of his body, so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough?

Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed.

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.

Does any one of you, when he has a case against his neighbor, dare to go to law before the unrighteous and not before the saints?