You know that wicked people will not inherit the kingdom of God, don't you? Stop deceiving yourselves! Sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, homosexuals,

For I passed on to you the most important points that I received: The Messiah died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

Love is always patient; love is always kind; love is never envious or arrogant with pride. Nor is she conceited,

You know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God, don't you? You do not belong to yourselves,

No temptation has overtaken you that is unusual for human beings. But God is faithful, and he will not allow you to be tempted beyond your strength. Instead, along with the temptation he will also provide a way out, so that you may be able to endure it.

Now I'm making known to you, brothers, the gospel that I proclaimed to you, which you accepted, on which you have taken your stand,

If I speak in the languages of humans and angels but have no love, I have become a reverberating gong or a clashing cymbal.

For the message about the cross is nonsense to those who are being destroyed, but it is God's power to us who are being saved.

For just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, form a single body, so it is with the Messiah.

Brothers, this is what I mean: Mortal bodies cannot inherit the kingdom of God, and what decays cannot inherit what does not decay.

For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you how the Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took a loaf of bread,

Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.

For when one person says, "I follow Paul," and another person says, "I follow Apollos," you're following your own human nature, aren't you?

It was in weakness, fear, and great trembling that I came to you.

You know that you are God's sanctuary and that God's Spirit lives in you, don't you?

For by one Spirit all of us Jews and Greeks, slaves and free were baptized into one body and were all privileged to drink from one Spirit.

But as it is written, "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined the things that God has prepared for those who love him."

Let me tell you a secret. Not all of us will die, but all of us will be changed

I say to those who are unmarried, especially to widows: It is good for them to remain like me.

Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit,

A person who isn't spiritual doesn't accept the things of God's Spirit, for they are nonsense to him. He can't understand them because they are spiritually evaluated.

Brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, I urge all of you to be in agreement and not to have divisions among you, so that you may be perfectly united in your understanding and opinions.

Isn't he really speaking for our benefit? Yes, this was written for our benefit, because the one who plows should plow in hope, and the one who threshes should thresh in hope of sharing in the crop.

For as woman came from man, so man comes through woman. But everything comes from God.

You know that in a race all the runners run but only one wins the prize, don't you? You must run in such a way that you may be victorious.

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I don't want you to be ignorant.

It is because of God that you are in union with the Messiah Jesus, who for us has become wisdom from God, as well as our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.

But you must see to it that this right of yours does not become a stumbling block for those who are weak.

For the body does not consist of only one part, but of many.

To: God's church in Corinth, to those who have been sanctified by the Messiah Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah their Lord and ours.

But at this moment the Messiah stands risen from the dead, the first one offered in the harvest of those who have died.

Now about what you asked: "Is it advisable for a man not to marry?"

Therefore, my dear brothers, be steadfast, unmovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord, because you know that the work that you do for the Lord isn't wasted.

Now I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of the fact that all of our ancestors who left Egypt were under the cloud. They all went through the sea,

Right now three things remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.

yet for us there is only one God, the Father, from whom everything came into being and for whom we live. And there is only one Lord, Jesus the Messiah, through whom everything came into being and through whom we live.

Now I want you to realize that the Messiah is the head of every man, and man is the head of the woman, and God is the head of the Messiah.

So let's keep celebrating the festival, neither with old yeast nor with yeast that is evil and wicked, but with yeast-free bread that is both sincere and true.

The very fact that you have lawsuits among yourselves is already a defeat for you. Why not rather just accept the wrong? Why not rather be cheated?

Now we see only an indistinct image in a mirror, but then we will be face to face. Now what I know is incomplete, but then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.

As in all the churches of the saints, the women must keep silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak out, but must place themselves in submission, as the oral law also says.

Imitate me, as I do the Messiah.

After all, no one can lay any other foundation than the one that is already laid, and that is Jesus the Messiah.

But God has revealed those things to us by his Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the deep things of God.

To each person has been given the ability to manifest the Spirit for the common good.

Keep on running away from sexual immorality. Any other sin that a person commits is outside his body, but the person who sins sexually sins against his own body.

Love never fails. Now if there are prophecies, they will be done away with. If there are languages, they will cease. If there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

Although I am free from everyone's expectations, I have made myself a servant to all of them to win more people.

Get rid of the old yeast so that you may be a new batch of dough, since you are to be free from yeast. For the Messiah, our Passover, has been sacrificed.

The cup of blessing that we bless is our fellowship in the blood of the Messiah, isn't it? The bread that we break is our fellowship in the body of the Messiah, isn't it?

Brothers, I couldn't talk to you as spiritual people but as worldly people, as mere infants in the Messiah.

If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?

However, if they cannot control themselves, they should get married, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

Everything is permissible for me, but not everything is helpful. Everything is permissible for me, but I will not allow anything to control me.

For if anyone with a weak conscience sees you, who know better, eating in an idol's temple, he will be encouraged to eat what has been offered to idols, won't he?

For by him you have become rich in every way in speech and knowledge of every kind

For as in Adam all die, so also in the Messiah will all be made alive.

It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, and of a kind that is not found even among the gentiles. A man is actually living with his father's wife!

Think of us as servants of the Messiah and as servant managers entrusted with God's secrets.

Now you are the Messiah's body and individual parts of it.

Now, we have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who comes from God, so that we can understand the things that were freely given to us by God.

for God is not a God of disorder but of peace.

Now concerning the collection for the saints, you should follow the directions I gave to the churches in Galatia.

This, indeed, is what is written: "The first man, Adam, became a living being." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

From: Paul, called to be an apostle of the Messiah Jesus by the will of God, and from our brother Sosthenes.

For if the dead are not raised, then the Messiah has not been raised,

Keep on pursuing love, and keep on desiring spiritual gifts, especially the ability to prophesy.

God has appointed in the church first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then those who perform miracles, those who have gifts of healing, those who help others, administrators, and those who speak various kinds of languages.

Then the end will come, when after he has done away with every ruler and every authority and power, the Messiah hands over the kingdom to God the Father.

Now if we preach that the Messiah has been raised from the dead, how can some of you keep claiming there is no resurrection of the dead?

That is what some of you were! But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus the Messiah and by the Spirit of our God.

I praise you for remembering everything I told you and for holding to the traditions that I passed on to you.

When I came to you, brothers, I didn't come and tell you about God's secret with rhetorical language or wisdom.

Now concerning food offered to idols: We know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

while our testimony about the Messiah has been confirmed among you.

After the Sabbath ends, each of you should set aside and save something from your surplus in proportion to what you have, so that no collections will have to be made when I arrive.

But God chose what is nonsense in the world to make the wise feel ashamed. God chose what is weak in the world to make the strong feel ashamed.

He will keep you strong until the end, so that you will be blameless on the Day of our Lord Jesus the Messiah.

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not know God, God was pleased to save those who believe through the nonsense of our preaching.

Brothers, think about your own calling. Not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.

Stop being deceived: "Wicked friends lead to evil ends."

Decide for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?

Remain alert. Keep standing firm in your faith. Keep on being courageous and strong.

What, then, does this mean, brothers? When you gather, everyone has a psalm, teaching, revelation, foreign language, or interpretation. Everything must be done for upbuilding.

My brothers, some members of Chloe's family have made it clear to me that there are quarrels among you.

Therefore, whoever thinks he is standing securely should watch out so he doesn't fall.

For this reason I want you to be aware that no one who is speaking by God's Spirit can say, "Jesus is cursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Holy Spirit.

Now I am not praising you in giving you the following instructions. When you gather, it is not for the better but for the worse.

When one of you has a complaint against another, does he dare to take the matter before those who are unrighteous and not before the saints?

However, when we are among mature people, we do speak a message of wisdom, but not the wisdom of this world or of the rulers of this world, who are passing off the scene.

not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, greedy, robbers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.

These things happened to them to serve as an example, and they were written down as a warning for us in whom the culmination of the ages has been attained.

Therefore, stop judging prematurely, before the Lord comes, for he will bring to light what is now hidden in darkness and reveal the motives of our hearts. Then each person will receive his praise from God.

For as often as you eat this bread and drink from this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.

because you were bought for a price. Therefore, glorify God with your bodies.

As an expert builder using the grace that God gave me, I laid the foundation, and someone else is building on it. But each person must be careful how he builds on it.

For the Messiah did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, not with eloquent wisdom, so the cross of the Messiah won't be emptied of its power.

I wrote to you in my letter to stop associating with people who are sexually immoral

Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks from the cup in an unworthy manner will be held responsible for the Lord's body and blood.

For while I was with you I resolved to know nothing except Jesus the Messiah, and him crucified.

We don't speak about these things with words taught us by human wisdom, but with words taught by the Spirit, as we explain spiritual things to spiritual people.

I am glad that Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus came here, because what was lacking they have supplied through you.

nor that hair is a woman's glory, since hair is given as a substitute for coverings.

Is the Messiah divided? Paul wasn't crucified for you, was he? You weren't baptized in Paul's name, were you?

gave thanks for it, and broke it in pieces, saying, "This is my body that is for you. Keep doing this in memory of me."

To married people I give this command (not really I, but the Lord): A wife must not leave her husband.

Instead, you yourselves practice doing wrong and cheating others, and brothers at that!

This is what I mean: Each of you is saying, "I belong to Paul," or "I belong to Apollos," or "I belong to Cephas," or "I belong to the Messiah."

But if anyone wants to argue about this, we do not have any custom like this, nor do any of God's churches.

But if she does leave him, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. Likewise, a husband must not abandon his wife.

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

Look at the Israelis from a human point of view. Those who eat the sacrifices share in what is on the altar, don't they?

Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body, because all of us eat from the same loaf.

In that case, the weak brother for whom the Messiah died is ruined by your knowledge.

For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified because of her husband. Otherwise, your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

If others enjoy this right over you, don't we have a stronger claim? But we did not use this right. On the contrary, we tolerate everything in order not to put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of the Messiah.

I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius,

If the foot says, "Since I'm not a hand, I'm not part of the body," that does not make it any less a part of the body, does it?

Otherwise, if you say a blessing with your spirit, how can an otherwise uneducated person say "Amen" to your thanksgiving, since he does not know what you're saying?

(Oh yes, I also baptized the family of Stephanas. Beyond that, I'm not sure whether I baptized anyone else.)

You know that those who work in the Temple get their food from the Temple and that those who serve at the altar get their share of its offerings, don't you?

And if the ear says, "Since I'm not an eye, I'm not part of the body," that does not make it any less a part of the body, does it?

I am talking to sensible people. Apply what I am saying to yourselves.

And if a woman has a husband who is an unbeliever and he is willing to live with her, she must not abandon him.

When you sin against your brothers in this way and wound their weak consciences, you are sinning against the Messiah.

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

Now if all of it were one part, there wouldn't be a body, would there?

The one who plants and the one who waters have the same goal, and each will receive a reward for his own action.

Jews ask for signs, and Greeks look for wisdom,

They refreshed my spirit and yours, too. Therefore, appreciate men like that.

But now God has arranged the parts, every one of them, in the body according to his plan.

You already have all you want! You have already become rich! You have become kings without us! I wish you really were kings so that we could be kings with you!

So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is significant, but God, who keeps everything growing, is the one who matters.

Therefore, if food that I eat causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, in order to keep my brother from stumbling.

So there are many parts, but one body.

In the same way, the Lord has ordered that those who proclaim the gospel should make their living from the gospel.

God will judge outsiders. "Expel that wicked man."

For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will reject."

so that your faith would not be based on human wisdom but on God's power.

When slandered, we answer with kind words. Even now we have become the filth of the world, the scum of the universe.

For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display in last place, like men condemned to death. We have become a spectacle for the world, for angels, and for people to stare at.

Was anyone circumcised when he was called? He should not try to change that. Was anyone uncircumcised when he was called? He should not get circumcised.

The eye cannot say to the hand, "I don't need you," or the head to the feet, "I don't need you."

Wife, you might be able to save your husband. Husband, you might be able to save your wife.

But I have not used any of these rights, and I'm not writing this so that they may be applied in my case. I would rather die than let anyone deprive me of my reason for boasting.

This is what I mean, brothers: The time is short. From now on, those who have wives should live as though they had none,

After all, is it my business to judge outsiders? You are to judge those who are in the community, aren't you?

Were you a slave when you were called? Do not let that bother you. Of course, if you have a chance to become free, take advantage of the opportunity.

On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are in fact indispensable,

Am I suggesting that an offering made to idols means anything, or that an idol itself means anything?

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

and those who mourn as though they did not mourn, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they did not own a thing,

Brothers, everyone should stay in the same condition in which he was called by God.

I thank God that I speak in foreign languages more than all of you.

We are fools for the Messiah's sake, but you are wise in the Messiah. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are dishonored.

Of course, there must be factions among you to show which of you are genuine!

However, our attractive parts don't need this. But God has put the body together and has given special honor to the parts that lack it,

so that there might be no disharmony in the body, but that its parts should have the same concern for each other.

It's good for you to give thanks, but it does not build up the other person.

thieves, greedy people, drunks, slanderers, and robbers will not inherit the kingdom of God.

For if I preach voluntarily, I get a reward, but if I am unwilling to do it, I am still entrusted with that obligation.

Yes, even those who have died believing in the Messiah are lost.

For the slave who has been called to belong to the Lord is the Lord's free person. In the same way, the free person who has been called is the Messiah's slave.

For in the first place, I hear that when you gather as a church there are divisions among you, and I partly believe it.

You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot dine with the Lord and dine with demons,

and those who use the things in the world as though they were not dependent on them. For the world in its present form is passing away.

To the Jews I became like a Jew in order to win Jews. To those under the Law I became like a man under the Law, in order to win those under the Law (although I myself am not under the Law).

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but obeying God's commandments is everything.

Everyone should stay in the same condition in which he was called.

or you'll provoke the Lord to jealousy, won't you? Are we stronger than he is?

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

In view of the present crisis, I think it is prudent for a man to stay as he is.

Have you become committed to a wife? Stop trying to get released from your commitment. Have you been freed from your commitment to a wife? Stop looking for one.

When you gather in the same place, it is not to eat the Lord's Supper.

Whether a person builds on this foundation with gold, silver, expensive stones, wood, hay, or straw,

Therefore, as it is written, "The person who boasts must boast in the Lord."

To those who do not have the Law, I became like a man who does not have the Law in order to win those who do not have the Law. However, I am not free from God's Law, but I'm subject to the Messiah's law.

Not all have the gift of healing, do they? Not all speak in foreign languages, do they? Not all interpret, do they?

And God chose what is insignificant in the world, what is despised, what is nothing, in order to destroy what is something,

But if you do get married, you have not sinned. And if a virgin gets married, she has not sinned. However, these people will experience trouble in this life, and I want to spare you from that.

I would like everyone to be unmarried, like I am. However, each person has a special gift from God, one this and another that.

I, Paul, am writing this greeting with my own hand.

A wife does not have authority over her own body, but her husband does. In the same way, a husband doesn't have authority over his own body, but his wife does.

You have homes in which to eat and drink, don't you? Or do you despise God's church and humiliate those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I will not praise you for this!

We are hungry, thirsty, dressed in rags, brutally treated, and homeless, right up to the present.

I mean, of course, his conscience, not yours. For why should my freedom be determined by someone else's conscience?

In the Law it is written, "By means of foreign languages and through the mouths of foreigners I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to me," declares the Lord.

The churches in Asia greet you. Aquila and Prisca and the church in their house greet you warmly in union with the Lord.

What, then, is my reward? It is to be able to preach the gospel free of charge, and so I never resort to demanding my rights when I'm preaching the gospel.

You must stop complaining, as some of them were doing, and were annihilated by the destroyer.

for "the earth and everything in it belong to the Lord."

the workmanship of each person will become evident, for the day of judgment will show what it is, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person's action.

Eat anything that is sold in the meat market without raising any question about it on the grounds of conscience,

If I eat with thankfulness, why should I be denounced because of what I am thankful for?

So I urge you to imitate me.

But I say this as a concession, not as a command.

and the parts of the body that we think are less honorable are treated with special honor, and we make our less attractive parts more attractive.

If what a person has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.

Foreign languages, then, are meant to be a sign, not for believers, but for unbelievers, while prophecy is meant, not for unbelievers, but for believers.

And you are being arrogant instead of being filled with grief and seeing to it that the man who did this is removed from among you.

so that no one may boast in God's presence.

and they all were immersed into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.

Now, while we are being judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so we won't be condemned along with the world.

In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are gathered together (and I am there in spirit), and the power of our Lord Jesus is there, too,

You know that when you were unbelievers, you were enticed and led astray to worship idols that couldn't even speak.

If an unbeliever invites you to his house and you wish to go, eat whatever is set before you, raising no question on the grounds of conscience.

Now if the whole church gathers in the same place and everyone is speaking in foreign languages, when uneducated people or unbelievers come in, they will say that you are out of your mind, won't they?

Not all are apostles, are they? Not all are prophets, are they? Not all are teachers, are they? Not all perform miracles, do they?

However, if someone says to you, "This was offered as a sacrifice," don't eat it, both out of consideration for the one who told you and also for the sake of conscience.

Now their experiences serve as examples for us so that we won't set our hearts on evil as they did.

Even though I am away from you physically, I am with you in spirit. I have already passed judgment on the man who did this, as though I were present with you.

We wear ourselves out from working with our own hands. When insulted, we bless. When persecuted, we endure.

If I am not an apostle to other people, surely I am one to you, for you are the evidence of my apostolic authority from the Lord.

Two or three prophets should speak, and others should weigh carefully what is said.

If anyone thinks he really knows something, he has not yet learned it as he ought to know it.

God raised the Lord, and by his power he will also raise us.

Brothers, stop being childish in your thinking. Be like infants with respect to evil, but think like adults.

For in the Law of Moses it is written, "You must not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain." God is not only concerned about oxen, is he?

May the grace of the Lord Jesus be with you!

If his work is burned up, he will suffer loss. However, he himself will be saved, but it will be like going through fire.

and there are varieties of ministries, but the same Lord.

Let's stop sinning sexually, as some of them were doing, and on a single day 23,000 fell dead.

For even if there are "gods" in heaven and on earth (as indeed there are many so-called "gods" and "lords"),

Some of you have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to evaluate you.

to another faith by the same Spirit; to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit;

Let's stop putting the Lord to the test, as some of them were doing, and were destroyed by snakes.

If a revelation is made to another person who is seated, the first person should be silent.

There are varieties of results, but it is the same God who produces all the results in everyone.

They all ate the same spiritual food

But God wasn't pleased with most of those people, and so they were struck down in the wilderness.

I'm not writing this to make you feel ashamed, but to warn you as my dear children.

Or is it only Barnabas and I who have to keep on working for a living?

But if everyone is prophesying, when an unbeliever or an uneducated person comes in he will be convicted and examined by everything that's happening.

Who ever goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat any of its grapes? Or who takes care of a flock and does not drink any of its milk?

That is the way I run, with a clear goal in mind. That is the way I fight, not like someone shadow boxing.

May my love remain with all of you in union with the Messiah Jesus.

I do all this for the sake of the gospel in order to have a share in its blessings.

If anyone speaks in a foreign language, only two or three at the most should do so, one at a time, and somebody must interpret.

But in church I would rather speak five words with my mind to instruct others than 10,000 words in a foreign language.

This is my defense to those who would examine me:

You may have 10,000 mentors who work for the Messiah, but not many fathers. For in the Messiah Jesus I became your father through the gospel.

You know that the person who unites himself with a prostitute becomes one body with her, don't you? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh."

But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people are so accustomed to idolatry that when they eat food that has been offered to an idol, their conscience becomes contaminated because it is weak.

Let's stop being idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to play."

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

However, food will not bring us closer to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat food that has been offered to an idol, and no better off if we do.

and again, "The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are worthless."

The spiritual person evaluates everything but is subject to no one else's evaluation.

If anyone destroys God's sanctuary, God will destroy him, for God's sanctuary is holy. And you are that sanctuary!

But anyone who loves God is known by him.

I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, because you weren't ready for it. And you're still not ready!

But I will come to you soon if it's the Lord's will. Then I'll discover not only what these arrogant people are saying but also what power they have,

I am not saying this on human authority, am I? The Law says the same thing, doesn't it?

The spirits of prophets are subject to the prophets,

We have the right to earn our food, don't we?

If an interpreter is not present, the speaker should remain silent in the church and speak to himself and God.

So let no one boast about human beings, since everything belongs to you,

For everyone can prophesy in turn, so that everyone can be instructed and everyone can be encouraged.

But the person who unites himself with the Lord becomes one spirit with him.

That's because you are still worldly. As long as there is jealousy and quarreling among you, you are worldly and living by human standards, aren't you?

This is why a woman should have authority over her own head: because of the angels.

I always thank my God for you because of the grace of God given you by the Messiah Jesus.

That's why so many of you are weak and sick and a considerable number are dying.

That's why I sent Timothy to you. He is my dear and dependable son in the Lord and will help you remember how I live for the Messiah Jesus as I teach everywhere in every church.

You know that we will rule angels, not to mention things in this life, don't you?

In the Lord, however, woman is not independent of man, nor is man of woman.

because whoever eats and drinks without recognizing the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself.

For we are God's co-workers. You are God's farmland and God's building.

For he must rule until God puts all the Messiah's enemies under his feet.

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus the Messiah!

in a moment, faster than an eye can blink, at the sound of the last trumpet. Indeed, that trumpet will sound, and then the dead will be raised never to decay, and we will be changed.

But someone will ask, "How are the dead raised? What kind of body will they have when they come back?"

For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also came through a man.

but you belong to the Messiah, and the Messiah belongs to God.

but we preach the Messiah crucified. He is a stumbling block to Jews and nonsense to gentiles,

"Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?"

and drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank from the spiritual rock that went with them. That rock was the Messiah.

for the kingdom of God isn't just talk, but also power.

But by God's grace I am what I am, and his grace shown to me was not wasted. Instead, I worked harder than all the others not I, of course, but God's grace that was with me.

To one has been given a message of wisdom by the Spirit; to another the ability to speak with knowledge according to the same Spirit;

Otherwise, what will those people do who are being baptized because of those who have died? If the dead are not raised at all, why are they being baptized because of them?

I face death every day! That is as certain, brothers, as it is that I am proud of you in the Messiah, Jesus our Lord.

For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast about, for this obligation has been entrusted to me. How terrible it would be for me if I didn't preach the gospel!

To the weak I became weak in order to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some of them.

But if we judged ourselves correctly, we would not be judged.

Now, when what is decaying is clothed with what cannot decay, and what is dying is clothed with what cannot die, then the written word will be fulfilled: "Death has been swallowed up by victory!"

Everything is permissible, but not everything is helpful. Everything is permissible, but not everything builds up.

For "Who has known the mind of the Lord so that he can advise him?" However, we have the mind of the Messiah.

For my conscience is clear, but that does not vindicate me. It is the Lord who examines me.

and by which you are also being saved if you hold firmly to the message I proclaimed to you unless, of course, your faith was worthless.

Instead, we speak about God's wisdom in a hidden secret, which God destined before the world began for our glory.

Is there anyone who can understand his own thoughts except his own inner spirit? In the same way, no one can know the thoughts of God except God's Spirit.

No, I keep on disciplining my body, making it serve me so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not somehow be disqualified.

Your boasting is not good. You know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough, don't you?

he was buried, he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures and is still alive!

So if a woman does not cover her head, she should cut off her hair. If it is a disgrace for a woman to cut off her hair or shave her head, let her cover her own head.

and he was seen by Cephas, and then by the Twelve.

Every man who prays or prophesies with something on his head dishonors his head,

It is a very small thing to me that I should be examined by you or by any human court. In fact, I don't even evaluate myself.

Now concerning eating food offered to idols: We know that no idol is real in this world and that there is only one God.

So if you have cases dealing with this life, why do you appoint as judges people who have no standing in the church?

whether Paul, Apollos, Cephas, the world, life, death, the present, or the future everything belongs to you,

For man did not come from woman, but woman from man;

This is how it will be at the resurrection of the dead. What is planted is decaying, what is raised cannot decay.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God kept everything growing.

Don't become a stumbling block to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God,

But now I am writing to you to stop associating with any so-called brother if he is sexually immoral, greedy, an idolater, a slanderer, a drunk, or a robber. You must even stop eating with someone like that.

But the person who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding, encouragement, and comfort.

And so, my dear friends, keep on running away from idolatry.

Faithful is the God by whom you were called into fellowship with his Son Jesus the Messiah, our Lord.

Now it is required of servant managers that each one should prove to be trustworthy.

My message and my preaching were not accompanied by clever, wise words, but by a display of the Spirit's power,

If I have the gift of prophecy and can understand all secrets and every form of knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains but have no love, I am nothing.

But one and the same Spirit produces all these results and gives what he wants to each person.

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, and reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up my childish ways.

I am free, am I not? I am an apostle, am I not? I have seen Jesus our Lord, haven't I? You are the result of my work in the Lord, aren't you?

Who is Apollos, anyhow? Or who is Paul? They're merely servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord gave to each of us his task.

Brothers, I have applied all this to Apollos and myself for your benefit, so that you may learn from us not to go beyond what the Scriptures say. Then you will stop boasting about one person at the expense of another.

I say this to make you feel ashamed. Has it come to this, that there is not one person among you who is wise enough to settle disagreements between brothers?

Because sexual immorality is so rampant, every man should have his own wife, and every woman should have her own husband.

Instead, one brother goes to court against another brother, and before unbelieving judges, at that!

turn this man over to Satan for the destruction of his body, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.

The last enemy to be done away with is death,

I want you to be free from concerns. An unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, that is, about how he can please the Lord.

If we have set our hopes on the Messiah in this life only, we deserve more pity than any other people.

but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, the Messiah is God's power and God's wisdom.

and if the Messiah has not been raised, then our message means nothing and your faith means nothing.

for "God has put everything under his feet." Now when he says, "Everything has been put under him," this clearly excludes the one who put everything under him.

The person who speaks in a foreign language builds himself up, but the person who prophesies builds up the church.

Where is the wise person? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? God has turned the wisdom of the world into nonsense, hasn't he?

A husband should fulfill his obligation to his wife, and a wife should do the same for her husband.

He did the same with the cup after the supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. As often as you drink from it, keep doing this in memory of me."

A person must examine himself and then eat the bread and drink from the cup,

Therefore, you don't lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus the Messiah to be revealed.

and she is never rude; she never thinks just of herself or ever gets annoyed. She never is resentful;

In the same way, since you're so desirous of spiritual gifts, you must keep on desiring them for building up the church.

Hardly! What they offer, they offer to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become partners with demons.

She bears up under everything; believes the best in all; there is no limit to her hope, and never will she fall.

For who makes you superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not receive it?

Do not withhold yourselves from each other unless you agree to do so just for a set time, in order to devote yourselves to prayer. Then you should come together again so that Satan does not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

You know that your bodies belong to the Messiah, don't you? Should I take what belongs to the Messiah and unite them with a prostitute? Certainly not!

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

If I have fought with wild animals in Ephesus from merely human motives, what do I get out of it? If the dead are not raised, "Let's eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."

However, this will happen to each person in the proper order: first the Messiah, then those who belong to the Messiah when he comes.

But when everything has been put under him, then the Son himself will also become subject to the one who put everything under him, so that God may be all in all.

What does this mean? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my mind. I will sing psalms with my spirit, but I will also sing psalms with my mind.

For if I pray in a foreign language, my spirit prays but my mind is not productive.

Even if I give away everything that I have and sacrifice myself, but have no love, I gain nothing.

Keep on desiring the better gifts. And now I will show you the best way of all.

Everyone who enters an athletic contest practices self-control in everything. They do it to win a wreath that withers away, but we run to win a prize that never fades.

But everything must be done in a proper and orderly way.

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, only in the Lord.

to another miraculous results; to another prophecy; to another the ability to distinguish between spirits; to another various kinds of languages; and to another the interpretation of languages.

His secret, inner heart will become known, and so he will bow down to the ground and worship God, declaring, "God is truly among you!"

I (not the Lord) say to the rest of you: If a brother has a wife who is an unbeliever and she is willing to live with him, he must not abandon her.

and every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, which is the same as having her head shaved.

You know that the saints will rule the world, don't you? And if the world is going to be ruled by you, can't you handle insignificant cases?

A man should not cover his head, because he exists as God's image and glory. But the woman is man's glory.

For what we know is incomplete and what we prophesy is incomplete.

and man was not created for woman, but woman for man.

Which do you prefer? Should I come to you with a stick, or with love and a gentle spirit?

For the person who speaks in a foreign language is not actually speaking to people but to God. Indeed, no one understands him, because he is talking about secrets by the Spirit.

For God's nonsense is wiser than human wisdom, and God's weakness is stronger than human strength.

After that, he was seen by more than 500 brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have died.

Now I wish that all of you could speak in foreign languages, but especially that you could prophesy. The person who prophesies is more important than the person who speaks in a foreign language, unless he interprets it so that the church may be built up.

is never glad with sin; she's always glad to side with truth, and pleased that truth will win.

Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food, but God will make them both unnecessary. The body is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

We have the right to take a believing wife with us like the other apostles, the Lord's brothers, and Cephas, don't we?

Now concerning virgins, although I do not have any command from the Lord, I will give you my opinion as one who by the Lord's mercy is trustworthy.

and if the Messiah has not been raised, your faith is worthless and you are still imprisoned by your sins.

If anyone doesn't love the Lord, let him be !

Nevertheless, everyone should live the life that the Lord gave him and to which God called him. This is my rule in all the churches.

No one should seek his own welfare, but rather his neighbor's.

For what is decaying must be clothed with what cannot decay, and what is dying must be clothed with what cannot die.

None of the rulers of this world understood it, because if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

Next he was seen by James, then by all the apostles,

Nature itself teaches you neither that it is disgraceful for a man to have long hair

It is planted a physical body but is raised a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body.

But when what is complete comes, then what is incomplete will be done away with.