I did, in deed, immerse the household of Stephanus; besides, I know not whether I immersed any other.

For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of speech, lest the cross of the Christ should be deprived of its power.

Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of- this world?

For, since in the wisdom of God, the world, by its wisdom, knew not God, it has pleased God, through the foolishness of what is preached, to save those who believe.

For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise men according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble call you;

and the ignoble things of the world, and the things that are despised, has God chosen, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nought things that are;

And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellence of speech or of wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God.

For I determined not to know any thing among you but Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

and my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

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

Yet we speak wisdom among the perfect; but not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are brought to nought:

which none of the rulers of this age knew; for, had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory.

But, as it is written: Eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and into the heart of man have not entered the things which God has prepared for them that love him.

And we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God:

which things also we speak, not in words taught by man's wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

But an animal man receives not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he can not know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you, as to spiritual men, but as to those who are carnal, as to babes in Christ.

I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you were not then able to bear it; indeed, not even now are you able;

for you are yet carnal. For, since envy and strife and divisions are among you, are you not carnal, and do you not walk as men?

For when one says, I am of Paul, and another, I of Apollos, are you not carnal?

Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

But with me, it matters very little, that I should be judged by you, or by the judgment of men: indeed, I do not judge myself.

For, though I am conscious of no wrong, yet by this I am not justified: but he that judges me is the Lord.

And these things, brethren, I have, in figure, applied to my self and Apollos, for your sakes, that you may learn in us not to think more of teachers than what has been written; and that no one of you be vain of one to the injury of another.

For who gave you distinction, as a teacher? And what have you as a teacher, that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast, as if you had not received it?

I do not write these things that I may make you ashamed; but as my beloved children I admonish you.

For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet you have not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

Now, some have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you;

but I will come to you quickly, if the Lord will; and I will know, not the speech of those who have become arrogant, but the power.

For the kingdom of God is not in speech, but in power.

It is generally reported that there is lewdness among you; and such lewdness as is not even mentioned among the Gentiles that a certain one has his father's wife.

And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that has done this deed might be taken from among you.

Your boasting is not good; know you not that a little leaven leavens the whole mass?

Therefore, let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of purity and truth.

I have written to you in the letter not to associate with lewd persons;

but now I write to you, not to associate with any one professing to be a brother, if he is lewd or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner: with such a one not even to eat.

For what right have I to judge those who are without? Do you not judge those who are within?

Does any one of you that has a matter of dispute with another, presume to be judged before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

Know you not that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you unworthy to decide concerning the smallest matters?

Know you not that we shall judge angels? Much more then, things pertaining to this life.

I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not among you a wise man, not even one, who shall be able to arbitrate between his brethren?

Now, certainly, you are altogether in fault, that you have law-suits with one another. Why do you not rather suffer injustice? Why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither lewd persons, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor sodomites,

All meats are lawful for me: but all are not profitable. All are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under subjection by any.

Meats for the stomach, and the stomach for meats; but God will destroy both it and them. But the body is not for lewdness, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body:

Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I, then, take the members of the Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? It must not be.

Know you not that he that is joined to a harlot, is one body? For the two, says the scripture, shall be one flesh.

Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?

Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me, it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

The wife has not power over her own body, but the husband; likewise, also, the husband has not power over his own body, but the wife.

Debar not one another, unless by agreement for a time, that you may have leisure for prayer; and come together again, lest Satan tempt you through your incontinence.

But this I say by permission, not by commandment:

But if they can not be continent, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

But to the married I give commandment, not I, but the Lord: Let not the wife leave her husband:

but if she leave him, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and, let not the husband put away his wife.

But to the rest, I, and not the Lord, say: If any brother has a wife that believes not, and she is well pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

And if any woman has a husband that believes not, and he is well pleased to dwell with her, let her not put him away.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; for if not, then are your children unclean; but now they are holy.

But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart; the brother or sister is not bound in such cases. But God has called us to live in peace.

Has any one been called that had been circumcised? Let him not seek to remove the mark of circumcision. Has any one been called that had not been circumcised? Let him not be circumcised,

Were you a servant when you were called? Care not for it. But if you can become free, rather enjoy your freedom.

You have been bought with a price; become not the servants of men.

Are you bound to a wife? Seek not a separation. Are you loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.

But if you should marry, you would not sin. And if a virgin should marry, she would not sin. But such will have affliction in the flesh. But I spare you.

Now, this I say, brethren, the time is fraught with trials. It remains that those who have wives be as though they had them not;

and those who weep, as though they wept not; and those who rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and those who buy, as though they possessed not:

and those who use this world, as not abusing it; for the outward show of this world passes away.

I speak this for your own profit; not that I would entangle you, but that you may decorously and devotedly wait upon the Lord, without distraction.

But if any man thinks he would treat his virgin daughter amiss, should she pass the bloom of life, and it is necessary that it should be so, let him do as he pleases, he does not sin; let them (the suitor and the daughter) marry.

So then, even he that gives her in marriage, does well; but he that gives her not in marriage, does better.

But all have not this knowledge; for some, under the persuasion that an idol is a reality, even yet eat meat, as if it were offered to an idol, and their conscience being weak, is defiled.

But meat commends us not to God; for, neither if we eat are we better, nor, if we eat not, are we worse.

For, if any one see you, who have knowledge, reclining at table in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened, so that he will eat meats offered to idols?

and will not the weak brother, for whom Christ died, perish through your knowledge?

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord-? Are you not my work in the Lord?

If I am not an apostle to others, yet certainly I am to you; for the seal of my apostleship are you in the Lord.

Have we not the right to eat and drink?

Have we not the right to lead about a sister wife, as the other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

What man ever serves as a soldier, at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and eats not of its fruit? Or who tends a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock?

Do I speak these things as a man? Or does not the law, also, say the same?

For it is written in the law of Moses: You shall not muzzle the ox that treads out the grain? Has God a care for oxen?

If others partake of this right over you, should not we rather? But we have not used this right: but we endure all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of the Christ.

Do you not know that those who are engaged about sacred rites have their living from the temple? and that those who attend upon the altar are partakers with the altar?

For though I preach the gospel, I have no cause for boasting; for a necessity is laid upon me; yes, alas for me, if I preach not the gospel.

What, then, is my reward? That, while I preach, I may make the gospel of Christ to be without charge, in order that I may not abuse my authority in the gospel.

And to the Jews, I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews: to those who are under law, as under law, (not being myself under law,) that I might gain those who are under law;

to those who are without law, as without law, (not being myself without law to God, but under law to Christ,) that I might gain those who are without law:

Know you not that all the runners in the race-course run the race, but that one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain the prize.

I, therefore, so run, not as with uncertainty; I so aim my blows, not as one that beats the air;

Now, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and that all passed through the sea,

But with the most of them God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

Now these things took place as examples for us, that we should not desire evil things, as they, also, desired.

No trial has come upon you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tried more than you are able to bear; but he will, with the trial, make a way to escape, so that you be able to bear up under it.

The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the participation of the blood of the Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the participation of the body of the Christ?

Look at Israel according to the flesh: are not those who eat the sacrifices partakers with the altar?

But I say, that the things which the Gen tiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. I do not wish you to be partakers with demons.

You can not drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: you can not be partakers of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.

All meats are lawful for me; but all are not profitable; all are lawful, but all do not edify.

But if any one say to you: This is sacrificed to idols; eat not, for the sake of him that pointed it out, and for conscience sake:

conscience, I say, not your own, but that of the other. Why, then, is my liberty judged by the conscience of another?