Most Popular Bible Verses in 1 Corinthians

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Moreover, brethren, I declare anew to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also ye received, and wherein ye stand,

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And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor doth corruption inherit incorruption.

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For I received of the Lord, what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took a loaf,

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

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

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Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep; but we shall all be changed,

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Or doth he say it altogether on our account? On our account, no doubt, it was written, that he who plougheth ought to plough in hope, and that he who thrasheth should do it in the hope of partaking.

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

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

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let your women keep silence in the churches; for it is not permitted them to speak, but they are to be in subjection, as also saith the Law.

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

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

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

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that in him ye were enriched in everything, in all utterance, and all knowledge,

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

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Now concerning the collection for the saints, according to the directions which I gave to the churches of Galatia, so also do ye.

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For if the dead rise not, then Christ hath not risen;

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But if Christ be preached that he hath risen from the dead, how is it that some among you say, that there is no resurrection of the dead?

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Now I praise you, brethren, that in all things ye remember me, and hold fast the instructions, as I delivered them to you.

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

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Now concerning the things offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth;

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as the testimony of Christ was established among you;

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but the foolish things of the world did God choose, to put to shame the wise; and the weak things of the world did God choose, to put to shame the things which are strong;

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Judge in your own selves; is it comely that a woman pray to God uncovered?

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For I have been informed concerning you, my brethren, by those of the family of Chloe, that there are dissensions among you.

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But I give you this charge, not praising you, because ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.

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

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

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For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink the cup, ye show forth the Lords death, till he come.

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According to the grace of God bestowed on me, I, as a skilful masterbuilder, have laid the foundation; and another buildeth thereon; but let every one take heed, how he buildeth thereon.

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So that whoever eateth the bread or drinketh the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty with respect to the body and the blood of the Lord.

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I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus; for what was lacking on your part, they supplied;

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Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were ye baptized the name of Paul?

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But ye yourselves wrong, and defraud, and that too your brethren.

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

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

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

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For through thy knowledge he that is weak perisheth,the brother for whom Christ died!

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

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I thank God that I baptized none of you, but 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 for this reason not of the body?

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Else, if thou bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the place of the unlearned say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, since he understandeth not what thou art saying?

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

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

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And if the ear say, Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body, is it for this reason not of the body?

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I speak as to wise men, judge ye what I say.

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But when ye so sin against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.

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that no one may say that ye were baptized into my name.

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

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And he that planteth and he that watereth are one; and each will receive his own reward, according to his own labor.

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for they refreshed my spirit and yours. Pay regard then to those that are such.

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Already ye are full; already ye are rich; without us ye have become kings; and I would indeed ye were kings, that we also might reign with you.

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So then, neither he that planteth nor he that watereth is anything, but God that giveth the growth.

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

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But now there are, indeed, many members, but one body.

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In like manner also did the Lord ordain that they who preach the gospel should live from the gospel.

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For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nought the discernment of the discerning."

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For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles as lowest, as men sentenced to death; for we have been made a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.

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

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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.

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But I have used no right of this kind; nor have I written thus that anything of this kind should be done for me; for it were better for me to die, than that any one should take from me what I glory in.

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Nay, still more, those members of the body which seem to be weak, are necessary;

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What do I say then? That what is offered in sacrifice to idols is anything? Or that an idol is anything?

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

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In that state, brethren, in which he was called, let every one remain with God.

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for there must be also parties among you, that they who are approved may also become manifest among you.

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while our seemly parts have no need. But God so put the body together, as to give special honor to that part which lacked,

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that there might be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care 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 the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

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For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, still I have been intrusted with a stewardship.

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For he that was called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lords freeman. In like manner the freeman, who is called, is Christs slave.

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For in the first place, when ye come together in assembly of the church, I hear that there are divisions among you; and I partly believe it;

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and to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those under the Law, as under the Law, not being myself under the Law, that I might gain those under the Law;

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

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For, when ye eat, every one taketh before any distribution his own supper, and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

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I think, then, that it is well, on account of the impending distress, for a man to remain as he is.

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

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When ye come together then in the same place, there is no eating of the Lords supper.

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But if any one build upon this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble,

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

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

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I would that all men were as I myself; but every one hath his own gift from God, one man this, and another that.

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The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand.

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

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

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Even to this very hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace,

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

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In the Law it is written: "With men of other tongues and with other lips will I speak to this people,

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The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Prisca, with the church that is in their house, send you many salutations in the Lord.

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the work of every one will be made manifest; for the day will show it; because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will prove what every ones work is.

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Whatever is sold in the market that eat, without asking questions for the sake of conscience;

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

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and what we think to be less honorable parts of the body, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our unseemly parts have more abundant seemliness;

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If the work which any one built thereon remaineth, he will receive reward;

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and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord." Wherefore the tongues are for a sign, not to believers, but to unbelievers; but prophesying is not for unbelievers, but for believers.

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

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

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

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Ye know, that when ye were gentiles, ye were carried away to dumb idols, as ye happened to be led;

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And if one who is an unbeliever inviteth you to a feast, and ye choose to go, eat whatever is set before you, without asking any questions for the sake of conscience.

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If therefore the whole church be assembled in one place, and all be speaking with tongues, and there come in those who are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?

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Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles?

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

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

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For I, for my part, though absent in the body, yet present in the spirit have already determined, as if I were present with you, respecting him who thus wrought this deed,

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

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if any one think that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing yet, as he ought to know;

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

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The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you.

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if any ones work shall be burned up, he will lose the reward; but he will be saved himself, yet as one escaping through fire.

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For though there are those that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth; as there are gods many, and lords many;

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

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if anything be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first speaker be silent.

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and all ate the same spiritual food,

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

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Or am I alone and Barnabas bound to labor with our own hands?

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But if all prophesy, and there come in one that is an unbeliever, or unlearned, he is convinced by all, he is searched through by all,

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

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And I do all for the sake of the gospel, that I may with others partake of it.

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If any one speak in an [unknown] tongue, let it be by two, or, at the most, by three, and in turn; and let one interpret.

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yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might also instruct others, than ten thousand words in an [unknown] tongue.

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This is my answer to those who question my authority.

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

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

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

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

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

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and again: "The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain."

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But I shall come to you shortly, if it be the Lords will, and will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power;

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

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Have we not a right to eat and drink?

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But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.

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For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and some are falling asleep.

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

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for he that eateth and drinketh eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, if he do not discern the body.

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in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

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

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and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank of the spiritual rock that accompanied them; and the rock was Christ;

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

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I protest, brethren, by my glorying in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, that I die daily.

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

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to the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak; I have become all things to all, that I might by all means save some.

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So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then will be brought to pass that which is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory."

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

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

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

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but I beat down my body, and bring it into subjection, lest perhaps, when I have been a herald to others, I should myself be rejected as unworthy.

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

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

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

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Every man that prayeth or prophesieth having his head covered, dishonoreth his head.

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

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Concerning the eating of the things offered in sacrifice to idols, then, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

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If then ye have any causes relating to this life, set them to judge who are of no repute in the church.

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

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

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But all these worketh the one and selfsame Spirit, allotting to each one severally as it will.

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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 is Paul, but ministers through whom ye believed, and that as the Lord gave to each?

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

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

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Nay, brother goeth to law with brother, and that before unbelievers.

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to deliver such a man over to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

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and I would have you free from anxious cares. He that is unmarried careth about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

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for "he put all things under his feet." But when it is said that all things have been put under him, it is manifest that he who put all things under him is excepted.

329

He that speaketh in an [unknown] tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.

330

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

332

In like manner also the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new covenant, in my blood; this do, as oft as ye drink, in remembrance of me.

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doth not behave herself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, maketh no account of an injury,

337

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

341

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

342

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

343

If with the views of men I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me? If the dead rise not, "let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."

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And when all things have been put under him, then will also the Son himself become subject to him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

346

How stands it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also; I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

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For if I pray in an [unknown] tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.

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the secrets of his heart become manifest; and so falling down on his face, he will worship God, and report that God is indeed within you.

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

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But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoreth her head; for it is one and the same thing as if her head were shaved.

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

361

What will ye? Am I to come to you with a rod, or in love, and the spirit of mildness?

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For he that speaketh in an [unknown] tongue speaketh not to men, but to God; for no one heareth; but in the Spirit he speaketh mysteries;

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After that, he appeared to more than five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain until now, but some have fallen asleep.

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I would that ye all spoke with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied; for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, unless he interpret, that the church may receive edification.

368

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

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Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord; but I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

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But let every one continue to walk in the lot which the Lord appointed him, in the condition in which God called him. And this direction I give in all the churches.

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For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

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After that, he appeared to James; then to all the apostles.

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Doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man have long hair, it is a shame to him,

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

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And I exhort you, brethren,ye know the family of Stephanas, that they are the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the service of the holy,

381

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it is written: "He that taketh the wise in their craftiness;"

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Let no one deceive himself; if any one thinketh himself wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

387

And even things without life that give sound, whether pipe or harp, if they make no distinction in the sounds, how shall that be known which is piped or harped?

388

And last of all, as to one born out of due time, he appeared also to me.

389

But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by teaching?

392

If any one thinketh himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him know surely that the directions I am writing to you are the Lords;

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

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Wherefore, brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues;

397

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

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Wherefore let him that speaketh in an [unknown] tongue pray that he may interpret.

399

But if any one thinketh that he behaveth improperly in respect to his virgin [daughter], if she pass the flower of her age [without being married], and if it must be so, let him do what he will, he committeth no sin; let them marry.

400

But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then Christ hath not risen;

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For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who will prepare himself for the battle?

403

Why also do we stand in peril every hour?

404

If then I know not the meaning of the language, I shall be to him that speaketh a foreigner, and he that speaketh a foreigner to me.

405

What! Did the word of God come forth from you? Or did it come to you alone?

406

Now I will come to you, when I have passed through Macedonia; for I am about to pass through Macedonia;

407

And we are also found false witnesses concerning God; because we testified concerning God that he raised up Christ, whom he did not raise up, if so be that the dead rise not.

408

But I shall remain at Ephesus until the Pentecost;

409

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

410

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

411

Now if Timothy come, see that he be with you without fear; for he is laboring in the work of the Lord, as I am;

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There are, it may be, so many kinds of languages in the world, and not one is without meaning.

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If any one hunger, let him eat at home; that ye may not come together to condemnation. And the rest I will set in order when I come.

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

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So also ye, unless ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall that be known which is spoken? For ye will be speaking into the air.

420

As regards Apollos, the brother, I urged him much to come to you with the brethren; and it was not at all his will to come at this time; but he will come when he hath a convenient opportunity.

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that ye submit yourselves to such as they are, and to every one that worketh with us, and laboreth.

422

And when I am with you, I will send with letters whomever you may approve to carry your bounty to Jerusalem;

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

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

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For I am unwilling to see you now in passing; for I hope to stay some time with you if the Lord permit.

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and if it be worth while for me to go also, they shall go with me.

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and perhaps I may remain, or even spend the winter with you, that ye may set me forward on my journey whithersoever I may be going.

429

but if any one be ignorant, let him be ignorant!

430

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

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but God giveth it a body, as he willed, and to every seed its own body.

433

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

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and what thou sowest, not the body that shall be dost thou sow, but a bare grain, of wheat perhaps, or of some of the other grains;

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let no one therefore despise him. But conduct him on in peace, that he may come to me; for I am waiting for him with the brethren.

436

As was the earthy, such are they also that are earthy; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly;

437

But if any one is settled in his purpose, and is under no necessity, but is free to act as he will, and hath determined in his heart to keep his own virgin daughter [unmarried], he doeth well.