And it came to pass while Apollos was at Corinth, for Paul, having passed through the upper regions, to come to Ephesus. And having found some disciples,

And this happened for two years, so as for all those dwelling in Asia to hear the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.

Therefore watch ye, remembering that for three years, night and day, I did not cease warning each one with tears.

For it was declared to me about you, my brothers, by those of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

But I will come to you when I pass through Macedonia, for I do pass through Macedonia.

But I will remain at Ephesus until Pentecost.

But I will remain at Ephesus until Pentecost.

And I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus, because these men filled your lack.

For out of much stress and dismay of heart, through many tears, I wrote to you, not that ye would be grieved, but that ye might know the love that I have so much more for you.

I had no rest in my spirit, my not finding Titus my brother. But having departed from them, I went forth into Macedonia.

for us to urge Titus that, as he earlier began this kindness, so he would even finish it for you also.

But thanks to God who gives the same eagerness for you in the heart of Titus. Because he indeed accepted the exhortation, but his own will being more zealous, he went forth to you. read more. And we sent along with him the brother whose praise in the good-news is throughout all the congregations.

those who pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek. And a man and his father go to the [same] maiden, to profane my holy name.

And every man who hears these sayings of mine, and does not do them, will be compared to a foolish man who built his house upon the sand.

for he was teaching them as having authority, and not as their scholars.

Truly I say to you, among men born of women there has not been raised a greater than John the immerser. Yet the smaller in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he.

But he said to them, Not all men can accommodate this saying, but to whom it has been given.

And having appointed elders for them in every congregation, having prayed with fasting, they entrusted them to the Lord, in whom they had believed.

to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication, keeping yourselves from which, ye will do well. Be strong.

And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple of the city of Thyatira, a woman who worshiped God, was listening, whose heart the Lord opened to heed the things being spoken by Paul.

And when both Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was being held by the Spirit, fully testifying to the Jews, Jesus the Christ.

And Crispus, the synagogue ruler, believed in the Lord with his whole household, and many of the Corinthians who heard believed, and were immersed.

But all the Greeks, having taken Sosthenes the synagogue ruler, were beating him in front of the judgment seat. And Gallio was not going to judge, even of these things.

Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by origin, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus, being mighty in the scriptures.

And having spent three months there, and a conspiracy having developed against him by Jews, intending to go up into Syria, a decision developed to return through Macedonia.

And having spent three months there, and a conspiracy having developed against him by Jews, intending to go up into Syria, a decision developed to return through Macedonia.

And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came to them at Troas within five days, where we stayed seven days.

And from Miletus having sent to Ephesus, he summoned the elders of the congregation.

Now four virgin daughters who prophesied were with this man.

What will we say then? We continue in sin so that grace may abound?

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to over think beyond what he ought to think, but to think so as to think soundly, as God has apportioned to each man a measure of faith.

Timothy my co-workman, and Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.

For it was declared to me about you, my brothers, by those of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. Now I say this. That each of you actually say, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ.

Now I say this. That each of you actually say, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ. Has Christ been divided? Was Paul crucified for you, or were ye immersed in the name of Paul?

For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to preach the good-news, not in wisdom of speech lest the cross of Christ would be emptied.

Where is a wise man? Where is a scholar? Where is a researcher of this age? Did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world?

Where is a wise man? Where is a scholar? Where is a researcher of this age? Did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world?

but we proclaim Christ crucified, truly to Jews a stumbling-block and to Gentiles foolishness.

but we proclaim Christ crucified, truly to Jews a stumbling-block and to Gentiles foolishness.

For notice your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to flesh, not many powerful, not many eminent.

And I, brothers, when I came to you, came not in eminence of speech or of wisdom proclaiming the testimony of God to you.

But we speak wisdom among the fully developed, but not a wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age who come to nothing.

Which things also we speak, not in things learned from mankind, in words of wisdom, but in things learned from Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

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

Now these things, brothers, I applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that in us ye might learn not to think above that which is written, so that ye may not be puffed up, one over the one against the other.

being slandered, we entreat. We became as trash of the world, an offscouring of all things, until now.

to deliver such a man to Satan for destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

I wrote to you in the letter not to associate with fornicators, and not at all with the fornicators of this world, or with greedy men, or with predators, or with idolaters, since then ye would need to go out of the world.

For what is in me to also judge those outside? Do ye not judge those inside?

Dare any of you, having a matter against the other, go to law before the unrighteous and not before the sanctified? Or know ye not that the sanctified will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of very small legal disputes?

Or know ye not that the sanctified will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of very small legal disputes? Know ye not that we will judge heavenly agents? Then why not mundane things? read more. Indeed therefore whenever ye have mundane legal disputes, men who are disdained by the church, these ye seat to judge. I speak shame about you. So there is not among you not even one wise man who will be able to arbitrate between his brother? But brother goes to law against brother, and this before unbelievers? Now therefore it is indeed altogether a defeat for you because ye have legal disputes against yourselves. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded? Instead ye do wrong, and defraud, and these things to brothers.

And some of you were these things, but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were made righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God. All things are lawful for me, but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under control by anything.

All things are lawful for me, but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under control by anything. The foods are for the belly and the belly for foods, but God will abolish both this and these things. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. read more. And God both raised up the Lord and will raise us up through his power. Know ye not that your bodies are body-parts of Christ? Therefore, having taken the body-parts of the Christ, should I make them body-parts of a harlot? May it not happen!

Know ye not that your bodies are body-parts of Christ? Therefore, having taken the body-parts of the Christ, should I make them body-parts of a harlot? May it not happen! Or know ye not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For, The two, he says, will be in one flesh. read more. But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit. Flee fornication. Every sin, whatever a man may do, is outside the body, but he who fornicates sins against his own body. Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? And ye are not your own, for ye were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and your spirit, which is of God.

Now concerning the things of which ye wrote to me. It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

And to those who are married, I do not command but the Lord. The wife is not to separate from her husband.

Now concerning the virgins I have no commandment of Lord, but I give an opinion, as having obtained mercy from Lord to be trustworthy.

But she is more blessed if she remains this way according to my opinion. And I also seem to have Spirit of God.

Now about the things sacrificed to idols. We know that all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

For if some man sees thee, who have knowledge, dining in an idol-temple, will not his conscience, being weak, be strengthened to eat things sacrificed to idols? And by thy knowledge the brother, being weak, will be ruined, for whom Christ died. read more. And sinning this way against the brothers, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will no, not eat meat into the age, so that I may not cause my brother to stumble.

Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are ye not my work in Lord?

Have we no, not a right to lead about a sister wife, as also the other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

Who ever enlists in an army at his own wage? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat from the fruit of it? Or who feeds a flock and does not eat from the milk of the flock?

If others are partakers of the right from you, are not we more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we cover all things, so that we may not give any hindrance to the good-news of the Christ.

And so the Lord commanded those who proclaim the good-news to live from the good-news.

What then is my reward? That, while preaching the good-news, I may make the good-news of the Christ without charge, in order not to make full use of my right in the good-news.

Know ye not that those who run in an arena, indeed all run, but one receives the prize? So run that ye may seize it.

But I want you not to be ignorant, brothers, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,

and they all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank from a spiritual rock that followed them. And the rock was the Christ.

No temptation has taken you except is common to man. But God is faithful who will not allow you to be tempted above what ye are able, but with the temptation will also make the way to escape, to enable you to endure. Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

Become ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.

Become ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. Now I praise you, brothers, that ye remember me in all things and keep the traditions, just as I delivered them to you.

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for it is one and the same thing as the woman who has been shaven.

Because of this the woman ought to have authority over her head, because of the heavenly agents.

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

For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was betrayed took bread,

Ye know that, while Gentiles, ye were being carried away to the voiceless idols, as ye were led.

And in the church God has placed men who are first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, kinds of tongues.

As in all the churches of the sanctified, let the women keep silent in the churches. For it is not permitted for them to speak, but to be subordinate, as the law also says. And if they want to learn anything, let them question their own husbands at home, for it is an ugly thing for women to speak in an assembly.

Let all things be done decently and in order.

and that he was buried, and that he arose on the third day according to the scriptures,

Now if Christ is proclaimed that he has risen from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

Now concerning the collection for the sanctified, as I arranged for the congregations of Galatia, so also do ye.

And it may be that I will remain with you, or I will even spend winter, so that ye may set me on my way wherever I go.

And in this confidence I intended to come to you earlier, so that ye might have a second benefit,

But I call God for a witness upon my soul, that I did not yet come to Corinth, sparing you.

But their minds were hardened, for to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old testament, not being uncovered, which thing is abolished in Christ.

And so then although I wrote to you, it was not because of the man who did wrong, nor because of the man who was wronged, but in order to reveal to you your eagerness for us in the sight of God.

And in this I give judgment, for this is expedient for you who earlier began, from a year ago, not only the doing but also the intending.

For I know your willingness, which I boast about you to the Macedonians, that Achaia was prepared from a year ago. And your zeal provoked the majority.

Do ye look at things according to appearance. If any man has convinced himself to be of Christ, let him consider this again of himself, that, as he is of Christ, so also are we of Christ.

This third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two witnesses or three every saying will be confirmed.

Because a husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church, and himself the savior of the body.

Because a husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church, and himself the savior of the body.

Paul and Timothy, bondmen of Jesus Christ, to all the sanctified in Jesus Christ who are at Philippi, with the guardians and helpers:

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timothy the brother,

Therefore we wanted to come to you, indeed I, Paul, even once and again, and Satan hindered us.

of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, so that they may be disciplined not to blaspheme.

But I do not allow a woman to teach, nor to act autonomously from a man, but to be in quietness.

men who missed the mark about the truth, saying the resurrection happened already, and they overthrow the faith of some.

And after these things Paul having separated from Athens, he came to Corinth.

And he remained a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

And it came to pass while Apollos was at Corinth, for Paul, having passed through the upper regions, to come to Ephesus. And having found some disciples,

And this happened for two years, so as for all those dwelling in Asia to hear the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.

Therefore watch ye, remembering that for three years, night and day, I did not cease warning each one with tears.

But we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the spirit from God, so that we might know the things graciously given to us by God.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused growth.

But I will remain at Ephesus until Pentecost.