I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;

so that you are not lacking in any gift, as you wait for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe's household, that there are contentions among you.

Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul?

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to proclaim the Good News?not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ would not be made void.

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

For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing."

For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not know God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,

For consider your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;

And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the ages for our glory,

which none of the rulers of this age has understood. For had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

But as it is written, No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has imagined the things which God has prepared for those who love him.

But to us God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

For who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? So also, no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

Now the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

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

I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you weren't yet ready. And even now you are still not ready,

for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, are you not fleshly, and do you not walk in the ways of men?

For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," are you not men?

For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.

For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.

each man's work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man's work is.

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

If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He has taken the wise in their craftiness."

Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to go beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you did not receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

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

For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing.

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

Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed.

yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world.

For what have I to do with also judging those who are outside? Do you not judge those who are within?

"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 the power of anything.

"Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, "The two," says he, "will become one flesh."

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body.

Now concerning the things about which you wrote: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Do not deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to prayer, and may be together again, that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

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

But if they do not have self-control, let them marry. For it's better to marry than to burn.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the brother. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

Were you called being a bondservant? Do not let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.

For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord's free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ's bondservant.

I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is.

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.

For though there are things that are called "gods," whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many "gods" and many "lords;"

yet to us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.

But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we do not eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol's temple, won't his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whom the Christ died.

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

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

For it is written in the Law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain." Is it for the oxen that God cares,

or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in the hope of having a share.

But I have used none of these things, and I do not write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

For if I proclaim the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I do not proclaim the Good News.

For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

Now I do all things for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

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

Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread.

Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,

for "the earth is the Lord's, and its fullness."

But if one of those who do not believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.

But if anyone says to you, "This was offered to idols," do not eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience.

Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other's conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced for that for which I give thanks?

Give no occasions for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God;

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.

For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.

For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.

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

for neither was man created for the woman, but woman for the man.

For this cause the woman ought to have authority on her head, because of the messengers.

For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.

Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled?

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

But in giving you this command, I do not praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.

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

For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.

For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunk.

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

When he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my body, which is for you. Do this in memory of me."

For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.