And I baptized also the household of Stephanas; I am not aware that I baptized any one besides.

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel; not with wisdom of speech, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.

Where is the wise man? Where the scribe? Where the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by its wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe;

For consider, brethren, who ye are that have been called; not many wise men after the fashion of the world, not many mighty, not many noble;

and the mean things of the world, and the things which are despised, did God choose, the things which are not, to bring to nought things that are;

And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech, or of wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God.

For I determined not to know anything while with you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

and my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit, and of power;

that your faith might not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.

But we do speak wisdom among the perfect; not, however, the wisdom of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nought;

which none of the rulers of this world comprehended; for had they comprehended it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;

but, as it is written: "The things which eye hath not seen, and ear hath not heard, and which have not entered into the heart of man, the great things which God hath prepared for those that love him."

But we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that have been given to us by the grace of God;

which things we also speak, not in words taught by mans wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, connecting what is spiritual l with what is spiritual.

But the unspiritual man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot know them; because they are spiritually discerned.

I also, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual men, but as those who are not spiritual, as to babes in Christ.

I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able to bear it. Nor indeed are ye able even now;

for ye are yet unspiritual. For while there is among you rivalry and strife, are ye not unspiritual, and walking after the manner of men?

For while one saith, I am of Paul, and another, I am of Apollos, are ye not [like common] men?

Know ye not, that ye are Gods temple, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a human tribunal; nay, I do not even judge myself;

for though I am conscious to myself of nothing wrong, yet not by this am I cleared of blame; but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

And these things, brethren, I have transferred in a figure to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us ye may learn not to go beyond what is written, that no one of you may pride himself in one against another.

For who maketh thee to differ from another? And what hast thou that thou didst not receive? But if thou didst receive it, why dost thou boast, as if thou hadst not received it?

I write not these things to shame you, but I am warning you as my beloved children.

For though ye have ten thousand teachers in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begot you through the gospel.

Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.

But I shall come to you shortly, if it be the Lords will, and 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.

It is everywhere reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the gentiles, that one should have his fathers wife.

And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, so that he that committed this deed might be separated from among you.

Your glorying is not good. Know ye not, that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

So then let us keep the feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

I wrote to you in that letter, not to keep company with fornicators;

certainly not meaning the fornicators of this world, or the covetous and extortioners, or idolaters; for to do this ye must go out of the world.

But this is what I wrote you, not to keep company with any one called a brother, if he be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one not even to eat.

For what have I to do with judging those who are without? Do not ye judge those who are within?

Doth any one of you, who hath a matter against another, dare to go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the holy?

Or do ye not know, that the holy will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge in causes of the least importance?

Know ye not, that we shall pass judgment upon angels? How much more, concerning affairs of this life?

I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you, not one that will be able to judge between his brethren?

Now therefore it is altogether an evil among you, that ye have suits against each other. Why do ye not rather submit to wrong? Why do ye not rather allow yourselves to be defrauded?

Know ye not, that wrongdoers shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

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

Meats are for the stomach, and the stomach for meats; but God will make an end of both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

Know ye not, that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid!

Know ye not, that he who is connected with a harlot is one body with her? "For the two," saith he, "shall become one flesh;"

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

Now as to the matters about which ye wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman;

The wife hath not the disposal of her own body, but her husband; and so also the husband hath not the disposal of his own body, but his wife.

Defraud not one another, except by agreement for a time, that ye may have a season for prayer; and be together again, that Satan may not tempt you through your incontinence.

But I say this by way of permission, not command.

But to those who are married it is my command, yet not mine, but the Lords: Let not the wife separate herself from her husband,

and if she have separated herself let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband; and let not the husband put away his wife.

But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she be satisfied to dwell with him, let him not put her away;

and if a wife hath an unbelieving husband, and he be satisfied to dwell with her, let her not put her husband away.

But if the unbelieving separateth himself, let him separate himself; a brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases. But God hath called you to be in peace.

Was any one called being circumcised, let him not become as if uncircumcised; hath any one been called in uncircumcision, let him not become circumcised.

Wast thou called being a slave, care not for it; but even if thou canst be made free, use it rather.

Ye were bought with a price; become not the slaves of men.

Art thou bound to a wife, seek not to be loosed from her; art thou loosed from a wife, do not seek for one.

and they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;

and they that use this world as not abusing it; for the outward condition of this world is passing away;

And this I say for your own profit; not to cast a noose over you, but with a view to what is becoming, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; and he that doth not give her in marriage doeth better.

But there is not in all men this knowledge; for some, with a conscience directed toward the idol even now, eat of it as a thing offered in sacrifice to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

But food will not recommend us to God; if we do not eat, we are not the worse; nor if we do eat, are we the better.

For if any one see thee, who hast knowledge, at table in an idols temple, will not the conscience of him that is weak be emboldened to eat the things offered to idols?

Wherefore, if food cause my brother to fall, I will eat no flesh for ever, lest I cause my brother to fall. Am I not free?

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

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

Have we not a right to eat and drink?

Have we not a right to carry about with us a sister as a wife, as well as the other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

Who ever serveth as a soldier at his own charges? Who planteth a vineyard without eating its fruit? Or who tendeth a flock and doth not eat of the milk of the flock?

Is it on mans authority that I am saying these things, or doth not the Law too say the same?

For it is written in the law of Moses: "Thou shalt not muzzle an ox while treading out grain." Is it for oxen that God careth?

If others possess this right in relation to you, do not we still more? But we have not used this right; but we submit to all things, that we may occasion no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

Do ye not know, that they who minister in the offerings of the temple live from the temple? that they who serve at the altar share with the altar?

For in preaching the gospel, I have nothing to glory in; for I am under a necessity to do so; yea, woe is to me, if I preach not the gospel!

What then is my reward? It is that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel free of charge, that I use not to the full my right as a preacher of the gospel.

and to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain 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 the Law, as without the Law, being not without a law before God, but under the law of Christ, that I might gain those without the Law;

Know ye not, that of those who run in the racecourse all run, but one receiveth the prize? Thus run, that ye may obtain.

I therefore so run, not as one uncertain; I so fight, not as one striking the air;

For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,

but with most of them God was not well pleased; for they were laid low in the wilderness.

Now these things were warnings for us, in order that we should not lust after evil things, as they lusted.

And do not ye become idolaters, as some of them did; as it is written: "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to sport."

And do not ye murmur, as some of them murmured, and perished by the Destroyer.

No temptation hath come upon you, but such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted beyond what ye are able to endure, but will with the temptation furnish also the way to escape, that ye may be able to endure it.

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

Look at Israel by natural descent. Have not those who eat of the sacrifices, communion with the altar?

Nay, but that what they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God; and I would not that ye should have communion with demons.

All things are lawful, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful, but all things are not edifying.

But if any one say to you, This hath been offered in sacrifice to an idol, do not eat of it, on account of him that showed you this, and from a regard to conscience;

conscience I mean, not thine own, but that of the other. For why is my liberty to be judged by another conscience [than my own]?

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

For if a woman is not veiled, let her also be shorn; but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be veiled.

For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man;