Know you not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor sodomites,

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

Food for the stomach, and the stomach for food; but God will destroy both it and them. And the body is not for fornication but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body;

Know you not that your bodies are Christ's members? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them a harlot's members? by no means.

Know you not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body [with her]? For the two, says he, shall be one flesh.

Know you not that your bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit in you which you have from God, and you are not your own?

CONCERNING what you wrote to me, it is good for a man not to touch a woman;

The wife has not the right to her body, but the husband; and in like manner the husband has not the right to his body, but the wife.

Withhold not yourselves from one another, except by agreement for a time that you may be at leisure for prayer, and come together again, that Satan may not tempt you by your incontinence.

But this I say by suggestion, not by command.

but if they have not self-control, let them marry; it is better to marry than to be incontinent.

But the married I charge, not I, but the Lord, Let not a wife separate from her husband,

and also if she is separated let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to the husband, and let not a husband leave his wife.

But to the rest I speak, not the Lord, If any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is pleased to live with him, let him not leave her;

and if any wife has an unbelieving husband and he is pleased to live with her, let her not leave the husband.

But if the unbelieving companion departs, let him depart; the brother or the sister is not bound in such cases; but God has called us to peace.

For how do you know, wife, that you will not save your husband? or how do you know, husband, that you will not save your wife?

Is any one called being circumcised, let him not be uncircumcised; is any one called in uncircumcision, let him not be circumcised.

were you called being a servant, care not for it; but if you can be free, use it rather.

You are bought with a price; be not servants of men.

Are you bound to a wife, seek not a release; are you released from a wife, seek not a wife.

But if you marry, you do not sin and if the virgin marries she does not sin. But such will have affliction in the flesh; but I spare you.

But this I say, brothers, the time is short, so that in future those who have wives should be as those not having them,

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

and those who use the world as those not abusing it; for the fashion of this world passes away.

But I say this for your own profit; not to impose a snare on you, but for [your] honor, and [your] attending on the Lord without distraction.

But if any one thinks that he behaves improperly to his virgin, if she is past her prime, and it must be so, let him do what he wishes; he does not sin; let them marry.

But he that stands firm in mind, not having a necessity, but has power over his will, and has determined in his mind to keep his virgin, does well.

He that gives in marriage therefore does well, and he that gives not in marriage does better.

But all have not this knowledge; and some with the conscience [unenlightened] even till now eat an idol's [sacrifice] as an idol's sacrifice, and their conscience being weak is defiled.

But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat not are we worse, nor if we eat are we better.

For if any one sees you who have knowledge reclining in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him that is weak be emboldened to eat things offered to idols?

And will not the weak brother for whom Christ died perish by your knowledge?

Wherefore, if food offends my brother, I will eat no meat forever, that I may not offend my brother.

AM I not a freeman? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord?

If I am not an apostle to others, I certainly am to you; for you are a seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

Have we not a right to eat and drink?

Have we not a right to lead about a sister, a wife, as also the other apostles; and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right to abstain from labor?

Who ever goes on a military expedition at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and eats not the fruit of it? or who feeds a flock and eats not of the milk of the flock?

Do I say these things in the manner of men? or does not the law also say the same?

For it is written in the law of Moses, You shall not muzzle the ox that threshes. Does God care for oxen?

And if others have this right, do we not have it more? But we have not used this right, but endure all things, that we may not impede the gospel of Christ.

Know you not that those who perform sacred rites eat from the temple? Those who wait on the altar partake of the altar?

But I have used none of these things, and I have not written these things that it should be so done to me; for I prefer to die, rather than that any one should make my boasting vain.

For if I preach the gospel I have nothing to boast of; for a necessity is laid upon me; for woe is me, if I preach not the gospel.

What then is my reward? That preaching I may make the gospel without expense, that I may not abuse my right in the gospel.

to the Jews I have been as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to those under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain those under the law;

to those without law, as without law, being not without law to God, but with law to Christ, that I might gain those without law;

Know you not that those who run in the race all indeed run, but one takes the prize. So run that you may obtain.

I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, and so strike, not as one who beats the air;

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

but with many of them God was not pleased; for they were destroyed in the wilderness.

But these things are examples for us, that we should not desire evil things, as they did.

For no trial has befallen you but what is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not permit you to be tried beyond what you are able, but with the trial will order the event, that you may be able to endure.

The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation of the body of Christ?

Consider Israel after the flesh; are not those who eat the sacrifices partakers of the altar?

But what the gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God; and I do not wish you to be partakers with demons.

All things are lawful, but all things are not expedient; all things are lawful, but all things do not edify.

But if any one says to you, This has been offered to an idol, eat not for his sake that informed you, and for conscience' sake.

I mean not your conscience, but that of the other. For why is my freedom limited by the conscience of another?

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

For if a woman is not veiled then let her hair be cut off; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off, or to be shaved, let her wear a veil.

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

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

for man also was not created because of the woman, but woman because of the man.

Does not nature herself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace to him?

But I tell you this, not to praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.

When you come together therefore, it is not to eat the Lord's supper,

Have you not [food] to eat and drink at your houses? or do you despise the church of God, and shame those who have not [houses]? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you? In this I commend you not.

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

for he eats and drinks judgment to himself, who eats and drinks not discerning the body.

For if we judged ourselves we should not be judged;

but being judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

If any one is hungry let him eat at home, that you come not together for judgment. The other things I will arrange when I come.

AND I wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, of the spiritual gifts.

For the body also is not one member but many.

If the foot says, Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body?

and if the ear says, Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body?

The eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you, or again, the head to the feet, I have no need of you;

for our comely ones have no need. But God has commingled the body, giving more abundant honor to that part which was lacking,

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not love, I am a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal.

And if I have prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.

And if I deal out all my property to feed the poor, and if I deliver my body to be burned, and have not love, I shall not be profited.

Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love is not boastful, is not puffed up,

does not behave unbecomingly, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, devises not evil,

rejoices not in wickedness, but rejoices in the truth;

For he that speaks with a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but in spirit he speaks mysteries;

So also you by a tongue if you utter a word not easily understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for you will speak to the air.

if therefore I do not know the meaning of the voice, I shall be to him that speaks a barbarian, and he that speaks will be a barbarian to me.

since if you bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupies the place of the unlearned say, Amen, to your thanksgiving, since he knows not what you say?

For you indeed give thanks well; but the other is not edified.

Brothers, be not children in understanding, but in malice be children, and in understanding be perfect men.

For it is written in the law, With other tongues, and with other lips will I speak to this people, and so they shall not understand me, says the Lord.

Tongues therefore are a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers, but prophecy is not for unbelievers but for believers.

If, therefore, the whole church comes together, and all speak with tongues, and there come in the unlearned and unbelieving, will they not say that you are mad?

for God is not [the friend] of disorder but of peace.

As in all the churches of the saints, let your women keep silence in the assemblies; for it is not permitted to them to speak, but to be in subjection, as the law also says.

Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues;

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