If I am not an apostle to others, at least I am to you, for you are the confirming sign ¹  of my apostleship in the Lord.

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.

I do not mean yours but the other person’s. For why is my freedom being judged by another’s conscience?

just as I also try to please everyone in all things. I do not seek my own benefit, but the benefit ¹  of many, so that they may be saved.

but our presentable members do not need this. Instead, God has blended together the body, giving greater honor to the lesser member,

but in the church I want to speak five words with my mind to instruct others, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue.

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.

And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare seed ¹  – perhaps of wheat or something else.

All flesh is not the same: People have one flesh, animals have another, birds and fish another. ¹ 

For we do not write you anything other than what ¹  you can read and also understand. But I hope that you will understand completely ² 

I had no relief in my spirit, ¹  because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said good-bye to them ²  and set out ³  for Macedonia.

who made us adequate ¹  to be servants of a new covenant ²  not based on the letter but on the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

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.

We are not trying to commend ¹  ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to be proud of us, ²  so that you may be able to answer those who take pride ³  in outward appearance ⁴  and not in what is in the heart.

And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised. ¹ 

So then from now on we acknowledge ¹  no one from an outward human point of view. ²  Even though we have known Christ from such a human point of view, ³  now we do not know him in that way any longer.

For even when we came into Macedonia, our body ¹  had no rest at all, but we were troubled in every way – struggles from the outside, fears from within.

Now I rejoice, not because you were made sad, ¹  but because you were made sad to the point of repentance. For you were made sad as God intended, ²  so that you were not harmed ³  in any way by us.

So here is my opinion on this matter: It is to your advantage, since you ¹  made a good start last year both in your giving and your desire to give,

For I do not say this so there would be relief for others and suffering for you, but as a matter of equality.