Most Popular Bible Verses in 1 Corinthians

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But I make known to you, brethren, the glad tidings which I announced to you, which also ye received, in which also ye stand,

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But this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit God's kingdom, nor does corruption inherit incorruptibility.

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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 delivered up, took bread,

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For when one says, I am of Paul, and another, I of Apollos, are ye not men?

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Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all fall asleep, but we shall all be changed,

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or does he say it altogether for our sakes? For for our sakes it has been written, that the plougher should plough in hope, and he that treads out corn, in hope of partaking of it.

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But concerning spiritual manifestations, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant.

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For also the body is not one member but many.

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

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

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Already indeed then it is altogether a fault in you that ye have suits between yourselves. Why do ye not rather suffer wrong? why are ye not rather defrauded?

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Let your women be silent in the assemblies, for it is not permitted to them to speak; but to be in subjection, as the law also says.

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

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For if any one see thee, who hast knowledge, sitting at table in an idol-house, shall not his conscience, he being weak, be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to the idol?

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that in everything ye have been enriched in him, in all word of doctrine, and all knowledge,

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But we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we may know the things which have been freely given to us of God:

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

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For if those that are dead are not raised, neither is Christ raised;

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Now if Christ is preached that he is raised from among the dead, how say some among you that there is not a resurrection of those that are dead?

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Now I praise you, that in all things ye are mindful of me; and that as I have directed you, ye keep the directions.

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And I, when I came to you, brethren, came not in excellency of word, or wisdom, announcing to you the testimony of God.

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But concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.

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(according as the testimony of the Christ has been confirmed in you,)

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But God has chosen the foolish things of the world, that he may put to shame the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world, that he may put to shame the strong things;

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Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman should pray to God uncovered?

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For it has been shewn to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of the house of Chloe, that there are strifes among you.

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But in prescribing to you on this which I now enter on, I do not praise, namely, that ye come together, not for the better, but for the worse.

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not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the avaricious and rapacious, or idolaters, since then ye should go out of the world.

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For as often as ye shall eat this bread, and drink the cup, ye announce the death of the Lord, until he come.

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According to the grace of God which has been given to me, as a wise architect, I have laid the foundation, but another builds upon it. But let each see how he builds upon it.

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So that whosoever shall eat the bread, or drink the cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty in respect of the body and of the blood of the Lord.

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

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Is the Christ divided? has Paul been crucified for you? or have ye been baptised unto the name of Paul?

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But ye do wrong, and defraud, and this your brethren.

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But if any one think to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor the assemblies of God.

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If the whole body were an eye, where the hearing? if all hearing, where the smelling?

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See Israel according to flesh: are not they who eat the sacrifices in communion with the altar?

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and the weak one, the brother for whose sake Christ died, will perish through thy knowledge.

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If others partake of this right over you, should not rather we? But we have not used this right, but we bear all things, that we may put no hindrance in the way of the glad tidings of the Christ.

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I thank God that I have baptised none of you, unless Crispus and Gaius,

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If the foot say, Because I am not a hand I am not of the body, is it on account of this not indeed of the body?

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Since otherwise, if thou blessest with the spirit, how shall he who fills the place of the simple Christian say Amen, at thy giving of thanks, since he does not know what thou sayest?

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Yes, I baptised also the house of Stephanas; for the rest I know not if I have baptised any other.

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Do ye not know that they who labour at sacred things eat of the offerings offered in the temple; they that attend at the altar partake with the altar?

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And if the ear say, Because I am not an eye I am not of the body, is it on account of this not indeed of the body?

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I speak as to intelligent persons: do ye judge what I say.

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Now, thus sinning against the brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.

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that no one may say that I have baptised unto my own name.

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But if all were one member, where the body?

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Already ye are filled; already ye have been enriched; ye have reigned without us; and I would that ye reigned, that we also might reign with you.

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So that neither the planter is anything, nor the waterer; but God the giver of the increase.

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Wherefore if meat be a fall-trap to my brother, I will eat no flesh for ever, that I may not be a fall-trap to my brother.

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But now the members are many, and the body one.

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So also the Lord has ordained to those that announce the glad tidings to live of the glad tidings.

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For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and set aside the understanding of the understanding ones.

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For I think that God has set us the apostles for the last, as appointed to death. For we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

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Has any one been called circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised: has any one been called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.

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The eye cannot say to the hand, I have not need of thee; or again, the head to the feet, I have not need of you.

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But I have used none of these things. Now I have not written these things that it should be thus in my case; for it were good for me rather to die than that any one should make vain my boast.

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But much rather, the members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary;

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What then do I say? that what is sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?

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and they that weep, as not weeping; and they that rejoice, as not rejoicing; and they that buy, as not possessing;

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Let each, wherein he is called, brethren, therein abide with God.

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but our comely parts have not need. But God has tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to the part that lacked;

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that there might be no division in the body, but that the members might have the same concern one for another.

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For thou indeed givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.

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nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor abusive persons, nor the rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

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For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with an administration.

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For the bondman that is called in the Lord is the Lord's freedman; in like manner also the freeman being called is Christ's bondman.

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And I became to the Jews as a Jew, in order that I might gain the Jews: to those under law, as under law, not being myself under law, in order that I might gain those under law:

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Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

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For each one in eating takes his own supper before others, and one is hungry and another drinks to excess.

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I think then that this is good, on account of the present necessity, that it is good for a man to remain so as he is.

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Art thou bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; art thou free from a wife? do not seek a wife.

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

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Now if any one build upon this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, grass, straw,

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to those without law, as without law, (not as without law to God, but as legitimately subject to Christ,) in order that I might gain those without law.

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and the ignoble things of the world, and the despised, has God chosen, and things that are not, that he may annul the things that are;

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Now I wish all men to be even as myself: but every one has his own gift of God: one man thus, and another thus.

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The salutation of me Paul with my own hand.

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The wife has not authority over her own body, but the husband: in like manner also the husband has not authority over his own body, but the wife.

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Have ye not then houses for eating and drinking? or do ye despise the assembly of God, and put to shame them who have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you? In this point I do not praise.

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but conscience, I mean, not thine own, but that of the other: for why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

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It is written in the law, By people of other tongues, and by strange lips, will I speak to this people; and neither thus will they hear me, saith the Lord.

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The assemblies of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla, with the assembly in their house, salute you much in the Lord.

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What is the reward then that I have? That in announcing the glad tidings I make the glad tidings costless to others, so as not to have made use, as belonging to me, of my right in announcing the glad tidings.

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the work of each shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire shall try the work of each what it is.

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Everything sold in the shambles eat, making no inquiry for conscience sake.

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But this I say, as consenting to, not as commanding it.

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and those parts of the body which we esteem to be the more void of honour, these we clothe with more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness;

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If the work of any one which he has built upon the foundation shall abide, he shall receive a reward.

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

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And ye are puffed up, and ye have not rather mourned, in order that he that has done this deed might be taken away out of the midst of you.

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But being judged, we are disciplined of the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

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to deliver, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ (ye and my spirit being gathered together, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ), him that has so wrought this:

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Ye know that when ye were of the nations ye were led away to dumb idols, in whatever way ye might be led.

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But if any one of the unbelievers invite you, and ye are minded to go, all that is set before you eat, making no inquiry for conscience sake.

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If therefore the whole assembly come together in one place, and all speak with tongues, and simple persons enter in, or unbelievers, will not they say ye are mad?

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Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all in possession of miraculous powers?

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But if any one say to you, This is offered to holy purposes, do not eat, for his sake that pointed it out, and conscience sake;

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But these things happened as types of us, that we should not be lusters after evil things, as they also lusted.

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For I, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged as present,

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If I am not an apostle to others, yet at any rate I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.

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If any one think he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know it.

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For in the law of Moses it is written, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that is treading out corn. Is God occupied about the oxen,

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The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

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If the work of any one shall be consumed, he shall suffer loss, but he shall be saved, but so as through the fire.

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Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

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For and if indeed there are those called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are gods many, and lords many,)

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But some have been puffed up, as if I were not coming to you;

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and to a different one faith, in the power of the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healing in the power of the same Spirit;

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But if there be a revelation to another sitting there, let the first be silent.

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and all ate the same spiritual food,

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yet God was not pleased with the most of them, for they were strewed in the desert.

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Or I alone and Barnabas, have we not a right not to work?

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But if all prophesy, and some unbeliever or simple person come in, he is convicted of all, he is judged of all;

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Who ever carries on war at his own charges? who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? or who herds a flock and does not eat of the milk of the flock?

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And I do all things for the sake of the glad tidings, that I may be fellow-partaker with them.

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If any one speak with a tongue, let it be two, or at the most three, and separately, and let one interpret;

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but in the assembly I desire to speak five words with my understanding, that I may instruct others also, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue.

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My defence to those who examine me is this:

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For if ye should have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the glad tidings.

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But knowledge is not in all: but some, with conscience of the idol, until now eat as of a thing sacrificed to idols; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

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All the brethren salute you. Salute one another with a holy kiss.

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But meat does not commend us to God; neither if we should not eat do we come short; nor if we should eat have we an advantage.

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And again, The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise that they are vain.

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but I will come quickly to you, if the Lord will; and I will know, not the word of those that are puffed up, but the power.

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Do I speak these things as a man, or does not the law also say these things?

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Have we not a right to eat and to drink?

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but if there be no interpreter, let him be silent in the assembly, and let him speak to himself and to God.

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On this account many among you are weak and infirm, and a good many are fallen asleep.

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Do ye not know that we shall judge angels? and not then matters of this life?

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in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

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But some one will say, How are the dead raised? and with what body do they come?

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and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank of a spiritual rock which followed them: (now the rock was the Christ;)

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Since what shall the baptised for the dead do if those that are dead rise not at all? why also are they baptised for them?

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Daily I die, by your boasting which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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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.

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I became to the weak, as weak, in order that I might gain the weak. To all I have become all things, in order that at all events I might save some.

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But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruptibility, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the word written: Death has been swallowed up in victory.

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by which also ye are saved, (if ye hold fast the word which I announced to you as the glad tidings,) unless indeed ye have believed in vain.

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

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For if a woman be not covered, let her hair also be cut off. But if it be shameful to a woman to have her hair cut off or to be shaved, let her be covered.

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

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Every man praying or prophesying, having anything on his head, puts his head to shame.

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But for me it is the very smallest matter that I be examined of you or of man's day. Nor do I even examine myself.

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concerning then the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God save one.

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If then ye have judgments as to things of this life, set those to judge who are little esteemed in the assembly.

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Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things coming, all are yours;

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But all these things operates the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each in particular according as he pleases.

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Am I not free? am I not an apostle? have I not seen Jesus our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?

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Who then is Apollos, and who Paul? Ministering servants, through whom ye have believed, and as the Lord has given to each.

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Now these things, brethren, I have transferred, in their application, to myself and Apollos, for your sakes, that ye may learn in us the lesson of not letting your thoughts go above what is written, that ye may not be puffed up one for such a one against another.

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I speak to you to put you to shame. Thus there is not a wise person among you, not even one, who shall be able to decide between his brethren!

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But brother prosecutes his suit with brother, and that before unbelievers.

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to deliver him, I say, being such, to Satan for destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

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For he has put all things in subjection under his feet. But when he says that all things are put in subjection, it is evident that it is except him who put all things in subjection to him.

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He that speaks with a tongue edifies himself; but he that prophesies edifies the assembly.

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Where is the wise? where scribe? where disputer of this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

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In like manner also the cup, after having supped, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do, as often as ye shall drink it, in remembrance of me.

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does not behave in an unseemly manner, does not seek what is its own, is not quickly provoked, does not impute evil,

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But that what the nations sacrifice they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. Now I do not wish you to be in communion with demons.

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Do ye not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then, taking the members of the Christ, make them members of a harlot? Far be the thought.

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For I am the least of the apostles, who am not fit to be called apostle, because I have persecuted the assembly of God.

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If, to speak after the manner of man, I have fought with beasts in Ephesus, what is the profit to me if those that are dead do not rise? let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die.

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But when all things shall have been brought into subjection to him, then the Son also himself shall be placed in subjection to him who put all things in subjection to him, that God may be all in all.)

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What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, but I will pray also with the understanding; I will sing with the spirit, but I will sing also with the understanding.

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For if I pray with a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.

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the secrets of his heart are manifested; and thus, falling upon his face, he will do homage to God, reporting that God is indeed amongst you.

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But as to the rest, I say, not the Lord, If any brother have an unbelieving wife, and she consent to dwell with him, let him not leave her.

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But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered puts her own head to shame; for it is one and the same as a shaved woman.

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Do ye not then know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of the smallest judgments?

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What will ye? that I come to you with a rod; or in love, and in a spirit of meekness?

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For he that speaks with a tongue does not speak to men but to God: for no one hears; but in spirit he speaks mysteries.

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Now I desire that ye should all speak with tongues, but rather that ye should prophesy. But greater is he that prophesies than he that speaks with tongues, unless he interpret, that the assembly may receive edification.

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have we not a right to take round a sister as wife, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

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But concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord; but I give my opinion, as having received mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

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However, as the Lord has divided to each, as God has called each, so let him walk; and thus I ordain in all the assemblies.

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For this corruptible must needs put on incorruptibility, and this mortal put on immortality.

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Then he appeared to James; then to all the apostles;

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Does not even nature itself teach you, that man, if he have long hair, it is a dishonour to him?

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It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body: if there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual one.

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But I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruits of Achaia, and they have devoted themselves to the saints for service,)

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Let no one deceive himself: if any one thinks himself to be wise among you in this world, let him become foolish, that he may be wise.

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Even lifeless things giving a sound, whether pipe or harp, if they give not distinction to the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?

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And now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I shall speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophecy, or in teaching?

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If any one thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him recognise the things that I write to you, that it is the Lord's commandment.

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

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So that, brethren, desire to prophesy, and do not forbid the speaking with tongues.

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one the sun's glory, and another the moon's glory, and another the stars' glory; for star differs from star in glory.

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Wherefore let him that speaks with a tongue pray that he may interpret.

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But if any one think that he behaves unseemly to his virginity, if he be beyond the flower of his age, and so it must be, let him do what he will, he does not sin: let them marry.

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But if there is not a resurrection of those that are dead, neither is Christ raised:

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For also, if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for war?

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Why do we also endanger ourselves every hour?

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If therefore I do not know the power of the sound, I shall be to him that speaks a barbarian, and he that speaks a barbarian for me.

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Did the word of God go out from you, or did it come to you only?

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But I will come to you when I shall have gone through Macedonia; for I do go through Macedonia.

407

And we are found also false witnesses of God; for we have witnessed concerning God that he raised the Christ, whom he has not raised if indeed those that are dead are not raised.

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But I remain in Ephesus until Pentecost.

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And there are heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies: but different is the glory of the heavenly, different that of the earthly:

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Every flesh is not the same flesh, but one is of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fishes.

411

Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear; for he works the work of the Lord, even as I.

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There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of undistinguishable sound.

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If any one be hungry, let him eat at home, that ye may not come together for judgment. But the other things, whenever I come, I will set in order.

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So that, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, wait for one another.

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Thus also ye with the tongue, unless ye give a distinct speech, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye will be speaking to the air.

420

Now concerning the brother Apollos, I begged him much that he would go to you with the brethren; but it was not at all his will to go now; but he will come when he shall have good opportunity.

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that ye should also be subject to such, and to every one joined in the work and labouring.

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And when I am arrived, whomsoever ye shall approve, these I will send with letters to carry your bounty to Jerusalem:

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But I say this for your own profit; not that I may set a snare before you, but for what is seemly, and waiting on the Lord without distraction.

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It is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.

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For I will not see you now in passing, for I hope to remain a certain time with you, if the Lord permit.

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and if it be suitable that I also should go, they shall go with me.

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But perhaps I will stay with you, or even winter with you, that ye may set me forward wheresoever I may go.

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But if any be ignorant, let him be ignorant.

430

So that he that marries himself does well; and he that does not marry does better.

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and God gives to it a body as he has pleased, and to each of the seeds its own body.

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But she is happier if she so remain, according to my judgment; but I think that I also have God's Spirit.

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And what thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be, but a bare grain: it may be of wheat, or some one of the rest:

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Let not therefore any one despise him; but set him forward in peace, that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brethren.

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Such as he made of dust, such also those made of dust; and such as the heavenly one, such also the heavenly ones.

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But he who stands firm in his heart, having no need, but has authority over his own will, and has judged this in his heart to keep his own virginity, he does well.