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the work of each builder will become visible, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each has done.

For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, as though sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to mortals.

But because of cases of sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

Do not deprive one another except perhaps by agreement for a set time, to devote yourselves to prayer, and then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.

If I partake with thankfulness, why should I be denounced because of that for which I give thanks?

I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions just as I handed them on to you.

For this reason a woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.

Now in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse.

If the foot would say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body.

And if the ear would say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body.

For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified of God that he raised Christ—whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised.

Therefore, my beloved, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord, because you know that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus, because they have made up for your absence;

I do not mean to imply that we lord it over your faith; rather, we are workers with you for your joy, because you stand firm in the faith.

but my mind could not rest because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said farewell to them and went on to Macedonia.

Now if the ministry of death, chiseled in letters on stone tablets, came in glory so that the people of Israel could not gaze at Moses' face because of the glory of his face, a glory now set aside,

Indeed, what once had glory has lost its glory because of the greater glory;

because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will bring us with you into his presence.