You should know that you yourselves are God's temple. God's Spirit lives in you.

If you destroy God's temple, God will destroy you, because God's temple is holy.

You yourselves are God's temple. Don't fool yourselves.

Whoever thinks they are wise in this world should become a fool.

“The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise. He knows that their thoughts are worth nothing.”

So there is not a person on earth that any of you should be boasting about. Everything is yours:

Paul, Apollos, Peter, the world, life, death, the present, and the future—all these are yours.

And you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.

The LORD'S message came to me: “Before I made you in your mother's womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I chose you for a special work. I chose you to be a prophet to the nations.” Then I said, “But, Lord GOD, I don't know how to speak. I am only a boy.” But the LORD said to me, “Don't say, 'I am only a boy.' You must go everywhere I send you and say everything I tell you to say. Don't be afraid of anyone. I am with you, and I will protect you.” This message is from the LORD. Then the LORD reached out with his hand and touched my mouth. He said to me, "Jeremiah, I am putting my words in your mouth.

Then John said, “Teacher, we saw a man using your name to force demons out of someone. He is not one of us. So we told him to stop, because he does not belong to our group.” Jesus said, "Don't stop him. Whoever uses my name to do powerful things will not soon say bad things about me. Whoever is not against us is with us. I can assure you that anyone who helps you by giving you a drink of water because you belong to the Messiah will definitely get a reward.

The LORD said to Moses, "Bring to me 70 of the elders of Israel. These men are the leaders among the people. Bring them to the Meeting Tent. Let them stand there with you. Then I will come down and speak with you there. The Spirit is on you now. But I will also give some of that Spirit to them. Then they will help you take care of the people. In this way you will not have to be responsible for these people alone.

"Tell the people this: Make yourselves ready for tomorrow. Tomorrow you will eat meat. The LORD heard you when you cried out and said, 'We need meat to eat! It was better for us in Egypt!' So now the LORD will give you meat. And you will eat it. You will eat it for more than one, or two, or five, or ten, or even twenty days!

Moses said, “There are 600,000 soldiers here, and you say, 'I will give them enough meat to eat for a whole month!' If we were to kill all the sheep and cattle, that would still not be enough to feed this many people for a month. And if we caught all the fish in the sea, it would not be enough for them!” But the LORD said to Moses, “Don't limit my power! You will see that I can do what I say I can do.” So Moses went out to speak with the people. He told them what the LORD said. Then he gathered 70 of the elders together and told them to stand around the Tent.

Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to Moses. He put on the 70 elders some of the same Spirit that was on Moses. After the Spirit came down on them, they began to prophesy. But that was the only time they ever did this. Two of the elders, Eldad and Medad, did not go out to the Tent. Their names were on the list of elders, but they stayed in camp. But the Spirit also came on them, and they began prophesying in camp.

A young man ran and told Moses. The man said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in camp.” Joshua son of Nun said to Moses, “Moses, sir, you must stop them!” (Joshua had been Moses' helper since Joshua was a boy.) But Moses answered, “Are you afraid the people will think that I am not the leader now? I wish that all the LORD'S people were able to prophesy. I wish that the LORD would put his Spirit on all of them!”