For see what this very thing, this sadness ¹  as God intended, has produced in you: what eagerness, what defense of yourselves, ²  what indignation, ³  what alarm, what longing, what deep concern, ⁴  what punishment! ⁵  In everything you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.

However, the spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.

We are experiencing trouble on every side, ¹  but are not crushed; we are perplexed, ²  but not driven to despair;

we are persecuted, but not abandoned; ¹  we are knocked down, ²  but not destroyed,

Give a shepherd’s care to ¹  God’s flock among you, exercising oversight ²  not merely as a duty ³  but willingly under God’s direction, ⁴  not for shameful profit but eagerly.

and to put on sandals but not to wear two tunics. ¹ 

I have not come ¹  to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” ² 

Instead new wine must be poured into new wineskins. ¹ 

Instead, does a Christian sue a Christian, ¹  and do this before unbelievers?

But you yourselves wrong and cheat, and you do this to your brothers and sisters! ¹ 

not a drunkard, not violent, but gentle, not contentious, free from the love of money.

Instead he must be hospitable, devoted to what is good, sensible, upright, devout, and self-controlled.

But in those sacrifices ¹  there is a reminder of sins year after year.

but by precious blood like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb, namely Christ.

“Everything is lawful,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is lawful,” ¹  but not everything builds others up. ² 

And even if I am unskilled ¹  in speaking, yet I am certainly not so in knowledge. Indeed, we have made this plain to you in everything in every way.

Some of you once lived this way. ¹  But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ ²  and by the Spirit of our God.

He said, “Abba, ¹  Father, all things are possible for you. Take this cup ²  away from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”

but someone is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart ¹  by the Spirit ²  and not by the written code. ³  This person’s ⁴  praise is not from people but from God.

“All things are lawful for me” ¹  – but not everything is beneficial. “All things are lawful for me” – but I will not be controlled by anything.