even to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, and called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is both their Lord and ours;

I always give thanks unto my God, on your account, for the grace of God bestowed on you in Christ Jesus; that ye are enriched by Him with every gift,

so that ye are deficient in no gift, expecting the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ:

For I have been informed concerning you, my brethren, by some of Chloe's family, that there are contentions among you.

For the doctrine of the cross is to them, that perish, foolishness: but to us, who are saved, it is the power of God.

to the Jews indeed a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness; but to them that are called,

For ye see by your calling, brethren, that not many wise men according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called:

but God hath chosen things that are foolish in the eye of the world to put it's wise men to confusion; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the mighty;

and things in the opinion of the world ignoble, and despicable, and accounted as nothing, hath God chosen, to abolish things that are in esteem among men;

But ye are of Him in Christ Jesus, who from God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit of God; that we might know the things that are graciously bestowed upon us by God:

which we also speak of, not in words dictated by human wisdom, but in those which are dictated by the holy Spirit; explaining spiritual things by spiritual words.

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

I have fed you with milk, and not with meat; for ye were not hitherto able to bear it, nor yet are ye even now able.

Because ye are still carnal: for while there is among you envy and strife and divisions, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk as men?

For when one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos, are ye not carnal?

And he that planteth, and he that watereth, are as one: but each shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.

For we are fellow-laborers, the servants of God: and ye are the husbandry of God, ye are the building of God.

Do ye not know that ye are the temple of God, and the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

If any one destroy the temple of God, him will God destroy: for the temple of God is holy, and this temple are ye.

and again, "The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain."

Therefore let no one glory in men: for all things are yours;

whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or future, all are yours;

and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.

Ye are now full, ye are now rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I wish ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

For it seems to me that God hath as it were exhibited us the apostles last upon the stage as appointed to death; for we are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels and to men.

We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ: we are weak, but ye are strong: ye are honoured, but we are despised.

Even to this present time we suffer both hunger, and thirst, and nakedness, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling:

and we labour working with our own hands. When we are reviled, we bless: when persecuted, we bear it: when defamed, we intreat.

We are made as the filth of the world, and the refuse of all things to this day.

Now some are puffed up, as if I would not come to you.

But I will come to you soon, if the Lord please, and will know, not the speech of them that are puffed up, but the power:

And are ye puffed up, and have not rather grieved? that he who hath committed this fact might be expelled from among you?

when ye are assembled together with my spirit, by the power, I say,

For what have I to do to judge those that are without? and do not ye judge those that are within?

But those who are without, God judgeth: and therefore put away the wicked one from among you.

Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy of judging the smallest controversies?

Therefore if ye have controversies about the things of this life, do ye set them to judge, who are despised by the church?

And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the spirit of our God.

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be under the power of any:

meats are for the belly, and the belly for meats, but God will destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of an harlot?

and ye are not your own, for ye are bought with a price. Glorify God therefore in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

But those that are married, not I command, but the Lord, that the wife be not separated from her husband;

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband: else were your children unclean; but they are holy.

Ye are bought with a price, do not become the slaves of men.

For though there be some that are called Gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are among the heathen gods many,

and lords many,) yet to us there is but one God the Father, from whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by Him.

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

Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? and are not ye my work in the Lord?

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

Do ye not know, that they who are employed about the sacrifices have their food from the temple? and they, who attend at the altar, are partakers with the altar?

And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; that is, to those, who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law:

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

Now all these things happened to them as examples: and are written for our admonition, on whom the last ages are come.

No temptation has yet taken you but what is common to man: and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able to sustain; but will with the temptation also make a way of escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

For the bread is one, and we though many are one body; for we all partake of that one bread.

Consider Israel according to the flesh, Are not they, that eat of the sacrifices, partakers of the altar?

Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than He?

If all things be lawful for me, yet all things are not expedient: all things may be lawful for me, but all things do not edify.

For as the woman was originally from the man, so also is the man by the woman: but all things are from God.

For first when ye come together in the church, I hear there are divisions among you, and I partly believe it.

For there must be even heresies among you, that they who are approved may be made manifest among you.

For this many among you are weak and infirm, and several are fallen asleep.

but when judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit: and there are different offices, but the same Lord:

and there are diversities of operations,

For as the body is one, and hath many members; but all the parts of this one body, though many, are but one body:

so also is the mystical body of Christ; for by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, (whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free) and are all made to drink into one Spirit:

whereas now there are many members, yet but one body.

But those parts of the body, which seem to be weaker, are much more necessary:

Now ye are the body of Christ, and his members each of you in particular.

Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers?

have all miraculous powers? have all the gifts of healing? do all speak many languages? do all interpret? but ye are all zealous for the best gifts.

There are, it may be, as many kinds of voices in the world as people, and none of them insignificant.

So ye also, since ye are so desirous of spiritual gifts, seek to abound in them to the edification of the church.

So that tongues are for a sign, not to believers but to unbelievers: but prophecy not to unbelievers but to those that believe.

If then the whole church be come together and all speak in unknown tongues, and there come in illiterate persons, or infidels, will they not say that ye are mad?

And thus the secrets of his heart are made manifest; so that falling down upon his face he will worship God, declaring that God is indeed among you.

And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets:

Let your women be silent in your assemblies: for it is not permitted to them to speak, but they are to be in subjection, as the law saith.

If any one seem to be a prophet, or acted by the Spirit, let him acknowlege that what I write to you are the commandments of the Lord.

By which also ye are saved, if ye retain it as I preached it to you: unless indeed ye have believed in vain.

after that He appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain yet alive, but some are fallen asleep.

Yea, and we are found false witnesses concerning God, for we have testified of God, that He raised up Christ; whom He did not raise up, if indeed the dead do not rise.

and if Christ be not risen, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

Then they also that sleep in Christ, are perished.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

But each in their proper order: the first-fruits, Christ; afterwards they that are Christ's, at his coming.

for He hath put all things under his feet. But when He saith that all things are put under Him, it is plain that we are to except Him who put all things under Him.

Besides, what shall they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why then are they baptized for the dead?

And why are we in danger every hour?

But some will say, How are the dead raised, and with what body do they come?

There are also celestial bodies, and terrestrial bodies: but there is one glory of the celestial, and another of the terrestrial.

Such as the earthy was, such are they also that are earthy: and such, as is the heavenly, are they also that are heavenly.

though there are many opposers.

I beseech you, brethren, (for ye know the family of Stephanas, that they are the first-fruits of Achaia, and