1 1-2 A letter from Paul and Sosthenes to the church in Corinth.
7 So that you will be ready when Jesus comes again.
10 I beg you all to say the same thing and agree on everything.
11 I've heard from people in Chloe's house that some of you are arguing with each other.
12 You're all saying, "I belong to Paul," or "I belong to Apollo," or "I belong to Cephas." or "I belong to Christ."
13 Is Christ divided? Was I crucified for you? Were you baptized in the name of Paul?
14 Thank God I didn't baptize any of you, except for Crispus and Gaius.
15 Or some might say that I baptized in my own name.
16 I also baptized Stephanas's family. I can't remember whether I've baptized any others.
17 Because Christ didn't send me to baptize, but to preach.
19 Scripture says, "I'll destroy the wisdom of the wise and the understanding of the prudent."
21 God saved believers by the foolishness of preaching.
27 God chose the foolishness of the world to confound the wise.
2 I decided to know nothing but Jesus.
15 Spiritual people judge everything but are judged by no one.
3 4 One of you says, "I belong to Paul," and another, "I belong to Apollos."
Aren't you carnal?
15 If your work burns, you lose your work, but you save yourself with fire.
16 You are the temple of God, and the Spirit of God lives inside of you.
17 If you defile yourself, you defile the temple of God. And God will destroy you.
18 If you want to be wise, become a fool.
19 Because the wisdom of the world is foolishness to God.
20 God knows that the thoughts of the wise are worthless.
22 Paul, Apollos, Cephas, the world, life, death, and everything else is yours.
23 And you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
4 3 I don't care if you or anyone else judges me. I don't even judge myself.
4 I don't know of anything against me, but the Lord judges me.
5 Don't judge anyone or anything until the Lord comes.
10 We are fools for Christ’s sake.
16 Be followers of me.
5 1 I've heard that there are fornicators among you. One of you is having sex with his stepmother.
3 I've already judged him.
5 He should be given to Satan to destroy his body so that his spirit may be saved when Jesus returns.
9 In a previous epistle, I told you not to associate with fornicators.
10 I wasn't referring to fornicators who are nonbelievers, because then you'd have to stay away from everyone.
11 But you must shun all fornicators, idolaters, and drunkards who are believers. Don't even share a meal with them.
12 Why should we judge nonbelievers? Isn't it only believers that we should judge?
13 God will judge the nonbelievers. But you must shun wicked people.
6 1 Do you dare take a fellow believer to court to be judged by unjust people?
2 Don't you know that believers will judge everyone on earth?
3 We will judge angels, so we can judge everything in this life.
4 Don't take believers to court where they'll be judged by unbelievers.
9-10 Unrighteous people will not inherit the kingdom of God, including: Fornicators, idolater, adulterers, effeminate men, men who abuse themselves with other men, thieves, covetous, drunkards, revilers, or robbers.
12 Everything is lawful to me, but not everything is expedient.
But I am subject to no law.
13 Meat is for the belly, and the belly is for meat. But God will destroy both meat and bellies.
The body is for the Lord, not for fornication.
15 Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ?
Should the members of Christ become members of a harlot?
16 If you're joined to a harlot you become one body with the harlot.
The harlot and the body become one flesh.
18 Fornication is a sin against your own body.
19 And your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost.
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