Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius;

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.

For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us who are saved it is the power of God.

But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness;

But unto them who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

And my speech and my preaching were not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

But we speak wisdom among them that are mature: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nothing:

But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

But as it is written, Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love him.

But God has revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God.

For what man knows the things of a man, except the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knows no man, but the Spirit of God.

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

But he that is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.

Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

So then neither is he that plants anything, neither he that waters; but God that gives the increase.

According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds thereon. But let every man take heed how he builds thereupon.

If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not my own self.

For I know nothing against myself; yet am I not thereby justified: but he that judges me is the Lord.

We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honorable, but we are despised.

I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.

But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord wills, and will know, not the speech of them who are puffed up, but the power.

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

For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that has so done this deed,

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no not to eat.

But them that are outside God judges. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

But brother goes to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.

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

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

Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body; but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.

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

But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.

For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man has his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.

But if they cannot have self-control, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

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

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

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

But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God has called us to peace.

But as God has distributed to every man, as the Lord has called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

Are you called being a servant? care not for it: but if you may be made free, use it rather.

But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remains, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;

But I would have you without concern. He that is unmarried cares for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

But he that is married cares for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is proper, and that you may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

But if any man think that he behaves himself improperly toward his virgin, if she pass the prime of her age, and need so require, let him do what he desires, he sins not: let them marry.

Nevertheless he that stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own will, and has so decreed in his heart that he will keep her his virgin, does well.

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

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband is dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.

Now concerning things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.

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

As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

But there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience about the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.

But food commends us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.

But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours becomes a stumbling block to them that are weak.

But when you sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

If others be partakers of this right over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this right; but endure all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.

But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my boasting void.

For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a stewardship of the gospel is committed unto me.

To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law of Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.

Know you not that they who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain.

And every man that strives for self control is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

But I roughly treat my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.

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

There has no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above that you are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.

But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I would not that you should have fellowship with demons.

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.

Let no man seek his own, but every man another's good.

But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that showed it, and for conscience's sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof:

Conscience, I say, not your own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged by another man's conscience?

Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.

But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

But every woman that prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head: for that is one and the same as if she were shaven.

For if the woman is not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it is a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.

For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.

Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.

For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things are of God.

But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.

But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that you come together not for the better, but for the worse.

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

But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

Therefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Spirit.