and to me it is for a very little thing that by you I may be judged, or by man's day, but not even myself do I judge,

For, as it seems to me, God has exhibited us, the Apostles, last of all, as men doomed to death. We are made a spectacle to the universe, both to angels and to men!

As far as the present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are ill clothed, and are treated roughly, and are homeless.

we have worked with our hands for a living. When people abuse us, we bless them, when they persecute us, we put up with it,

It is actually reported [everywhere] that there is sexual immorality among you, a kind of immorality that is condemned even among the [unbelieving] Gentiles: that someone has [an intimate relationship with] his father’s wife.

For as being absent in body but present in spirit, I indeed have judged already as though I were present concerning him who worked out this thing;

for as God hath raised up the Lord, so will he likewise raise us up to partake of his own power.

Or do you not know that he who joins himself to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two shall become one flesh."

For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

I answer, with regard to the licentious, it is best for a man, to have his wife; and for a woman to have her husband.

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

For a Christian, if he was a slave when called, is the Lord's freed man, and in the same way a free man, if called, becomes the slave of Christ.

You were bought for a price. Stop becoming slaves of people.

I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to get free. Are you free from the marriage bond? Do not seek for a wife.

But if a person supposes it would be unseemly for a virgin of his if she should pass the flower of her age [in celibacy], and that duty directs it should be so, let him do as he is inclined, he doth not sin: let such marry.

A wife is bound for as long a time [as] her husband lives. But if her husband {dies}, she is free to marry whomever she wishes, only in the Lord.

For if someone should see you who has knowledge reclining for a meal in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, [because it] is weak, be strengthened so that [he] eats the food sacrificed to idols?

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

Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to stop doing manual labor [in order to support our ministry]?

Or has he us in mind? Yes, it was said for us; because it is right for the ploughman to do his ploughing in hope, and for him who is crushing the grain to do his work hoping for a part in the fruits of it.

But I, for my part, have not used, and do not use, my full rights in any of these things. Nor do I now write with that object so far as I myself am concerned, for I would rather die than have anybody make this boast of mine an empty one.

For if I announce the glad tidings, I have nothing to boast of; for a necessity is laid upon me; for it is woe to me if I should not announce the glad tidings.

I get a reward if I do it of my own accord, whereas to do it otherwise is no more than for a steward to discharge his trust.

Why, free as I am from all, I have made myself the slave of all, to win over as many as I could.

But every one that contends for a prize is temperate in all things: they then indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

Now these things were for an example to us, so that our hearts might not go after evil things, as they did.

And do not let us test the Lord too far, as some of them tested Him and were destroyed by the serpents.

Eat anything for sale in the meat market without raising any question, as far as conscience is concerned,

Now if an unbeliever invites you for a meal and you decide to go, eat whatever is set in front of you without asking any questions for [your] conscience' sake [See verse 25].

But if any one say to you, This hath been sacrificed to an idol,---eat it not; for his sake who informed thee, and for conscience-sake: for, as I said, the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof, so that thou mayst have food enough without it.

If, so far as I am concerned, I partake with a grateful heart, why am I to be found fault with in regard to a thing for which I give thanks?"

Be imitators of me, in so far as I in turn am an imitator of Christ.

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

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

for a man is not of a woman, but a woman is of a man,

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

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

In your own selves judge ye; is it seemly for a woman uncovered to pray to God?

Does not common sense itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him,

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

For as you eat, each of you rushes to eat his own supper, and one person goes hungry while another gets drunk.

For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.

Therefore, whoever eats the bread, or drinks the Lord's cup, in an irreverent spirit, will have to answer for an offence against the Lord's body and blood.

For a man puts himself in danger, if he takes part in the holy meal without being conscious that it is the Lord's body.

So, my brothers, when you assemble for a meal, wait for each other [i.e., so some will not be finished before others. See verse 21].

But a manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for a useful purpose.

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

For the person who speaks in a language [supernaturally] does not speak to people, but to God, for no one can understand him [i.e., unless there is an interpreter or it is the person's native language]; he speaks [previously] unrevealed truths under the influence of the Holy Spirit [or "in his spirit"]. [Note: For a correct understanding of this chapter, it must be kept in mind that Paul is addressing a misuse ofthe gift of speaking in languages supernaturally. The Corinthians were doing this in the wrong way and for the wrong purpose].

For if the trumpet gives an indistinct sound, who will get ready for a battle?

Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.

And if they would learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home: for it is shameful for a woman to speak in the church.

For at the very beginning of my teaching I gave you the account which I had myself received-that Christ died for our sins (as the Scriptures had foretold),

For as by man came death, so by man there is a coming back from the dead.

For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

For, as it says, He has put all things under his feet. But when he says, All things are put under him, it is clear that it is not said about him who put all things under him.

so also it hath been written, 'The first man Adam became a living creature,' the last Adam is for a life-giving spirit,

for as we have born the image of the terrestrial, so we shall bear the image of the celestial.

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at [the sound of] the last trumpet call. For a trumpet will sound, and the dead [who believed in Christ] will be raised imperishable, and we will be [completely] changed [wondrously transformed].

but it may be that I will stay with you [for a while], or even spend the winter, so that you may send me on my way to wherever I may go afterward.

But I shall stay at Ephesus till Pentecost. For a great and effectual door is opened to me,

For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.

It is a joy to me that Stephanas, Fortunatus and Achaicus have now arrived, because what was wanting so far as you are concerned they have supplied.

For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.

For as for our troubles which came upon us in the province of Asia, we would have you know, brethren, that we were exceedingly weighed down, and felt overwhelmed, so that we renounced all hope even of life.

for as many as are promises of God, in him are the Yes, and in him the Amen, for glory to God through us;

Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.

But, so far as I am concerned, I have resolved not to have a painful visit the next time I come to see you.

For if the operation of the law, giving death, recorded in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the eyes of the children of Israel had to be turned away from the face of Moses because of its glory, a glory which was only for a time:

For if the order which was for a time had its glory, much more will the eternal order have its glory.

Because it is God who said, Out of darkness light is to shine, who shone in our hearts for an enlightenment of the knowledge of the glory of God in the presence of Jesus Christ.

for as long as I live I shall be exposed to death for the sake of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest by the preservation of our mortal life.

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

while we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen; for the things that are seen are for a time, but those that are not seen eternal.

For as long as we are in this tabernacle, we sigh and are grieved: for we would not be unclothed: but would be clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

For at the Bar of the Christ we must all appear in our true characters, that each may reap the results of the life which he has lived in the body, in accordance with his actions--whether good or worthless.

For as God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their faults; and having set in us the word of reconciliation.

For He says,“At the acceptable time (the time of grace) I listened to you,
And I helped you on the day of salvation.” Behold, now is “the acceptable time,” behold, now is “the day of salvation”—

Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.

and what consent of Christ with Beliar, or what part for a believer along with an unbeliever?

and I will be to you for a Father, and ye shall be to me for sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

I do not say this to imply blame, for, as I have already said, you have such a place in our hearts that we would die with you or live with you.

For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season.

For a godly sorrow works repentance unto salvation not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world works out death.

I am therefore not now ashamed, though I boasted myself to him of you. For as all things which I preached unto you are true, even so is our boasting - that I boasted myself to Titus withal - found true.

For I testify that according to their ability, and beyond their ability, they gave voluntarily,

Now, carry it through, so that your readiness to take it up may be equalled by the way you carry it through ??so far as your means allow.

So as far as Titus is concerned, he is my partner and comrade in my work for you, while these brothers of ours represent the churches, and are a credit to Christ.

For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:

for I know your readiness, of which I glory on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia hath been prepared for a year past; and your zeal hath stirred up very many of them.

each one, according as he doth purpose in heart, not out of sorrow or out of necessity, for a cheerful giver doth God love,

But we will not boast {beyond limits}, but according to the measure of the assignment that God has assigned to us as a measure to reach even as far as you.

For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ:

Not taking credit to ourselves for what is not our business, that is, for the work of others; but having hope that, with the growth of your faith, we may get the credit for an increase which is the effect of our work,

For a man is proved worthy, not by his self-commendation, but when he is commended by the Lord.

and when I was with you and needed money, I never burdened a single one of you for a cent, for the brothers came from Macedonia and supplied what I needed. And so I kept myself, as I shall always do, from being a burden to you in any way.

As surely as I know anything of the Truth of Christ, this boast, as far as I am concerned, shall not be stopped in any part of Greece.

But what I do, I will also do, that I may cut off the opportunity of those wishing for an opportunity, that wherein they boast they may be found even as we.

for as wise as you are your selves, you easily bear with the folly of others.