For though ye have countless instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus I begot you through the good-news.

But as of me not coming to you, some men are puffed up.

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.

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

Fornication is actually heard among you, and such fornication that is not even named among the Gentiles, for some man to have his father's wife.

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.

Your boasting is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

Therefore we should feast, not by old leaven, nor by leaven of evil and wickedness, but by non-leaven of sincerity and truth.

I wrote to you in the letter not to associate with fornicators,

and not at all with the fornicators of this world, or with greedy men, or with predators, or with idolaters, since then ye would need to go out of the world.

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.

For what is in me to also judge those outside? Do ye not judge those inside?

Dare any of you, having a matter against the other, go to law before the unrighteous and not before the sanctified?

Or know ye not that the sanctified will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of very small legal disputes?

Know ye not that we will judge heavenly agents? Then why not mundane things?

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?

Now therefore it is indeed altogether a defeat for you because ye have legal disputes against yourselves. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

Or know ye not that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not led astray. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate men, nor homosexuals,

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 control by anything.

The foods are for the belly and the belly for foods, but God will abolish both this and these things. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Know ye not that your bodies are body-parts of Christ? Therefore, having taken the body-parts of the Christ, should I make them body-parts of a harlot? May it not happen!

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.

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

Now concerning the things of which ye wrote to me. It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

The wife has not the right of her private body, but the husband, and likewise also the husband has not the right of his private body, but the wife.

Do not defraud each other except from agreement for a time, so that ye may have time for fasting and prayer. And come together again for the same thing, so that Satan not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

But I say this from concession not from commandment.

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

But even if she separates, she shall remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband is not to leave his wife.

But to the rest I say, not the Lord. If any brother has an unbelieving wife, and this woman consents to dwell with him, he should not leave her.

And whichever woman has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to dwell with her, she should not leave him.

But if the unbeliever separates, he shall separate. The brother or the sister has not been bound in such things. And God has called us to peace.

Was any man called circumcised? He should not become uncircumcised. Was any man called in uncircumcision? He should not be circumcised.

Were thou called being a bondman? It should not concern thee. However if also thou are able to become free, take advantage of it instead.

Ye were bought with a price, become not bondmen of men.

Are thou bound to a wife? Do not seek separation. Are thou free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

But also if thou did marry thou have not sinned, and if the virgin married she has not sinned. Yet such kind will have stress in the flesh, but I spare you.

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.

And I say this for your own benefit, not that I may cast restraint upon you, but for what is respectable and assiduous toward the Lord, undistracted.

But if any man thinks to behave improperly toward his virgin, if it is past the best time, and so ought to happen, she should do what she wants, she does not sin, they should marry.

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.

Nevertheless the knowledge is not in all men, but some, with conscience of the idol until now, eat as sacrificed to idols, and their weak conscience is defiled.

But food does not present us to God, for neither if we eat are we ahead, nor if we do not eat are we behind.

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?

Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will no, not eat meat into the age, so that I may not cause my brother to stumble.

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

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

Have we no, not a right to eat and to drink?

Have we no, not a right to lead about a sister wife, as also the other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

Or have only I and Barnabas no right not to be occupied earning a living?

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?

Do I say these things according to man, or does not the law also say these things?

For it is written in the law of Moses thou shall not muzzle an ox threshing grain. Is God concerned about oxen,

If others are partakers of the right from you, are not we more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we cover all things, so that we may not give any hindrance to the good-news of the Christ.

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?

But I have used none of these things, and I did not write these things so that it should be done to me this way. For it is good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my boasting empty.

For if I preach the good-news, it is not a source of pride for me, for an obligation is laid upon me. And woe is to me if I do not preach the good-news.

What then is my reward? That, while preaching the good-news, I may make the good-news of the Christ without charge, in order not to make full use of my right in the good-news.

to those without law, as without law (not being without law to God, but within law to Christ), so that I might gain men without law.

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.

I therefore run this way, not as aimlessly. I fight this way, not as flaying air.

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

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

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

And ye should not grumble as some of them grumbled, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

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.

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

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

Rather, that which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become partakers of demons.

All things are permitted for me, but not all things are expedient. All things are permitted for me, but not all things are constructive.

Let not one man seek that of himself, but each man that of the other.

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.

And I say conscience, not the one of himself, but the one of the other man. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

just as I also strive to please in all things for all men, not seeking my own advantage, but that of the many, so that they may be saved.

For if a woman is not covered, let her also shear herself. But if it is an ugly thing for a woman to shear herself or be shaven, she should be covered.

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

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

For also man was not created for the woman, but woman for the man.

Or does not nature itself teach you that if a man actually wears long hair it is a disgrace to him?

Now in this that is commanded, I do not praise you, because ye do not assemble for the better but for the worse.

When therefore ye come together in the same place, it is not to eat the Lord's supper.

For have ye no houses to eat and to drink in? Or do ye disparage the church of God, and humiliate those not having? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise 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,

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

But if we were discerning ourselves we would not be judged.

But when we are judged by Lord, we are chastened so that we may not be condemned with the world.

And if any man is hungry, let him eat at home so that ye may not come together for condemnation. And the rest I will set in order as soon as I come.

Now concerning the spiritual things, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant.

For the body also is not one part, but many.

If the foot should say, Because I am not a hand I am not of the body, it is not by this not of the body.

And if the ear should say, Because I am not an eye I am not of the body, it is not by this not of the body.

And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee, nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

whereas our presentable parts have no need. Instead, God united the body together, having given more abundant worth to the part that lacks,

If I speak with the tongues of men and of heavenly agents, but have not love, I have become sounding brass, or a clashing cymbal.

And if I have prophecy, and know 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 dole out all things possessed by me, and if I deliver my body so that I may be burned, and have not love, I benefit nothing.

Love is patient and is kind. Love does not envy. Love does not brag, and is not puffed up.