Most Popular Bible Verses in 1 Corinthians

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Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand,

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Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

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For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which He was betrayed took bread;

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For when one says, “I am of Paul,” and another, “I am of Apollos,” are you not mere men?

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Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,

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Or is He speaking altogether for our sake? Yes, for our sake it was written, because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the crops.

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For the body is not one member, but many.

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For I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea;

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

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Actually, then, it is already a defeat for you, that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

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The women are to keep silent in the churches; for they are not permitted to speak, but are to subject themselves, just as the Law also says.

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All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.

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For if someone sees you, who have knowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be strengthened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

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that in everything you were enriched in Him, in all speech and all knowledge,

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Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God,

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Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I directed the churches of Galatia, so do you also.

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For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised;

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Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

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Now I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold firmly to the traditions, just as I delivered them to you.

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And when I came to you, brethren, I did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

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Now concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge makes arrogant, but love edifies.

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even as the testimony concerning Christ was confirmed in you,

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but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong,

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Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?

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For I have been informed concerning you, my brethren, by Chloe’s people, that there are quarrels among you.

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But in giving this instruction, I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.

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Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature; a wisdom, however, not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away;

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I did not at all mean with the immoral people of this world, or with the covetous and swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the world.

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For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.

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According to the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each man must be careful how he builds on it.

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Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.

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I rejoice over the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus, because they have supplied what was lacking on your part.

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Has Christ been divided? Paul was not crucified for you, was he? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

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On the contrary, you yourselves wrong and defraud. You do this even to your brethren.

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Now I mean this, that each one of you is saying, “I am of Paul,” and “I of Apollos,” and “I of Cephas,” and “I of Christ.”

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But if one is inclined to be contentious, we have no other practice, nor have the churches of God.

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If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the sense of smell be?

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Look at the nation Israel; are not those who eat the sacrifices sharers in the altar?

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For through your knowledge he who is weak is ruined, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

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If others share the right over you, do we not more? Nevertheless, we did not use this right, but we endure all things so that we will cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

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I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius,

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If the foot says, “Because I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body.

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Otherwise if you bless in the spirit only, how will the one who fills the place of the ungifted say the “Amen” at your giving of thanks, since he does not know what you are saying?

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Now I did baptize also the household of Stephanas; beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized any other.

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Do you not know that those who perform sacred services eat the food of the temple, and those who attend regularly to the altar have their share from the altar?

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And if the ear says, “Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body.

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I speak as to wise men; you judge what I say.

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And so, by sinning against the brethren and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

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so that no one would say you were baptized in my name.

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If they were all one member, where would the body be?

128

Now he who plants and he who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

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For they have refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore acknowledge such men.

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You are already filled, you have already become rich, you have become kings without us; and indeed, I wish that you had become kings so that we also might reign with you.

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So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth.

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Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.

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So also the Lord directed those who proclaim the gospel to get their living from the gospel.

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For it is written,
I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
And the cleverness of the clever I will set aside.”

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For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as men condemned to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

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Was any man called when he was already circumcised? He is not to become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? He is not to be circumcised.

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And 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.”

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But I have used none of these things. And I am not writing these things so that it will be done so in my case; for it would be better for me to die than have any man make my boast an empty one.

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On the contrary, it is much truer that the members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary;

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What do I mean then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

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and those who weep, as though they did not weep; and those who rejoice, as though they did not rejoice; and those who buy, as though they did not possess;

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Brethren, each one is to remain with God in that condition in which he was called.

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For there must also be factions among you, so that those who are approved may become evident among you.

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whereas our more presentable members have no need of it. But God has so composed the body, giving more abundant honor to that member which lacked,

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so that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.

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For you are giving thanks well enough, but the other person is not edified.

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nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

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For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if against my will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

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For he who was called in the Lord while a slave, is the Lord’s freedman; likewise he who was called while free, is Christ’s slave.

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For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that divisions exist among you; and in part I believe it.

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and those who use the world, as though they did not make full use of it; for the form of this world is passing away.

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To the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might win Jews; to those who are under the Law, as under the Law though not being myself under the Law, so that I might win those who are under the Law;

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Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than He, are we?

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for in your eating each one takes his own supper first; and one is hungry and another is drunk.

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I think then that this is good in view of the present distress, that it is good for a man to remain as he is.

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Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you released from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

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Therefore when you meet together, it is not to eat the Lord’s Supper,

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Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,

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to those who are without law, as without law, though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, so that I might win those who are without law.

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All do not have gifts of healings, do they? All do not speak with tongues, do they? All do not interpret, do they?

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and the base things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are,

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Yet I wish that all men were even as I myself am. However, each man has his own gift from God, one in this manner, and another in that.

183

The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

184

What! Do you not have houses in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and shame those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I will not praise you.

185

To this present hour we are both hungry and thirsty, and are poorly clothed, and are roughly treated, and are homeless;

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I mean not your own conscience, but the other man’s; for why is my freedom judged by another’s conscience?

187

In the Law it is written, “By men of strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, and even so they will not listen to Me,” says the Lord.

188

The churches of Asia greet you. Aquila and Prisca greet you heartily in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.

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each man’s work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man’s work.

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Eat anything that is sold in the meat market without asking questions for conscience’ sake;

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

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and those members of the body which we deem less honorable, on these we bestow more abundant honor, and our less presentable members become much more presentable,

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If any man’s work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward.

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So then tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers; but prophecy is for a sign, not to unbelievers but to those who believe.

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You have become arrogant and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst.

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But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord so that we will not be condemned along with the world.

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In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled, and I with you in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

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You know that when you were pagans, you were led astray to the mute idols, however you were led.

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If one of the unbelievers invites you and you want to go, eat anything that is set before you without asking questions for conscience’ sake.

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Therefore if the whole church assembles together and all speak in tongues, and ungifted men or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are mad?

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All are not apostles, are they? All are not prophets, are they? All are not teachers, are they? All are not workers of miracles, are they?

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But if anyone says to you, “This is meat sacrificed to idols,” do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for conscience’ sake;

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Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as they also craved.

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For I, on my part, though absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged him who has so committed this, as though I were present.

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

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If anyone supposes that he knows anything, he has not yet known as he ought to know;

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For it is written in the Law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing.” God is not concerned about oxen, is He?

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The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you.

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If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.

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For even if there are so-called gods whether in heaven or on earth, as indeed there are many gods and many lords,

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Now some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.

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But if a revelation is made to another who is seated, the first one must keep silent.

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and all ate the same spiritual food;

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

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Or do only Barnabas and I not have a right to refrain from working?

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But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or an ungifted man enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all;

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Who at any time serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Or who tends a flock and does not use the milk of the flock?

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Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air;

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I do all things for the sake of the gospel, so that I may become a fellow partaker of it.

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If anyone speaks in a tongue, it should be by two or at the most three, and each in turn, and one must interpret;

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however, in the church I desire to speak five words with my mind so that I may instruct others also, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue.

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My defense to those who examine me is this:

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For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.

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Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, “The two shall become one flesh.”

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However not all men have this knowledge; but some, being accustomed to the idol until now, eat food as if it were sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.

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All the brethren greet you. Greet one another with a holy kiss.

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But food will not commend us to God; we are neither the worse if we do not eat, nor the better if we do eat.

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and again, “The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise, that they are useless.”

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If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are.

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But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I shall find out, not the words of those who are arrogant but their power.

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I am not speaking these things according to human judgment, am I? Or does not the Law also say these things?

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Do we not have a right to eat and drink?

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but if there is no interpreter, he must keep silent in the church; and let him speak to himself and to God.

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For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all may be exhorted;

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Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more matters of this life?

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For he who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself if he does not judge the body rightly.

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in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

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But someone will say, “How are the dead raised? And with what kind of body do they come?”

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and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ.

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Otherwise, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why then are they baptized for them?

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I affirm, brethren, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

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To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak; I have become all things to all men, so that I may by all means save some.

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But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, “Death is swallowed up in victory.

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For I am conscious of nothing against myself, yet I am not by this acquitted; but the one who examines me is the Lord.

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by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.

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Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough?

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For if a woman does not cover her head, let her also have her hair cut off; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, let her cover her head.

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and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

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Every man who has something on his head while praying or prophesying disgraces his head.

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But to me it is a very small thing that I may be examined by you, or by any human court; in fact, I do not even examine myself.

300

Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that there is no such thing as an idol in the world, and that there is no God but one.

301

So if you have law courts dealing with matters of this life, do you appoint them as judges who are of no account in the church?

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whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come; all things belong to you,

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But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he is an immoral person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler—not even to eat with such a one.

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But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills.

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

317

What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave opportunity to each one.

318

Now these things, brethren, I have figuratively applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that in us you may learn not to exceed what is written, so that no one of you will become arrogant in behalf of one against the other.

319

I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not among you one wise man who will be able to decide between his brethren,

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but brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers?

322

I have decided to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

324

But I want you to be free from concern. One who is unmarried is concerned about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

328

For He has put all things in subjection under His feet. But when He says, “All things are put in subjection,” it is evident that He is excepted who put all things in subjection to Him.

329

One who speaks in a tongue edifies himself; but one who prophesies edifies the church.

330

Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

332

In the same way He took the cup also after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”

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does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,

337

No, but I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not want you to become sharers in demons.

340

Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

341

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

342

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

343

If from human motives I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

345

When all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subjected to the One who subjected all things to Him, so that God may be all in all.

346

What is the outcome then? I will pray with the spirit and I will pray with the mind also; I will sing with the spirit and I will sing with the mind also.

347

For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful.

353

and to another the effecting of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another the distinguishing of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues.

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the secrets of his heart are disclosed; and so he will fall on his face and worship God, declaring that God is certainly among you.

355

But to the rest I say, not the Lord, that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he must not divorce her.

356

But every woman who has her head uncovered while praying or prophesying disgraces her head, for she is one and the same as the woman whose head is shaved.

357

Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? If the world is judged by you, are you not competent to constitute the smallest law courts?

361

What do you desire? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love and a spirit of gentleness?

362

For one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God; for no one understands, but in his spirit he speaks mysteries.

364

After that He appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep;

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Now I wish that you all spoke in tongues, but even more that you would prophesy; and greater is one who prophesies than one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, so that the church may receive edifying.

368

Do we not have a right to take along a believing wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?

369

Now concerning virgins I have no command of the Lord, but I give an opinion as one who by the mercy of the Lord is trustworthy.

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Only, as the Lord has assigned to each one, as God has called each, in this manner let him walk. And so I direct in all the churches.

374

For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.

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the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had understood it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;

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then He appeared to James, then to all the apostles;

377

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

378

it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

380

Now I urge you, brethren (you know the household of Stephanas, that they were the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves for ministry to the saints),

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

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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you thinks that he is wise in this age, he must become foolish, so that he may become wise.

387

Yet even lifeless things, either flute or harp, in producing a sound, if they do not produce a distinction in the tones, how will it be known what is played on the flute or on the harp?

389

But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking in tongues, what will I profit you unless I speak to you either by way of revelation or of knowledge or of prophecy or of teaching?

392

If anyone thinks he is a prophet or spiritual, let him recognize that the things which I write to you are the Lord’s commandment.

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

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Become sober-minded as you ought, and stop sinning; for some have no knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.

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Therefore, my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak in tongues.

397

There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.

398

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

399

But if any man thinks that he is acting unbecomingly toward his virgin daughter, if she is past her youth, and if it must be so, let him do what he wishes, he does not sin; let her marry.

400

But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised;

402

For if the bugle produces an indistinct sound, who will prepare himself for battle?

403

Why are we also in danger every hour?

404

If then I do not know the meaning of the language, I will be to the one who speaks a barbarian, and the one who speaks will be a barbarian to me.

405

Was it from you that the word of God first went forth? Or has it come to you only?

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But I will come to you after I go through Macedonia, for I am going through Macedonia;

407

Moreover we are even found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified against God that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised.

408

But I will remain in Ephesus until Pentecost;

409

There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is one, and the glory of the earthly is another.

410

All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fish.

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Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without cause to be afraid, for he is doing the Lord’s work, as I also am.

413

There are, perhaps, a great many kinds of languages in the world, and no kind is without meaning.

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If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so that you will not come together for judgment. The remaining matters I will arrange when I come.

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So then, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

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So also you, unless you utter by the tongue speech that is clear, how will it be known what is spoken? For you will be speaking into the air.

420

But concerning Apollos our brother, I encouraged him greatly to come to you with the brethren; and it was not at all his desire to come now, but he will come when he has opportunity.

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that you also be in subjection to such men and to everyone who helps in the work and labors.

422

When I arrive, whomever you may approve, I will send them with letters to carry your gift to Jerusalem;

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This I say for your own benefit; not to put a restraint upon you, but to promote what is appropriate and to secure undistracted devotion to the Lord.

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it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;

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For I do not wish to see you now just in passing; for I hope to remain with you for some time, if the Lord permits.

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and if it is fitting for me to go also, they will go with me.

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and perhaps I will stay with you, or even spend the winter, so that you may send me on my way wherever I may go.

429

But if anyone does not recognize this, he is not recognized.

430

So then both he who gives his own virgin daughter in marriage does well, and he who does not give her in marriage will do better.

432

But God gives it a body just as He wished, and to each of the seeds a body of its own.

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But in my opinion she is happier if she remains as she is; and I think that I also have the Spirit of God.

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and that which you sow, you do not sow the body which is to be, but a bare grain, perhaps of wheat or of something else.

435

So let no one despise him. But send him on his way in peace, so that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brethren.

436

As is the earthy, so also are those who are earthy; and as is the heavenly, so also are those who are heavenly.

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But he who stands firm in his heart, being under no constraint, but has authority over his own will, and has decided this in his own heart, to keep his own virgin daughter, he will do well.