Know you not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? be not deceived: neither the licentious, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor the brutal,

I acquainted you chiefly with what I received myself, that Christ died for our sins, as the scriptures foretold:

Social affection is patient, is kind; is a stranger to envy; is not insolently vain, nor arrogant: does not behave indecently,

what! know ye not that your bodies are the temple of the holy spirit, which is in you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?

you have met with no trials yet, but such as are common to men: and God who is faithful, will not suffer you to be tempted above your strength; but will with the temptation make a way to escape, by enabling you to bear it.

What I have explain'd to you, my brethren, is the gospel which I preached to you, which you have received, and wherein you have persisted:

For tho' I should speak with the eloquence of men, and of angels, and not have social affection, I should be like sounding brass, or a noisy cymbal.

For tho' the doctrine of the cross seems folly to those that perish: yet we that are to be saved, do feel its energy is divine.

For as the body is one, tho' it has many members, and all the members of that one body, tho' many, are one body: so also is the body of Christ.

this I say, my brethren, because the body, as it is at present, cannot possess the kingdom of God; and what is corruptible, can't enjoy incorruptibility.

For I received it from the Lord, and I inform'd you of it: that the Lord Jesus, the night in which he was betrayed, took bread:

whether therefore you eat or drink, or whatsoever you do, do all to the glory of God.

while one cries I am Paul's disciple, and another, I am Apollo's, are ye not vicious?

I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in great agony:

Don't you know, that you are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwells in you?

for by one spirit we have all been baptized, to be form'd into one body, whether Jews or Gentiles, slaves or free; and have been all made to drink of one spirit.

but, as it is written, "eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entred into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him."

I shall now tell you a very great secret: we shall not all of us sleep, but we shall all be changed,

As to the unmarried and widows, I say, it is best for them to continue so, as I do.

Now there are different gifts, but the same spirit.

but the animal man does not receive the effusions of the spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him; neither can he understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to maintain all the same doctrine, to suffer no divisions among you; but to be perfectly united in the same mind, and in the same judgment.

or is it said, no doubt, for our sakes? for our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he who plows should plow in hope; and that he who thresheth should expect the advantage.

for as the woman was taken from the man, so man is born of the woman: and all are from God.

You know, that in a race, tho' all run, but one receives the prize: so run, that you may obtain.

Now concerning those who are spiritual, my brethren, I would not have you be mistaken.

for from him it is that ye believe in Christ Jesus, whom God has made to us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: that,

but take care that this liberty of yours does not prove a scandal to the weak.

the body is not one member, but many.

to the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who being sanctified by Christ Jesus, are saints by that vocation, to all that any where invoke the name of Jesus Christ, who is both their Lord and ours.

But Christ is actually risen, as previous to those who were dead.

Now as to the question you writ to me about; "whether it is best for a man not to marry?"

therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye inflexibly steady, and continually surpass others in the work of the Lord, knowing that he will not leave your christian labour unrewarded.

I would not have you ignorant, my brethren, that all our fathers were under the Cloud, all passed thro' the sea:

and now faith, hope, social virtue, these three will all remain; but the most permanent of the three is social virtue.

yet to us there is but one God, the father, from whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

but I would have you take notice, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the wife, is the man; and the head of Christ, is God.

therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with unaffected sincerity and truth.

beside, you are absolutely in the wrong in going to law with one another at all: why don't you rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer loss?

now we do but indirectly see the faint images of things; but then the objects themselves will be before our eyes; now I have a partial knowledge, but then shall I know, even as I myself am known.

Let your women be silent in your assemblies: for they are not allowed to discourse there; but are to observe orders, as indeed the law implies:

Imitate herein my example as I do that of Christ.

for no one can lay any other foundation, than what is laid, which is, that Jesus is the Messias.

this is what God has revealed to us by his spirit: for the spirit penetrates into all things, even the profound counsels of God.

now to particular men the spirit gives particular gifts, that they may be displayed to greater advantage.

flee licentiousness. no other sin that a man commits does affect the church as a body: but the licentious commits a fraud against the whole body to which he belongs.

Social affection will never fail: but as for prophecies, they shall be out of use; as for languages, they shall cease; as for knowledge, it shall vanish away.

for tho' I am independent of all men, yet have I subjected myself to all, that I might gain the more.

purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new mass, since you should be without leaven. for Christ our paschal lamb has been sacrificed for us.

the cup of benediction which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? the bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

However, I could not speak to you, my brethren, as to the spiritual, or as to the dispassionate, but as to novices in christianity.

if for your benefit we have sown spirituals, is it so extraordinary if we should reap some benefit from your temporals?

but if they have not the gift, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to be in pain.

Are all things lawful for me? however, all things are not expedient: are all things lawful for me? however, I will not be a slave to any.

for if any man see you who have a just notion of idols, sitting at table in their temple, will not the person who is wrong in his notions be incouraged to eat what is offered to idols, tho' contrary to his own opinion?

in your being enriched by him in every gift, with all that light and knowledge,

for as by Adam all die, even so by Christ shall all be restored to life.

we have it from all quarters, that incest is practis'd among you, and such as is not among the Gentiles, that of a man's having his father's wife.

Let men consider us, as the ministers of Christ, who dispense the divine mysteries.

Thus you are the body of Christ, being the particular members of it.

now the spirit which we have received, is not the spirit of this world, but that which comes from God; that we might know what he has graciously bestowed upon us.

for God is not the God of confusion, but of peace, in all christian assemblies.

Now as to the collection for the converts at Jerusalem, do as I have directed for the churches of Galatia.

and so it is written, the first man Adam was made an animating soul, the last Adam was made a vivifying spirit.

Paul appointed by the divine will to be an apostle of Jesus Christ, and Sosthenes our brother,

for if the dead are not raised, then was not Christ raised:

Cultivate social virtue; then desire spiritual gifts, but chiefly that of explaining the prophetical writings.

which God has placed in the church, first apostles, next prophets, then teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, assistants, governours, interpreters of languages.

and then will be the end, when he shall deliver up the kingdom to God even the father; after having abolished all rule, and all authority, and power.

Now if it has been declared, that Christ rose from the dead, how comes it, that some among you assert, "there is no resurrection of the dead?"

and such were some of you: but you have been washed, you have been sanctified, you have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and by the spirit of our God.

now I commend you, brethren, for remembring all my orders, and for keeping the rules I delivered to you.

As for me, my brethren, when I appear'd among you, it was not to represent to you the divine mystery in sublime language, and with human literature.

Now as to things offered to idols, 'tis certain that the knowledge you all pretend to have, swells you with pride, but 'tis charity that edifieth.

whereby the testimony we gave concerning Christ was confirmed among you.

every sabbath-day let every one of you set apart something of what he has happily gain'd, for the common treasury, that there may be no collection when I come.

but God hath chosen those who are foolish in the opinion of the world, to confound the wise; and the weak men of the world to confound the mighty:

and God will confirm you to the end, that ye may be unaccused in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

for whereas the world, with all their learning, did not distinguish the characters of his divine wisdom, in his works, it pleased God to save those who believe, by preaching, which they counted folly.

for consider, brethren, that not many worldly wise, not many men of power, not many men of birth are among you that are called.

be not deceived : "vicious conversation corrupts good morals."

Be you yourselves judges: is it decent for a woman to pray to God without a veil?

Be upon the watch, stand firm in the faith, behave your selves like men of fortitude:

what is then to be done, my brethren? when you come together, one of you with a psalm, another with a doctrine, another with a strange tongue, another with a revelation, another with an interpretation: let the whole be done to edification.

for I have been inform'd, my brethren, by some of Chloe's family, that there are contentions among you.

wherefore let him that thinks he stands firm, take heed lest he fall.

wherefore I give you to understand, that no man who has the spirit of God, can pronounce Jesus anathema: and that no man can acknowledge Jesus to be the Lord, but by the holy spirit.

Now in what I am going to say, I do not commend you, because your assemblies are not to your advantage, but to your prejudice.

When any controversy arises among you, will any one presume to appeal to the Gentiles, and not to Christians?

However, what we preach is wisdom, to those who are thoroughly instructed: yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who will soon come to nothing.

I did not mean the vicious Gentiles, the misers, the raparees, or with idolaters; for then you must have gone out of the world.

All these things happened to them for examples: and are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.

therefore suspend your judgment till the Lord comes, who will bring to light the secrets of darkness, and expose the counsels of mens hearts: and then shall every man have his due reward from God.

As often then as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye make a declaration of the Lord's death till he come.

for you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.

according to the free gift of God bestowed upon me, I, as a skilful architect, have laid the foundation, and another builds thereon. but let every man take heed how he builds thereupon.

for Christ did not send me to baptize: but to preach the gospel: tho' not with the preaching of the wise, lest the cross of Christ should have been hinder'd in its efficacy.

When I formerly writ to you, not to keep company with the vicious:

so that whosoever eats this bread, and drinks this cup without respect to the Lord, does make a criminal use of the body and blood of the Lord.

for I did not think I was to have any other knowledge among you, than that of Christ, a crucified saviour.

this is what we declare, not in the words which human wisdom, but which the holy spirit dictates; explaining spiritual things in a spiritual language.

I am glad that Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus are come: for what was wanting on your side, they have supplied.

on the contrary, such is an ornament to a woman: because it was given her as a sort of veil.

and I of Christ." is the school of Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were you baptized into the name of Paul?

and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, "take, eat; this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me."

as to the married, I enjoin this rule, not as from my self, but from the Lord, that a woman should not leave her husband:

nay, in this case, you act injuriously, and do damage even to your brethren.

I mean that one or other of you cries out "I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas,

but if any man has a mind to be contentious, I answer, we have no such custom, nor any of the churches of God.

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

if the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? if the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?

consider the custom of the Jews by descent, are not they which eat of the sacrifices, partakers of the altar? what say I then?

for the bread being one, as many as we are, we are one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.

so that your notions may endanger the life of thy weak brother, for whom Christ died.

for the unbelieving husband is christianiz'd by the believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is christianiz'd by the believing husband: else were your children heathens: whereas they are christians.

if others partake of your substance, have not I a better title? nevertheless, I have not made use of this privilege; but bear with any thing rather than obstruct the gospel of Christ.

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

if the foot should say, "because I am not the hand, I am not of the body;" is it therefore not of the body?

otherwise if you should give thanks by the spirit in an unknown tongue, the hearer cannot but appear unlearned upon this occasion; how then can he say Amen to thy thanksgiving? since he does not conceive what you say.

true, I baptized the family of Stephanas: but I don't know that I baptized any other besides.

don't you know, that they who prepare the sacrifices, do eat of the sacrifice in the temple? and they who wait at the altar, have their portion from the altar?

and if the ear should say, "because I am not the eye, I am not of the body;" is it therefore not of the body?

I speak as to knowing men: be you your selves the judges of what I say.

and if a woman has a pagan husband, who likes to live with her, let her not leave him.

but when you thus offend against the brethren, by wounding their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

lest any should say, I had baptized into mine own name.

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

he that planteth, and he that watereth, have the same design: and each shall receive his proper reward, in proportion to his own labour.

while the Jews require signs, and the Greeks seek wisdom:

for they have quieted my mind as well as yours: therefore to such have a regard.

now God disposed every one of the members in the body as he thought fit.

You have already a sufficiency, you already abound, you live like princes in our absence: and would to God you did reign, that we too might have the advantage of your administration.

so then, neither is he that planted any thing, nor he that watered: it is God only that gives the increase.

wherefore if my eating makes my brother offend, I will never eat flesh rather than make my brother offend.

thus, tho' there are many members, yet there is but one body.

even so has the Lord ordained, that they who preach the gospel, should live by the gospel.

those that are without, God will judge. therefore expel the libertine from your community.

for it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent."

that your faith might not be owing to human wisdom, but to the divine influence.

and when we are defamed, we intreat: in a word, we are look'd upon as the dregs and scum of mankind, even to this day.

for it seems as if God had exposed us apostles the last upon the stage, as persons appointed to death. for we are made a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.

does a Jew turn Christian? let him not pretend to be uncircumcised: does a Gentile turn Christian? let him not become circumcised.

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

O wife, but you may save your husband? or how do you know, O man, but you may save your wife?

but I have not made use of these advantages. neither have I writ this to obtain such maintenance: for I had rather die for want, than be deprived of such matter of glorying.

This I say, brethren, because the time is coming, when they who have wives will be as those that have none;

for what have I to do to judge those who are without the church; but are not you to judge those that are within?

were you called being a slave? be not perplex'd about it; but if you can obtain your freedom, don't refuse it.

nay, those parts of the body, which seem to be of the least account, are much more necessary.

that the idol, or that what is offered in sacrifice to the idol, is a matter of consequence?

have you been redeemed from slavery? then, don't turn slaves.

and they that weep, as those that are unconcern'd; and they that rejoice, as those that do not; and they that buy, as those that have no possessions;

brethren, let every man conscientiously continue in the state he was in when he was converted.

I thank God, I speak more languages than you all:

we are made fools for our attachment to Christ, while you, who are christians too, still pass for the wise: we are in poverty, but you are in power: you meet with esteem, but we find contempt.

for there must be factions among you, whereby it will appear who among you are the approved.

of which the graceful have no need: but God has contrived the symmetry of the body, by bestowing an additional advantage where it seem'd to want it.

that there might be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same mutual concern for one another.

thy thanksgiving indeed is right, but the other is not all edified by it.

nor thieves, nor misers, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor raparees, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

now if I do this willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, it is a dispensation of trust which must be discharged.

then they too who died christians, are entirely lost.

for the slave that turns christian, is the Lord's freedman: likewise, the freeman that becomes a convert is Christ's servant.

for first, I hear, that when you come together in the church, you fall into parties; and I believe it is true of some of you.

you should not drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: you should not be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of demons.

and they that possess this world, as those that can't make an ill use of it. for the scene of this world is continually shifting. I would have you free from anxiety.

to the Jews, I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;

circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, in comparison of obeying the divine commands.

let every man continue in the same state he was in when he turn'd christian.

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

for in eating every one strives to take his own supper first, and while one is hungry, another is surfeited.

I think therefore it is best, considering the present distress, I say, it is best, for a single person to continue so still.

are you contracted to a wife? seek not to be disengag'd. are you disengag'd from your wife? don't look out for another;

when you thus assemble therefore, this is not eating the Lord's supper.

now if upon this foundation somebody builds gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble: he that builds such work,

according as it is written, "he that glorieth, should glory in the Lord."

to those who are without the law, as without that law, (not as being under no law to God, but as under the law to Christ) that I might gain those who are without the law.

have all the gifts of healing? do all speak divers languages? do all interpret?

those who were looked upon by the world as vile, as despicable, as nothing, these has God chosen to reduce their sufficiency to nothing.

not that it is a sin for you to marry; nor is it so if a virgin marry; but they that do, will be troubled for their relations, and that I would prevent.

for I wish that all men were as I myself am: but every man hath his proper gift from God, some one way, and some another.

I Paul salute you, and with my own handwriting.

the wife has not the right of her own person, but the husband: and so likewise the husband has not the right of his own person, but the wife.

what, have you no houses to eat and drink in? or have ye a contempt for the church of God, or is it to insult those who are in want? what shall I say to you? shall I commend such behaviour? I do not approve of it.

to this very day we suffer both hunger, thirst, and penury: we are buffeted from place to place, as vagabonds:

when I say conscience, I don't mean your own, but that of the other: for why should I expose my liberty to the censure of another man's conscience?

in the law it is written, " with men of other tongues and other lips, will I speak unto this people: and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord."

The churches of Asia, salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you with much christian affection, and so do the church that is in their house.

whence then is my reward? why, from my preaching the gospel of Christ gratis, without making use of the privilege which the gospel gives me.

neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and were slain by the destroying angel.

for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.

will be expos'd. for the time of tryal will show it: it shall be discovered by the fire, which will put each sort of work to the test.

whatever is sold in the shambles, that eat, without making any scrupulous enquiry.

if I am thankful for what I have, why should I chuse to be evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?

and therefore I intreat you, to copy after me.

but as for the rest, I speak it by way of counsel, and not of command.

what we think to be less honourable, is loaded with additional ornaments, and the less graceful have adventitious finery,

if the work abide which somebody has built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.

wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to believers, but to unbelievers: but expounding the prophets, not for unbelievers so much as for those who believe.

this you have made a matter of levity, instead of being concern'd in discarding him that has done such an action.

that no man might glory before God;

and were all baptized into the Mosaical institution by the cloud, and by the sea;

but when we are punished, we are chastised by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

that is, when you are assembled, and I virtually there, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

when you were Gentiles, you know how you were seduced by your leaders, to the worship of dumb idols.

if any of the unbelievers invite you to an entertainment, and you are disposed to go; whatever is set before you, eat, without asking any question out of a scruple of conscience.

when therefore the whole church is assembled, and all speak different languages, if such as are either unlearned, or are unbelievers should come in, will they not say you are all mad?

are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?

but if any man say to you, this is offered in sacrifice to an idol, don't eat, for his sake that mentioned it, and for conscience sake.

now these things were examples to deter us from longing after things that are pernicious, as they did.

as for me, though I am absent in person, yet being present by my authority, with regard to him that has committed this fact, I am come to the same resolution, as if I was present,

we are fatigu'd by our manual toil: when reviled, we pray: when persecuted, we don't repine:

if I am not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you: for your being christians is the proof of my apostleship.

of the prophets let but two or three speak by turns, and let the others deliberate.

and if any man be conceited of his own knowledge, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know it.

for as God hath raised up the Lord, so will he likewise raise us up to partake of his own power.

Brethren, be not childish in understanding: be as innocent as babes, but use your understanding like men.

for it is written in the law of Moses, "thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn." are oxen the objects of divine care?

the favour of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

if that man's work should be burnt, he will suffer loss: but should he himself escape, it will be as out of the fire.

and there are different offices, but the same Lord.

neither let us commit fornication, as some of them did, of whom three and twenty thousand fell in one day.

for tho' there are several titular deities, both in heaven and on earth: such as the whole crowd of gods, and lords among the Gentiles;

Some make their boast as if I would not come to you.

to another faith; to another the gifts of healing;

neither let us provoke Christ as some of them provoked him, and were destroyed by serpents.

if the meaning be revealed to another that sits by, let the first be silent.

and there are different operations, but it is the same God who performs them all in every one.

they all eat the same spiritual meat,

but with the greater part God was not well pleased: for their carcasses were strown in the wilderness.

This I don't write to give you any confusion, but by way of remonstrance, to you who are my dear children.

or I and Barnabas, are we only excluded the privilege of not working?

but if you all expound, and an unbeliever, or one unlearned come in, he is examin'd by all, he is tryed by all:

who ever serves in war at his own charges? who plants a vineyard, and does not eat of the fruit? or who feeds a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock?

I therefore so run, not as one that is distanc'd: I fight, but not with the air.

present my love to every christian among you. amen.

and I do all for the gospel's sake, that I may share in the benefits thereof.

and if any man do speak in an unknown tongue, let but two speak, or three at the most, and that by turns: and let there be but one to interpret.

yet in the church I had rather speak five words that convey my meaning to the instruction of others, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

my answer to those who call me to account, is this:

for though you may have ten thousand christian preceptors, you cannot have many fathers; since it was I that first instructed you in the gospel of Christ Jesus:

it cannot be. why, don't you perceive, that where there is such an attachment, they are but as one person? for the scripture says, "they two shall be as one."

But every one has not this knowledge: for some still imagine the idol represents a deity: and eat the meat under the notion of an offering to such a being: by which erroneous opinion they are infected with idolatry.

be not idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, "the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."

all the brethren salute you. salute one another with an holy kiss.

meat does not recommend us to God: if we eat, we are not the better men; if we don't eat, we are not the worse.

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

but they are all expos'd to the judgment of the spiritual, whilst he himself is not subject to the judgment of any man.

if any man divide the temple of God, him shall God destroy: for you, who are the temple of God, are consecrated to him.

but if a man love God, the same is taught by him.

I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, nor have you yet sufficient strength.

but if the Lord pleases, I will visit you very soon; and then I shall try, not what these boasters can say, but what they can do:

is this only the voice of reason? does not the law express the same too?

the prophetic gifts are to be subservient to the prophets.

have we not a right to meat and drink?

but if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and tacitly address himself to God.

therefore, let no one glory in men: for all are yours:

for ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may receive instruction and exhortation.

but he that is attach'd to the Lord, is united to him by one and the same spirit.

for you are still subject to your passions. since envy, and strife, and divisions are among you, are you not actuated by the vices of the animal part?

therefore the woman ought to be veil'd, out of regard to the angels.

I continually give thanks to God on your behalf, for the favour he has bestowed on you thro' Jesus Christ;

hence it is, that many are weak and sickly among you, and no small number now sleep in their graves.

'tis for this end I have sent you Timothy, who is my dear disciple, and a faithful christian, who will inform you how I behave my self in every church where I teach the gospel of Christ.

don't you know that we shall be judges of angels? much more then of the affairs of life?

however, the man and the woman are equal with respect to the Lord.

for he that eats and drinks in a disrespectful manner, not discriminating the Lord's body, eateth and drinketh to his own punishment.

For we are fellow labourers employed by God: you are his field, and his mansion.

for he must reign, "till God has cast all his enemies under his feet."

but thanks be to God, who has given us the victory, thro' our Lord Jesus Christ.

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the sound of the last trumpet (for the trumpet shall sound) and the dead shall rise incorruptible; but as for us, we shall be changed.

But some will say, how will the dead be raised? with what kind of body will they appear?

for since by man came death, by man the resurrection of the dead will likewise come.

all are yours; and you are Christ's; and Christ is God's.

we preach Christ crucified, an obstacle to the Jews indeed, and to the Gentiles foolishness: but to those who believe,

"O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?"

and all drank the same spiritual drink: (for they drank of what flowed from the spiritual rock: and that rock was Christ.)

for the gospel dispensation does not consist in talk, but in power.

it is by the divine favour that I am what I am: and his favour to me was not in vain; no, I laboured more than they all: yet it was not I, it was the divine favour which assisted me.

for to one the spirit gives the knowledge of the prophetical writings; to another the same spirit gives the knowledge of the doctrines of religion;

If it be not so, what can they effect who are baptized for the dead? if the dead rise not at all, why are they then baptized for the dead?

I am daily receiving new mortifications, witness your cruel boastings against me, which I bear for the sake of Christ Jesus our Lord;

for in barely preaching the gospel, I have nothing to glory in: because I am under an obligation to do it; yea, wo is unto me if I preach not the gospel.

to the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak: I became all things to all men, that I might save all sorts of men.

for if we made such a discrimination, we should not be punished.

but when this corruptible shall be invested with incorruptibility, and this mortal with immortality, then shall be fulfilled that passage of scripture, " death is swallowed up for ever."

are all things lawful for me? yet all things are not expedient: are all things lawful for me? yet all things do not edify.

for how can he, that does not know the mind of the Lord, instruct another? but as for us, we are acquainted with the mind of the Lord.

(for though I am not conscious to my self of any unfaithfulness, yet am I not hereby absolved:) but he that is my supreme judge, is the Lord.

by which also you will be saved, if you so retain it as I preached it to you, unless you have believed without sufficient grounds.

but we explain that mysterious plan of divine wisdom, which God had contriv'd before the ages, for our glory:

for who knows the thoughts of a man, but the spirit of man which is in him? even so the thoughts of God no one can know, but the spirit of God.

but I mortify my body, and bring it into subjection: lest after having been a herald to others, I my self should be thrown out.

Your levity is very indecent: don't you know that a little leaven infects the whole mass?

that he was buried, and rose again the third day, as the scriptures foretold:

a woman may as well have the tonsure, as not wear her veil: the one is as indecent as the other.

that he was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve:

every man who prays or prophesies having his head covered, dishonoureth him who is his head: but every woman who prays

as for me, it is a matter of no great concern that I should be called to account by you, or any human authority; not that I am my own judge;

As to the eating therefore of what is offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that the heathen deities have no real existence, and that there is but one God.

if then you have the cognizance of such matters, why do ye set those to judge who are despised by the church? I speak it to your shame.

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

for the man was not taken from the woman: but the woman from the man.

such will be the resurrection of the dead: the body is sown corruptible, it will be raised incorruptible.

I have planted, Apollos watered: but God gave the increase.

give no offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God.

but my meaning was, not to keep company with any christian known to be vicious, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious, no not even to eat with such a one.

but he that expounds, speaks to the edification, exhortation, and comfort of men.

wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

for he, who has called you to the communication of his son Jesus Christ our Lord, will make good his promise.

now it is required in a steward, that he be found faithful.

my discourse, and my preaching did not consist in the persuasive reasonings of human wisdom, but in demonstrating the spiritual meaning of the scriptures:

and tho' I should have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and tho' I had all the faith necessary to remove mountains, and had no benevolence, it would signify nothing.

but all are wrought by one and the same spirit, distributing to every one in particular, as he thinks fit.

when I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child: but when I became a man, I laid aside my childish ways.

Am I not free? am I not an apostle? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not you become christians by my labour?

who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye have received faith according to the divine gifts imparted to each of them?

These things, my brethren, I have represented to you in my own person, and that of Apollos, out of respect to you: to show you how to moderate your esteem by the rule prescrib'd, that you may not be transported in favour of one rather than another.

what, is there not a man of experience amongst you, capable of being arbitrator between his brethren?

I answer, with regard to the licentious, it is best for a man, to have his wife; and for a woman to have her husband.

but when a contest arises, you must refer the decision to infidels?

to deliver him up to satan, to suffer corporal punishment, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus Christ.

the last enemy that shall be destroyed, is death.

the unmarried is religiously concerned, how he may please the Lord:

if our expectations as christians all terminate in this life, we of all men are most to be pitied.

both Jews and Gentiles, he is the Christ, the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

and if Christ be not risen, then our preaching is empty talk, and your faith even meer amusement.

for he hath subjected all things to him. but when it is said all things are subjected, it is plain that he is to be excepted, who did subject all things to him.

he that speaks in an unknown tongue, edifies himself alone: but he that expounds, edifies the church.

where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputant of this age? has not God prov'd the wisdom of this world to be downright folly.

let the husband discharge his obligations to his wife: and likewise the wife to the husband.

in the same manner he took the cup, after supper, and said, "this cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me."

Let a man then sift and approve himself, and accordingly let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.

so that you will be deficient in no gift; during your expectation of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:

is not self-interested, is not easily provoked, nor suspects any ill;

But since there is emulation among you concerning spiritual gifts, seek to abound in the exercise of such gifts as tend most to the edification of the church.

no, but that what the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I would not have you partake of the sacrifices of demons.

it excuses all things, believes what is favourable, hopes for the best, and suffers the worst.

for who has distinguish'd thee above another? or what have you, that you did not receive? now if you did receive it, why do you glory as if you had not received it?

don't desert one another, unless you mutually consent to retire for a time, to the solemnity of prayer; and then come together again, lest satan make an attempt upon your continency.

Don't you know, that your bodies are parts of Christ's mystical body? now, how can that which is Christ's, be made the property of a very creature?

for I am the meanest of the apostles, not worthy the name of an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

besides, my engaging with those monsters, as I may say, at Ephesus, what advantage was it to me? if the dead don't rise, "let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die."

but every one in proper order: Christ has the precedence, next they who were Christians shall rise at his advent.

and when all things shall be reduced under subjection to him, then shall the son also himself be subject to him that put all things under his subjection, that God may be all in all.

what then is to be done? why, I will pray by the spirit, but my prayer shall be intelligible: I will sing by the spirit, but my hymn shall be intelligible.

for if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit indeed prays, but my meaning is of no benefit to others.

and tho' I distribute my whole substance to the poor, and give my body to be burned, and have not social affection, it profits me nothing.

you are contesting about the superiority of your gifts: but I point out to you a more excellent way.

every one that strives for the mastery, is extremely temperate: now, they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible one.

let all things be done with decency, and without disorder.

The wife is bound as long as her husband lives: but if her husbnd be dead, she is at liberty to be married, if she pleases; provided it be to a christian.

to another the working of miracles; to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits; to another diversity of languages; to another the interpretation of languages.

the secrets of his heart become manifest; and so falling down on his face, he will worship God, and declare that God is certainly amongst you.

But as to the other cases, which were not decided by the Lord; I say, if any brother has a pagan wife, who likes to live with him, let him not put her away.

or prophesies with her head uncovered, dishonoureth the man who is her head: for it is the same thing as if her head was shav'd.

don't you know that these are to judge the world? if the world is to be judg'd by you, are not you qualify'd to decide your petty causes?

A man ought not to be veil'd: he has the honour of being invested with authority from God, and may glory in his priority to the woman.

for our knowledge is defective, and our prophesying is defective.

nor was the man copied from the woman: but the woman from the man.

Which would you chuse, that I should come to you arm'd with resentment? or, in a mild and benevolent temper?

for he that speaks in an unknown tongue, speaks not to men, but to God: for no man can understand the mysteries he delivers by the spirit.

for this divine doctrine, as foolish and weak as men may think it, far surpasses all their wisdom, and baffles all their power.

after that, he was seen by above five hundred brethren at once: of whom the greater part remain alive to this day, but some are now dead.

I wish you all had the gift of languages, but rather that you expounded: for greater is he that expounds, than he that speaks unknown languages, except he interpret what he says, that the church may be edified by it.

it does not countenance injustice, but smiles upon virtue;

"meat is design'd for the belly, and the belly for meat:" true, yet God has design'd both for destruction. now the body is not design'd for licentiousness, but for the glory of the Lord; since the Lord died for the glorification of the body:

have not we the liberty to take a christian woman with us in our travels, as well as the rest of the apostles, as the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas did?

As to the case of celibacy, I have no positive instructions: yet my advice deserves to be regarded, as coming from one the divine favour has distinguished.

and if Christ was not raised, your faith is meer illusion, your sins are not yet forgiven.

If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accurst.

Whatever condition God has allotted to any man, let him go on in the same state he was in when he became a christian: this I give as a standing rule to all churches.

Let no man consult barely his own interest: but every man that of others.

for this corruptible body must be invested with incorruptibility, this mortal be invested with immortality.

which none of the rulers of this age understood: for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

after that he was seen by James; then by all the apostles.

does not settled custom show it is a shame for a man to have long hair?

it is sown an animal body, it will rise a spiritual body. there is an animal body, and there is a spiritual body.

but when that which is perfect is come, then that which is defective shall be laid aside.