to the congregation of God that is at Corinth, to called men, to holy men who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus with all in every place who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ--both ours and theirs.

who will also confirm you until the end, irreproachable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

God is faithful through whom ye were called for the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

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.

For since in the wisdom of God the world did not know God through its wisdom, it pleased God through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.

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

so that, just as it is written, He who boasts, let him boast in Lord.

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 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.

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

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

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.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, He who catches the wise in their craftiness,

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

Therefore do not judge anything before time, until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make public the deliberations of the hearts. And then praise will come to each man from God.

For who makes thee different? And what have thou that thou did not receive? And also if thou received it, why do thou boast as not having received it?

Because of this I sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ, just as I teach everywhere in every congregation.

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.

And ye are puffed up and did not rather mourn, so that he who committed this deed might be taken away from the midst of you.

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.

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.

Indeed therefore whenever ye have mundane legal disputes, men who are disdained by the church, these ye seat to judge.

I speak shame about you. So there is not among you not even one wise man who will be able to arbitrate between his brother?

Or know ye not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For, The two, he says, will be in one flesh.

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.

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

For he who was called in Lord a bondman is a freedman of Lord. Likewise also he who was called a free man is a bondman of Christ.

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,

and those who weep, as not weeping, and those who rejoice, as not rejoicing, and those who buy, as not possessing,

and those who use this world, as not making full use, for the form of this world passes away.

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

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.

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 through him.

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

For if some man sees thee, who have knowledge, dining in an idol-temple, will not his conscience, being weak, be strengthened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

And by thy knowledge the brother, being weak, will be ruined, for whom Christ died.

My defense to those who examine me is this.

Who ever enlists in an army at his own wage? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat from the fruit of it? Or who feeds a flock and does not eat from the milk of the flock?

or does he speak altogether for our sake? For our sake, for it was written, He who plows ought to plow with hope, and he who threshes with his hope, with hope to share.

Know ye not that those being employed at the sacred things eat from the temple, and those who serve at the altar are partakers at the altar?

And so the Lord commanded those who proclaim the good-news to live from the good-news.

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

Now all these things happened to those men for examples, and they were written for our admonition, to whom the ends of the ages came.

Therefore let him who seems to stand take heed lest he fall.

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.

Look at Israel according to flesh. Those who eat the sacrifices, are they not partakers of the altar?

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.

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 he who eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks condemnation to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord.

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

And in the church God has placed men who are first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, kinds of tongues.

For he who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men, but to God, for no man hears, but in spirit he speaks mysteries.

But he who prophesies speaks to men edification and encouragement and comfort.

He who speaks in a tongue builds himself up, but he who prophesies builds up the congregation.

Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but more that ye may prophesy. For greater is he who prophesies than he who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, so that the congregation may receive edification.

For also if a trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who will prepare himself for battle?

If therefore I know not the force of the voice, I will be a foreigner to him who speaks, and he who speaks will be a foreigner to me.

Therefore let him who speaks in a tongue pray that he may interpret.

Otherwise if thou would bless with the spirit, how will the man who fills the place of the unlearned, say the Truly at thy thanksgiving, since he knows not what thou say?

Therefore tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving. But prophesying is not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe.

But if it should be revealed to another man who is seated, let the first be silent.

Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, of whom the greater part remain until now, but some also slept.

For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

And also we are found FALSE witnesses of God, because we witnessed according to God that he raised up the Christ, whom he did not raise up, if therefore the dead are really not raised.

Then also those who slept in Christ have perished.

If we are men who have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men more miserable.

But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruit of those who are asleep.

For he subordinated all things under his feet. But when he says that all things have been subordinated, it is clear that he who subordinated all things under him, is excepted.

And when all things are made subordinate to him, then the Son himself will also be made subordinate to him who subordinated all things to him, so that God may be all in all.

Otherwise what will they do who are immersed for the dead? If the dead do not rise at all, why then are they immersed for the dead?

But thanks is to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

For a great and effective door has opened to me, and yet there are many who are hostile.