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so that I may come to you in joy by the will of God and find rest in your company.

so that you are not lacking in any gift, eagerly awaiting the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,

so that no one would say you were baptized in my name.

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to proclaim the gospel, not in wisdom of word, so that the cross of Christ will not be made empty.

and the base things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may abolish the things that are,

so that no flesh may boast before God.

so that, just as it is written, "Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord."

so that your faith would not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the depths graciously given to us by God,

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you thinks that he is wise in this age, he must become foolish, so that he may become wise.

Now these things, brothers, I have applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that in us you may learn not to go beyond what is written, so that no one of you will become puffed up on behalf of one against the other.

You are already filled, you have already become rich, you have ruled without us—and how I wish that you had ruled indeed so that we also might rule with you.

And you have become puffed up and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst.

deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, also was sacrificed.

Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

But this I say, brothers, the time has been shortened, so that from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none;

Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again—ever, so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.

If others share this authority over you, do we not more? Nevertheless, we did not use this authority, but we endure all things so that we will cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

But I have used none of these things. And I am not writing these things so that it will be done so in my case, for it would be better for me to die than have anyone make my boast an empty one.