Now I beseech you, brothers, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and there be no divisions among you, but ye may be thoroughly prepared in the same mind and in the same understanding.

For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to preach the good-news, not in wisdom of speech lest the cross of Christ would be emptied.

For the message of the cross is of course, foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is a power of God.

but we proclaim Christ crucified, truly to Jews a stumbling-block and to Gentiles foolishness.

But to them, to the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.

But God chose the foolish things of the world, so that he might humiliate the wise, and God chose the weak things of the world, so that he might humiliate the powerful.

But ye are his, in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of spirit and of power,

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

But we speak wisdom among the fully developed, but not a wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age who come to nothing.

But we speak a wisdom of God in a hidden mystery, which God predestined before the ages for our glory,

But as it is written, What an eye has not seen, and an ear has not heard, and have not arisen in a heart of a man, are things that God prepared for those who love him.

But God disclosed it to us through his Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

But we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the spirit from God, so that we might know the things graciously given to us by God.

Which things also we speak, not in things learned from mankind, in words of wisdom, but in things learned from Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

But truly the spiritual man evaluates all things, but he himself is evaluated by none.

For who has known the mind of Lord that he will stand with him? But we have the mind of Christ.

And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, as to the childlike in Christ.

I gave you milk to drink and not solid food, for ye were not yet able. But not even yet are ye able,

Who therefore is Paul and who is Apollos? But rather helpers through whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to each man.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused growth.

So then neither is he who plants anything, nor he who waters, but God who causes growth.

Now he who plants and he who waters are one, but each man will receive his own payment according to his own labor.

According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master builder, I laid a foundation and another man is building on it. But let each man take heed how he is building on it.

If any man's work will be burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but so as through fire.

But it is a very small thing to me that I might be appraised by you or by a day of mankind. Yet neither do I appraise myself,

for I know nothing on myself. Yet I have not been made righteous in this, but he who appraises me is Lord.

We are foolish for the sake of Christ, but ye are wise in Christ. We are weak, but ye are strong. Ye are esteemed, but we are disreputable.

I do not write these things shaming you, but I warn you as my beloved children.

But as of me not coming to you, some men are puffed up.

But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord should will, and I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.

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

For I truly, as being absent in the body but present in the spirit, I have already, as though present, judged the man who committed this thing this way.

Therefore we should feast, not by old leaven, nor by leaven of evil and wickedness, but by non-leaven of sincerity and truth.

But now I write to you not to associate if any man who is called a brother is a fornicator, or a greedy man, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or a predator, not even to eat with such kind.

But God judges those outside. And ye yourselves shall drive out the evil man from you.

But brother goes to law against brother, and this before unbelievers?

And some of you were these things, but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were made righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

All things are lawful for me, but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under control by anything.

The foods are for the belly and the belly for foods, but God will abolish both this and these things. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

Flee fornication. Every sin, whatever a man may do, is outside the body, but he who fornicates sins against his own body.

But because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

The wife has not the right of her private body, but the husband, and likewise also the husband has not the right of his private body, but the wife.

But I say this from concession not from commandment.

But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I.

But if they have no self-control they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn.

And to those who are married, I do not command but the Lord. The wife is not to separate from her husband.

But even if she separates, she shall remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband is not to leave his wife.

But to the rest I say, not the Lord. If any brother has an unbelieving wife, and this woman consents to dwell with him, he should not leave her.

For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified by the husband, then otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

But if the unbeliever separates, he shall separate. The brother or the sister has not been bound in such things. And God has called us to peace.

Now concerning the virgins I have no commandment of Lord, but I give an opinion, as having obtained mercy from Lord to be trustworthy.

But also if thou did marry thou have not sinned, and if the virgin married she has not sinned. Yet such kind will have stress in the flesh, but I spare you.

But this I say, brothers, the time is shortened. It is the remaining, so that also those who have wives may be as not having,

But I want you to be without worry. The unmarried man cares for things of the Lord, how he will please the Lord.

But he who is married cares for things of the world, how he will please his wife.

And the wife and the virgin are differentiated. The unmarried woman is concerned for the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married is concerned for the things of the world, how s

And I say this for your own benefit, not that I may cast restraint upon you, but for what is respectable and assiduous toward the Lord, undistracted.

But if any man thinks to behave improperly toward his virgin, if it is past the best time, and so ought to happen, she should do what she wants, she does not sin, they should marry.

But he who stands firm in his heart, not having necessity, but has power based upon his own will, and has decided this in his heart, to keep his own celibacy, does well.

And therefore he who gives in marriage does well, but he who does not give in marriage does better.

A wife is bound by law as long a time as her husband lives, but also if the husband should sleep, she is free to be married to whom she desires, only in Lord.

But she is more blessed if she remains this way according to my opinion. And I also seem to have Spirit of God.

Now about the things sacrificed to idols. We know that all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

But if any man loves God, this man is known by him.

Nevertheless the knowledge is not in all men, but some, with conscience of the idol until now, eat as sacrificed to idols, and their weak conscience is defiled.

But food does not present us to God, for neither if we eat are we ahead, nor if we do not eat are we behind.

But take heed lest somehow this privilege of yours becomes a stumbling-block to those who are weak.

If others are partakers of the right from you, are not we more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we cover all things, so that we may not give any hindrance to the good-news of the Christ.

But I have used none of these things, and I did not write these things so that it should be done to me this way. For it is good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my boasting empty.

For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward, but if involuntarily, I have been entrusted with a commission.

to those without law, as without law (not being without law to God, but within law to Christ), so that I might gain men without law.

Know ye not that those who run in an arena, indeed all run, but one receives the prize? So run that ye may seize it.

And every man who strives for mastery exercises self-control in all things. Indeed therefore those men do it so that they might obtain a perishable crown, but we an imperishable.

But I give my body a black eye and subdue it, lest somehow having preached to others, I myself might become disqualified.

But I want you not to be ignorant, brothers, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,

But these things became our examples, for us not to be men who lust for evil things as those also lusted.

No temptation has taken you except is common to man. But God is faithful who will not allow you to be tempted above what ye are able, but with the temptation will also make the way to escape, to enable you to endure.

All things are permitted for me, but not all things are expedient. All things are permitted for me, but not all things are constructive.

Let not one man seek that of himself, but each man that of the other.

But if any man say to you, This is a sacrifice to an idol, do not eat for the sake of that man who informed, and the conscience, for the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness of it.

And I say conscience, not the one of himself, but the one of the other man. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

just as I also strive to please in all things for all men, not seeking my own advantage, but that of the many, so that they may be saved.

But I want you to know that the head of every man is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for it is one and the same thing as the woman who has been shaven.

For if a woman is not covered, let her also shear herself. But if it is an ugly thing for a woman to shear herself or be shaven, she should be covered.

For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, being an image and glory of God, but woman is a glory of man.

For man is not from woman, but woman from man.

For also man was not created for the woman, but woman for the man.

For just as the woman is from the man, so also the man is through the woman. But all things are from God.

But if a woman wears long hair, it is a glory to her, because her hair has been given for a cloak.

But if any man appears to be a lover of strife, we have no such custom, nor the congregations of God.

Now in this that is commanded, I do not praise you, because ye do not assemble for the better but for the worse.

But let a man examine himself, and let him so eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

But if we were discerning ourselves we would not be judged.

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

Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit.

And there are varieties of functions, but it is the same God who works all in all.

But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each man toward that which is beneficial.