1 Corinthians 1:17-18
1:17 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel – and not with clever speech, so that the cross of Christ would not become useless.
The Message of the Cross
1:18 For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
1 Corinthians 1:24
1:24 But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.
1 Corinthians 1:27
1:27 But God chose what the world thinks foolish to shame the wise, and God chose what the world thinks weak to shame the strong.
1 Corinthians 2:4
2:4 My conversation and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
1 Corinthians 2:6
Wisdom from God
2:6 Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing.
1 Corinthians 2:13
2:13 And we speak about these things, not with words taught us by human wisdom, but with those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people.
1 Corinthians 2:16--3:1
2:16 For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to advise him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Immaturity and Self-deception
3:1 So, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.
1 Corinthians 3:8
3:8 The one who plants and the one who waters work as one, but each will receive his reward according to his work.
1 Corinthians 3:15
3:15 If someone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as through fire.
1 Corinthians 4:4
4:4 For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not acquitted because of this. The one who judges me is the Lord.
1 Corinthians 6:18
6:18 Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin a person commits is outside of the body” – but the immoral person sins against his own body.
1 Corinthians 7:7
7:7 I wish that everyone was as I am. But each has his own gift from God, one this way, another that.
1 Corinthians 7:9
7:9 But if they do not have self-control, let them get married. For it is better to marry than to burn with sexual desire.
1 Corinthians 7:11
7:11 (but if she does, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband), and a husband should not divorce his wife.
1 Corinthians 7:14-15
7:14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified because of the wife, and the unbelieving wife because of her husband. Otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.
7:15 But if the unbeliever wants a divorce, let it take place. In these circumstances the brother or sister is not bound. God has called you in peace.
1 Corinthians 7:21
7:21 Were you called as a slave? Do not worry about it. But if indeed you are able to be free, make the most of the opportunity.
1 Corinthians 7:40--8:1
7:40 But in my opinion, she will be happier if she remains as she is – and I think that I too have the Spirit of God!
Food Sacrificed to Idols
8:1 With regard to food sacrificed to idols, we know that “we all have knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
1 Corinthians 8:4
8:4 With regard then to eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that “an idol in this world is nothing,” and that “there is no God but one.”
1 Corinthians 9:24-25
9:24 Do you not know that all the runners in a stadium compete, but only one receives the prize? So run to win.
9:25 Each competitor must exercise self-control in everything. They do it to receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one.
1 Corinthians 10:28-29
10:28 But if someone says to you, “This is from a sacrifice,” do not eat, because of the one who told you and because of conscience –
10:29 I do not mean yours but the other person’s. For why is my freedom being judged by another’s conscience?
1 Corinthians 11:5
11:5 But any woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered disgraces her head, for it is one and the same thing as having a shaved head.
1 Corinthians 11:7
11:7 For a man should not have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man.
1 Corinthians 11:15
11:15 but if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is given to her for a covering.
1 Corinthians 11:17
The Lord’s Supper
11:17 Now in giving the following instruction I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.
1 Corinthians 11:32
11:32 But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned with the world.
1 Corinthians 12:24
12:24 but our presentable members do not need this. Instead, God has blended together the body, giving greater honor to the lesser member,
1 Corinthians 12:31--13:1
12:31 But you should be eager for the greater gifts. And now I will show you a way that is beyond comparison.
The Way of Love
13:1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
1 Corinthians 13:3
13:3 If I give away everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast, but do not have love, I receive no benefit.
1 Corinthians 14:2
14:2 For the one speaking in a tongue does not speak to people but to God, for no one understands; he is speaking mysteries by the Spirit.
1 Corinthians 14:20
14:20 Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
1 Corinthians 14:24
14:24 But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or uninformed person enters, he will be convicted by all, he will be called to account by all.
1 Corinthians 14:28
14:28 But if there is no interpreter, he should be silent in the church. Let him speak to himself and to God.
1 Corinthians 15:37-38
15:37 And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare seed – perhaps of wheat or something else.
15:38 But God gives it a body just as he planned, and to each of the seeds a body of its own.