Instead we speak the wisdom of God, hidden in a mystery, that God determined before the ages for our glory.

So, brothers and sisters, ¹  I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, ²  as infants in Christ.

When any of you has a legal dispute with another, does he dare go to court before the unrighteous rather than before the saints?

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

No, I mean that what the pagans sacrifice ¹  is to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons.

Pursue love and be eager for the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.

Brothers and sisters, ¹  do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

the women ¹  should be silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak. ²  Rather, let them be in submission, as in fact the law says.

because we are not looking at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen. For what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.

But as God’s servants, ¹  we have commended ourselves in every way, ²  with great endurance, in persecutions, ³  in difficulties, in distresses,

I say again, let no one think that I am a fool. ¹  But if you do, then at least accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.

For I did not receive it or learn it from any human source; ¹  instead I received it ²  by a revelation of Jesus Christ. ³ 

But the law is not based on faith, ¹  but the one who does the works of the law ²  will live by them. ³ 

Let each one examine ¹  his own work. Then he can take pride ²  in himself and not compare himself with ³  someone else.

Fathers, ¹  do not provoke your children to anger, ²  but raise them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

I want you to know, brothers and sisters, ¹  that my situation has actually turned out to advance the gospel: ² 

The former proclaim Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, because they think they can cause trouble for me in my imprisonment. ¹ 

In him you also were circumcised – not, however, ¹  with a circumcision performed by human hands, but by the removal ²  of the fleshly body, ³  that is, ⁴  through the circumcision done by Christ.

Let no one look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in your speech, conduct, love, faithfulness, ¹  and purity.

Do not address an older man harshly ¹  but appeal to him as a father. Speak to younger men as brothers, ²