What! know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor sodomites,

For in the first place I delivered to you, that which I also received, to wit, that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures:

Charity beareth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity is not insolent, is not puffed up,

What! know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have from God?

No temptation has yet taken you but what is common to man: and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able to sustain; but will with the temptation also make a way of escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached to you at first, which ye received, and wherein ye stand.

For if I speak with the tongues of men and angels, and have not charity, I am but as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

For the doctrine of the cross is to them, that perish, foolishness: but to us, who are saved, it is the power of God.

For as the body is one, and hath many members; but all the parts of this one body, though many, are but one body:

But this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor doth what is corruptible inherit incorruption.

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

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

For when one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos, are ye not carnal?

And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

Do ye not know that ye are the temple of God, and the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

so also is the mystical body of Christ; for by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, (whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free) and are all made to drink into one Spirit:

But as it is written, "Eye hath not seen, and ear hath not heard, nor have entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for those that love Him."

Behold, I tell you a mystery: we shall not all sleep; but we shall all be changed in a moment,

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

Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit: and there are different offices, but the same Lord:

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye would all say alike, and that there may be no schisms among you, but that ye be perfectly united in the same mind and in the same judgement.

or doth He say this indeed for our sakes? For it is certainly written for our sakes, that he, who ploweth, might plow in hope; and that he, who thresheth in hope, should partake of his hope.

For as the woman was originally from the man, so also is the man by the woman: but all things are from God.

Know ye not, that those, who run in a race, do all indeed run, but one only receiveth the prize? So run that ye may obtain.

Now concerning spiritual gifts, my brethren, I would not have you ignorant.

But ye are of Him in Christ Jesus, who from God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

But see that this liberty of yours be not by any means a stumbling-block to the weak.

for the body is not one member, but many.

even to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, and called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is both their Lord and ours;

But now Christ is risen from the dead, and is become the first-fruits of them that slept:

Now as to the things concerning which ye wrote to me: it were good for a man not to touch a woman.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, since ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

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

And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three graces; but the greatest of these is love.

and lords many,) 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 know that Christ is the head of every man; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

Wherefore let us keep the feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavening of sincerity and truth.

Now there is certainly a fault among you, that ye have law-suits with one another: why do ye not rather endure wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

For we see now as through a mirror obscurely: but then we shall see face to face. Now I know but in part, but then I shall know even as I am known.

Let your women be silent in your assemblies: for it is not permitted to them to speak, but they are to be in subjection, as the law saith.

Be ye then imitators of me, as I also am of Christ.

For no one can lay any other foundation, but that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ: and if any build upon this foundation gold,

But God hath revealed them to us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, even the deep things of God.

But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the advantage of all.

Flee from whoredom. Every other sin, that a man committeth, is without the body; but he, that committeth whoredom, sinneth against his own body.

Charity never faileth: but as to prophecies, they shall be abolished; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be laid aside.

For though I am free from all, yet I have made myself a servant to all, that I might gain the more.

Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new mass, without leaven. For our paschal lamb, even Christ, was slain for us.

---The cup of blessing 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?

And I, my brethren, could not speak to you, as to spiritual persons, but as to carnal ones, even as to babes in Christ.

If we then have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we reap your carnal things?

But if they have not the gift of continence, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with lust.

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be under the power of any:

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

in all utterance and knowledge;

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

It is commonly reported that there is lewdness among you, and such lewdness as is not named even amongst the heathens, that one should have his father's wife.

Let a man so account of us, as the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Now ye are the body of Christ, and his members each of you in particular.

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit of God; that we might know the things that are graciously bestowed upon us by God:

for God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as we see in all the assemblies of the saints.

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

And so it is written, "The first man Adam was made a living soul." But the last Adam is an enlivening spirit.

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, to the church of God which is in Corinth,

For if the dead rise not, then Christ is not raised:

Labour after charity, and be desirous of spiritual gifts: but especially that ye may prophesy.

And God hath placed you accordingly in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miraculous powers, then gifts of healing, helps, governments, and various kinds of tongues.

Then will be the end, when He shall have delivered up the kingdom to God even the Father; when He shall have abolished all rule, and all authority, and power.

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

And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the spirit of our God.

Now I commend you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.

And I, when I came among you, brethren, came not with excellency of language, or of human wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God:

Now as to things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge about them. Knowledge however puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

(even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed among you;)

Upon the first day of the week let every one of you set apart something, putting it into the treasury, according as he is prospered: that there may be no need of collections, when I come.

but God hath chosen things that are foolish in the eye of the world to put it's wise men to confusion; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the mighty;

who will also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ;

For, since in the wisdom of God the world by it's wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by what they called the folly of preaching to save those that believe.

For ye see by your calling, brethren, that not many wise men according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called:

Be not deceived, bad conversations corrupt good morals.

Judge in yourselves, Is it decent for a woman to pray to God uncovered?

Be watchful, stand fast in the faith, behave like men, be strong:

What is then to be done, my brethren? when ye come together, if any of you hath a psalm, a doctrine, a tongue, a revelation, an interpretation,---let all be done for edification.

For I have been informed concerning you, my brethren, by some of Chloe's family, that there are contentions among you.

Wherefore let him, that thinks he standeth, take heed least he fall.

I must acquaint you, that no one speaking by the Spirit of God, calleth Jesus a curse: and no one can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the holy Ghost.

But whilst I am declaring this, I do not commend you, that ye assemble together not for the better, but for the worse.

Dare any of you, having a matter of complaint against another, try it before the unjust, and not before the saints?

Yet we speak true wisdom among the perfect: though not the wisdom of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who come to nought.

but I did not mean not at all with the whoremongers of this world, or the covetous, or rapacious, or idolaters: since ye must then go out of the world.

Now all these things happened to them as examples: and are written for our admonition, on whom the last ages are come.

Wherefore judge nothing before the time; even until the Lord come, who will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every one have praise from God.

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

and ye are not your own, for ye are bought with a price. Glorify God therefore in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

According to the grace of God given to me, as a wise architect I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon: but let every one see to it how he buildeth thereon.

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in fine speech, least the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.

I wrote to you in an epistle, not to associate with whoremongers:

So that whosoever eateth this bread, or drinketh of the cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord.

for I did not think it meet to know any thing among you, but Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.

which we also speak of, not in words dictated by human wisdom, but in those which are dictated by the holy Spirit; explaining spiritual things by spiritual words.

I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus: for what was wanting in you, they have made up.

but if a woman have long hair it is a glory to her; because the hair was given her as for a veil.

Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized into the name of Paul?

and gave thanks, and brake it, and said, "Take and eat; this is my body, which is going to be broken for you: this do in remembrance of me."

But those that are married, not I command, but the Lord, that the wife be not separated from her husband;

But ye do wrong and defraud, and that even your brethren.

I mean, that each of you saith, as if of different parties, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, I of Cephas, and I of Christ.

But if any one is pleased to contend for the contrary, I answer, We have no such custom, nor any of the churches of God.

(but if she separate, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband;) and that the husband put not away his wife.

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

Consider Israel according to the flesh, Are not they, that eat of the sacrifices, partakers of the altar?

For the bread is one, and we though many are one body; for we all partake of that one bread.

and so the weak brother, for whom Christ died, shall perish by thy knowledge?

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband: else were your children unclean; but they are holy.

If others partake of this power over you, may not we rather? though we have not used this power; but we bear all things, least we should cause any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

I thank God that 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?

For if thou bless in the spirit, how shall the unlearned say Amen to thy thanksgiving, when he knoweth not what thou sayst?

I also baptized indeed the family of Stephanas: but I know not whether I baptized any other.

Do ye not know, that they who are employed about the sacrifices have their food from the temple? and they, who attend at the altar, are partakers with 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 to you as to men of understanding: and judge ye what I say,

And if any wife hath an unbelieving husband, and he like to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

But in thus sinning against your brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ:

so that no one can say I baptized in my own name.

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

And he that planteth, and he that watereth, are as one: but each shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.

And whereas the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks look for wisdom, we preach Christ crucified;

For they have refreshed my spirit as well as yours: have a due regard therefore to such worthy persons.

But now God hath placed the members, every one of them in the body, as He pleased.

Ye are now full, ye are now rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I wish ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

So that neither he that planteth is any thing, nor he that watereth, but God that giveth the increase.

wherefore if meat make my brother to offend, I will never eat flesh while I breathe, least I make my brother to offend.

whereas now there are many members, yet but one body.

So also the Lord hath ordained, that those who preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel.

But those who are without, God judgeth: and therefore put away the wicked one from among you.

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 in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

We are made as the filth of the world, and the refuse of all things to this day.

For it seems to me that God hath as it were exhibited us the apostles last upon the stage as appointed to death; for we are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels and to men.

Is any one called that is circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised: is any one called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised: for circumcision is nothing,

And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

But God hath called us to peace; for how knowest thou, O wife, but thou shalt save thy husband; or how knowest thou, O husband, but thou shalt save thy wife?

But I have availed myself of none of these things. Nor have I written these things, that it might be so done as to me: for it were better for me to die, than that any one should make this my glorying void.

But this I say, brethren, that the time is short: it remains therefore, that even those, who have wives, be as though they had none;

For what have I to do to judge those that are without? and do not ye judge those that are within?

Wast thou called being a slave, be not anxious about it; but if thou canst be made free, prefer it.

But those parts of the body, which seem to be weaker, are much more necessary:

What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that what is sacrificed to an idol is in itself any thing to stumble at?

Ye are bought with a price, do not become the slaves of men.

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

Brethren, in whatever condition every one was when called, let him abide therein with God.

I thank God, I speak with tongues more than you all.

We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ: we are weak, but ye are strong: ye are honoured, but we are despised.

For there must be even heresies among you, that they who are approved may be made manifest among you.

But God hath so blended the several parts of the body, giving greater honor to that which was deficient,

that there might be no schism in the body; but that all the members might have the same care one for another.

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

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

Now if I do this willingly, I have a reward; and if unwillingly, yet I am intrusted with the commission, and I must execute it.

Then they also that sleep in Christ, are perished.

For he that is called in the Lord being a slave, is the Lord's freed-man: and he likewise that is called being free is the servant of Christ.

For first when ye come together in the church, I hear there are divisions among you, and I partly believe it.

And I would not have you partakers with demons. Ye cannot drink of the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: ye cannot be partakers of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.

and they, that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

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

and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God.

In the calling in which every one was called, let him continue.

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

for in eating every one takes his own supper first; and one is hungry, and another is glutted.

I think then, that it is---better on account of the present distress,---that it is better, I say,

for a single man to be so. Art thou bound to a wife indeed? seek not to be loosed: but art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

When therefore ye thus assemble together, this is not eating the Lord's supper:

silver, precious stones, or wood, hay, stubble;

that, as it is written, He that glorieth may glory in the Lord.

and to those without the law as without the law, (not being without law to God, but under the law to Christ) that I might gain those who are without the law.

have all miraculous powers? have all the gifts of healing? do all speak many languages? do all interpret? but ye are all zealous for the best gifts.

and things in the opinion of the world ignoble, and despicable, and accounted as nothing, hath God chosen, to abolish things that are in esteem among men;

Though, if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned: such however will probably have more trouble in life: but I spare you.

for I could wish that all men were as I myself am; but every man hath his proper gift from God, one of one kind and another of another?

The salutation of me Paul I write with my own hand.

The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband; and in like manner also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

What! have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or do ye despise the church of God, and shame those that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.

Even to this present time we suffer both hunger, and thirst, and nakedness, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling:

Conscience I say, not thy own, but the other's; for why is my liberty to be judged by another man's conscience?

It is written in the law, "By men of another language, and by other lips, will I speak to this people, and even so they will not listen to me, saith the Lord."

The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla, with the church in their house, salute you in the Lord with much affection:

What is my reward then but this? that when I preach I may make the gospel of Christ not expensive, that so I may not abuse my power in the gospel.

as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

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

every man's work shall be made manifest. For the great day will shew it; because it will be discovered by fire, and the fire will prove every man's work of what sort it is.

Eat then whatever is sold in the shambles, asking no questions for conscience sake:

And if I partake with thankfulness, why am I blamed for that, for which I give thanks?

I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me.

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

and those which we judge the less honorable parts we clothe with more abundant honor; and so our less comely parts have more comeliness added to them, of which our comely ones have no need.

If any man's work abide, which he hath built upon it, he shall receive a reward:

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

And are ye puffed up, and have not rather grieved? that he who hath committed this fact might be expelled from among you?

that no flesh may glory in his presence.

and were all baptized into Moses by the cloud and by the sea;

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

when ye are assembled together with my spirit, by the power, I say,

Ye know that ye were Gentiles, drawn aside after dumb idols, just as ye were led: wherefore,

and if any of the unbelievers invite you to an entertainment, and ye have a mind to go, whatever is set before you, eat, asking no questions for conscience-sake.

If then the whole church be come together and all speak in unknown tongues, and there come in illiterate persons, or infidels, will they not say that ye are mad?

Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers?

But if any one say to you, This hath been sacrificed to an idol,---eat it not; for his sake who informed thee, and for conscience-sake: for, as I said, the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof, so that thou mayst have food enough without it.

Now these things were examples for us, that we might not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

For I indeed, absent in body, but present in spirit, have already, as if I were present, judged him who hath wrought this wickedness: in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

and we labour working with our own hands. When we are reviled, we bless: when persecuted, we bear it: when defamed, we intreat.

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

And let but two or three of the prophets speak, and the others judge.

And if any one be conceited of his knowledge, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.

And as God hath raised up the Lord, so will He raise up us by his power.

My brethren, be not children in sense: but in malice be infants, and in your judgements shew yourselves to be men.

or saith not the law the same also? for it is written in the law of Moses, "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn." Now doth God take care for oxen,

Maran-atha. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

but if any man's work be burnt, he will be damaged; though he himself shall be saved, but, as it were out of fire.

and there are diversities of operations,

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

For though there be some that are called Gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are among the heathen gods many,

Now some are puffed up, as if I would not come to you.

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

Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted Him, and were destroyed by serpents: nor murmur,

And if any thing be revealed to another sitting by, let the first have done speaking before the other begins.

but it is the same God who worketh them all in every one.

and did all eat the same spiritual food;

But with the greater part of them God was displeased: for they were destroyed in the wilderness.

I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I admonish you:

Or is it I only and Barnabas, that have not power to forbear working?

But if all prophesy, and there come in an unbeliever, or one unlearned, he is convinced by all, he is judged by all.

Who ever goes a warfare at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and doth not eat of the fruit of it? or who feedeth a flock, and doth not eat of the milk of the flock?

I therefore so run, not as unobserved: I so fight, not as one that beateth the air:

My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.

And this I do for the sake of the gospel, that I may be a fellow partaker of it.

And if any one speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at most by three, and that by turns; and let one interpret.

But in a public assembly I had rather speak five words to be understood, that I may instruct others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

And this is my answer to them that call me to account: have we not power to eat and to drink?

for if ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet ye have not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you by the gospel.

God forbid! What! know ye not that he who is joined to an harlot is one body with her? for these two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

But there is not in all men this knowledge: and some with a consciousness of the idol unto this day, eat it as a thing sacrificed to an idol, and so their conscience being weak is defiled.

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

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

But meat does not recommend us to God; for neither, if we eat, are we the better; nor the worse, if we eat not.

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

Whereas the spiritual man discerneth all things, yet is himself discerned by no one.

If any one destroy the temple of God, him will God destroy: for the temple of God is holy, and this temple are ye.

But if any man love God, he is owned by Him.

I have fed you with milk, and not with meat; for ye were not hitherto able to bear it, nor yet are ye even now able.

But I will come to you soon, if the Lord please, and will know, not the speech of them that are puffed up, but the power:

Do I speak these things as a man only?

And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets:

have

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

Therefore let no one glory in men: for all things are yours;

For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.

And he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

Because ye are still carnal: for while there is among you envy and strife and divisions, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk as men?

For this reason ought the woman to have power on her head, because of the angels.

I always give thanks unto my God, on your account, for the grace of God bestowed on you in Christ Jesus; that ye are enriched by Him with every gift,

For this many among you are weak and infirm, and several are fallen asleep.

For this end have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved son and faithful in the Lord, who will bring to your remembrance my ways in Christ, how I teach every where in every church.

Know ye not that we shall judge angels? what! and not worthy of judging the affairs of this life?

Nevertheless, neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man, in the Lord.

for he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgement against himself, not distinguishing the Lord's body.

For we are fellow-laborers, the servants of God: and ye are the husbandry of God, ye are the building of God.

For he must reign till He hath put all his enemies under his feet.

but thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

in the twinkling of an eye, at the sound of the last trumpet (for the trumpet shall sound) and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed:

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

for as by man came death, by man cometh also the resurrection of the dead.

and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.

to the Jews indeed a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness; but to them that are called,

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

and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them: and that rock was an emblem of Christ.

for the kingdom of God consisteth not in speech, but in power.

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his favor to me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;

Besides, what shall they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why then are they baptized for the dead?

I protest by your rejoicing, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, that I am even dying daily.

For if I preach the gospel, yet I have no ground for boasting; because I am under necessity to do it: and wo is me if I do not preach the Gospel.

To the weak I became as the weak, that I might gain the weak: I became all things to all men, that I might by every means save some.

If then we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged:

And when this corruptible shall be clothed with incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the word that is written, "Death is swallowed up in victory."

If all things be lawful for me, yet all things are not expedient: all things may be lawful for me, but all things do not edify.

For who hath known the mind of the Lord, to instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

(for I am conscious to myself of nothing; though I am not hereby justified;) but He that judgeth me is the Lord.

By which also ye are saved, if ye retain it as I preached it to you: unless indeed ye have believed in vain.

But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, that hidden wisdom which God ordained before the worlds for our glory:

For who among men knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man which is in him? so also the things of God no one knoweth, but the Spirit of God.

but I mortify my body and bring it into subjection, least after having preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

Do ye not know that a little leaven leaveneth the whole mass?

and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day, according to the scriptures.

For if a woman be not covered, she may as well be shorn: but if it be shameful to a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.

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

Every man praying or prophesying, having a veil on his head, dishonoureth Him who is his head.

But to me it is of very small moment to be judged by you, or by any man's judgement; nor indeed do I judge myself:

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

Therefore if ye have controversies about the things of this life, do ye set them to judge, who are despised by the church?

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

For the man was not of the woman; but the woman was taken out of the man:

So also will be the resurrection of the dead. Our body is sown in corruption, it is raised incorruptible: it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory:

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

Behave inoffensively both to the Jews, and to the Greeks, and to the church of God.

But now I have written to you, not to associate with him, if any one, that is called a brother, be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious; with such a one no not to eat.

But he, that prophesieth, speaketh edification, and exhortation, and comfort to men.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, flee from idolatry.

for God is faithful by whom ye were called into the communion of his son Jesus Christ our Lord.

Now it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

And my discourse, and my preaching was not with the persuasive words of human wisdom, but in the demonstration of the Spirit and of power;

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and am acquainted with all mysteries, and all knowledge: yea if I have faith, even. to remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

but all these worketh that one and the same Spirit distributing to every one in particular as He sees fit.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned as a child: but when I became a man, I laid aside childish things.

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

Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whose means ye embraced the faith, even as the Lord gave success to each of them?

These things, my brethren, I have by a figure transferred to myself, and Apollos, for your sakes, that ye may learn in us not to be wise above what is written, that ye may not be puffed up for one against another.

I speak it to your shame. What! is there not one wise man among you, that is able to judge between his bretheren?

Nevertheless to prevent whoredoms, let every one have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

But one brother goeth to law with another, and this before infidels.

of our Lord Jesus Christ, to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your boasting is not good.

The last enemy that is destroyed is death:

And I would have you without anxiety. Now he, that is unmarried, careth for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; but he,

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.

for He hath put all things under his feet. But when He saith that all things are put under Him, it is plain that we are to except Him who put all things under Him.

He, that speaketh in an unknown tongue, edifieth himself: but he, that prophesieth, edifieth the church.

Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputant of the age? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

Let the husband render to the wife due benevolence; and in like manner also the wife to the husband.

And in the same manner He took the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant ratified in my blood: this do, as often as ye drink of it, in remembrance of me."

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of this bread and drink of this cup:

so that ye are deficient in no gift, expecting the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ:

doth not behave indecently, is not selfish, is not easily provoked,

So ye also, since ye are so desirous of spiritual gifts, seek to abound in them to the edification of the church.

No: but this I say, that what the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God.

covereth all faults, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

For who maketh thee to differ? and what hast thou, which thou didst not receive? And if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it?

Do not withdraw from one another, unless by consent for a season, that ye may attend to fasting and prayer: and come together again, least Satan tempt you through your incontinency.

Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of an harlot?

not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

If, to speak as a man, I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage have I, if the dead rise not? Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die. ---

But each in their proper order: the first-fruits, Christ; afterwards they that are Christ's, at his coming.

And when all things shall be subjected to Him, then shall the Son also himself be subject to Him, that put all things under Him, that God may be all in all.

What is then to be done? I will pray with the Spirit, but I will pray to be understood: I will sing with the spirit, but I will sing to be understood.

For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit indeed prayeth, but my meaning is fruitless.

And though I give all my substance to feed the poor, and my body to be burnt, and have not charity, I am nothing profited.

Though I will shew you a way yet more excellent.

And every one that enters the lists is temperate in all things: they indeed do it that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible one.

but let all things be done decently and in order.

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth: but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will, only in the Lord:

to another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another the discerning of spirits; to another various kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:

And thus the secrets of his heart are made manifest; so that falling down upon his face he will worship God, declaring that God is indeed among you.

But to the rest say I, not the Lord, If any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she like to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonoureth man her head; for it is even all one as if she were shaved.

Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy of judging the smallest controversies?

For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, he being the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

For now we know but in part, and we prophesy but in part.

nor was the man created for the sake of the woman, but the woman for the man.

What do ye chuse? that I should come to you with a rod? or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?

For he, that speaketh in an unknown tongue, speaketh not to men, but to God: for no one understandeth, though in spirit he speaketh mysteries.

Because the foolishness of God, as they call it, is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

after that He appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain yet alive, but some are fallen asleep.

I could wish that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edification.

suspecteth no evil, rejoiceth not at injustice, but rejoiceth in the truth:

meats are for the belly, and the belly for meats, but God will destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

we not power to lead about with us a sister a wife as well as other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

But concerning single persons I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgement as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

and if Christ be not risen, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

If any one love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be made a curse.

However, as God hath distributed to every man, and as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk: and thus I order in all the churches.

Let no one seek his own only, but every one another's benefit.

for this corruptible body must put on incorruption, and this mortal body must be clothed with immortality.

which none of the rulers of this age knew; for if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

Afterwards He was seen by James, then by all the apostles.

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

it is sown an animal body, it is raised a spiritual body: for there is an animal body, and there is a spiritual body.

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