that in everything you are enriched by Him, in all speech and in all knowledge;

so that you come behind in no gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

He shall also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

But I exhort you, brothers, 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.

For it has been declared to me concerning you, my brothers, by those of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

But I say this, that every one of you says, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ.

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

lest any should say that I had baptized in my own name.

For you see your calling, brothers, that not many wise men according to the flesh are called, not many mighty, not many noble.

and God has chosen the base things of the world, and things which are despised, and things which are not, in order to bring to nothing things that are;

so that no flesh should glory in His presence.

so that, according as it is written, "He who glories, let him glory in the Lord."

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

But, we speak wisdom among those who are perfect; yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, that come to nothing.

But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit from God, so that we might know the things that are freely given to us by God.

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

For you are yet carnal. For in that there is among you envyings and strife and divisions, are you not carnal, and do you not walk according to men?

Do you not know that you are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool so that he may be wise.

And again, "The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain."

And the rest, it is sought among stewards that one be found faithful.

But to me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a man's day; but I do not judge my own self,

And these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that you might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, so that no one of you may be puffed up against one another.

For who makes you to differ from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

Already you are full! Already you are rich! You have reigned as kings without us! And oh that indeed you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

For I think that God has set forth us last, the apostles, as it were appointed to death; for we have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to men.

On the whole it is reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even named among the nations, so as one to have his father's wife.

And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, so that he who has done this deed may be taken from your midst.

to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

Therefore purge out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For also Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.

Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

Do you not know that we shall judge angels, not to mention the things of this life?

For I speak to your shame. Is it so that there is not a wise one among you, not even one in your midst who shall be able to judge between his brother?

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

Indeed then there is already on the whole a failure among you, that you have lawsuits with yourselves. Why not instead be wronged? Why not instead be defrauded?

Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor abusers, nor homosexuals,

Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of a harlot? Let it not be!

Or do you not know that he being joined to a harlot is one body? For He says, The two shall be one flesh.

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

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, whom you have of God? And you are not your own,

Do not deprive one another, unless it is with consent for a time, so that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer. And come together again so that Satan does not tempt you for your incontinence.

For I would that all men were even as I myself am. But each has his proper gift from God, one according to this manner and another according to that.

Then I think this is good, because of the present necessity; that it is good for a man to be so.

But this I say, brothers, The time is short. It remains that both those who have wives should be as not having one.

But I desire you to be without anxiety. The one who is unmarried cares for the things that belong to the Lord, how to please the Lord.

The wife and the virgin are different. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who 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 on you, but for that which is right, and that you may attend on the Lord without distraction.

But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but who has authority over his own will (and has so judged in his heart that he will keep his virginity) he does well.

But she is happier if she so remains, according to my judgment. And I also think that I have the Spirit of God.

But concerning the sacrifices to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.

And if any man thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.

Then concerning the eating of the things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one.

Therefore, if food offends my brother, I will eat no flesh forever, that I do not offend my brother.

Or does He say it altogether for our sakes? It was written for us, so that he who plows should plow in hope, and so that he who threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope.

Do you not know that those who minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? And those attending the altar are partakers with the altar.

But I have used none of these things, nor have I written these things that it should be done so to me; for it is good for me rather to die than that anyone nullify my glorying.

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

For though I am free from all, yet I have made myself servant to all, so that I might gain the more.

And to the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might gain the Jews. To those who are under the Law, I became as under the Law, so that I might gain those who are under the Law.

To those who are outside Law, I became as outside Law (not being outside law to God, but under the Law to Christ), so that I might gain those who are outside Law.

To the weak I became as the weak, so that I might gain the weak. I am made all things to all men, so that I might by all means save some.

And this I do for the sake of the gospel, so that I might be partaker of it with you.

Do you not know that those running in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain.

And everyone who strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Then those truly that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

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

and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank of the spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.

And these things were our examples, that we should not be lusters after evil, as they also lusted.

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

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

What then do I say? That the idol is anything, or that an idolatrous sacrifice is anything?

But I say that the things which the nations sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. And I do not desire that you should have fellowship with demons.

For if I by grace am a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?

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

But I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and you keep the doctrines as I delivered them to you.

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 who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled dishonors her head; for that is even the same as if she were shaved.

Judge among yourselves: is it right that a woman pray to God unveiled?

Does not even nature itself teach you that if man has long hair, it is a shame to him?

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

For there must also be heresies among you, that the approved ones may be revealed among you.

For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was betrayed took bread;

So that whoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily, he will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

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 by the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

So that, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

But if anyone hungers, let him eat at home, so that you do not come together to condemnation. And the rest I will set in order when I come.

You know that being led away, you nations were led to dumb idols.

Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says Jesus is a curse, and that no one can say that Jesus is Lord, but by the Holy Spirit.

For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

that there not be division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another.

But when the perfect thing comes, then that which is in part will be caused to cease.

Follow after charity and desire spiritual things, but rather that you may prophesy.

I wish all of you to speak in languages, but rather that you may prophesy; for greater is he prophesying than he speaking in tongues, unless he interpret so that the church may receive building up.

Even so you, since you are zealots of spiritual things, seek to build up the church, in order that you may abound

So then he speaking in a language, let him pray that he may interpret.

I thank my God that I speak more languages than all of you;

yet in a church I desire to speak five words with my mind, so that I might also teach others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

So that tongues are not a sign to those who believe, but to those who do not believe. But prophesying is not to those who do not believe, but to those who believe.

Therefore if the whole church has come together, and all speak in languages, and if uninstructed ones or unbelievers come in, will they not say that you rave?