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

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.

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

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;

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

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."

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

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?

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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.

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.

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;

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;

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

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:

but she is happier, in my opinion, if she continue as she is: and I think I have the Spirit 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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?

Do I speak these things as a man only?

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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."

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

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

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

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

I speak to you as to men of understanding: and judge ye what I say,

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.

Even as I also endeavour to please all men in all things, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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."

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

and if any one be hungry, let him eat at home, that ye may not come together to your condemnation. And as to other things, I will set them in order when I come.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

As inanimate things which give a found, whether pipe or harp, unless they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall what is piped or harped be understood?

There are, it may be, as many kinds of voices in the world as people, and none of them insignificant.

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

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.

And if they would learn any thing, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it does not become women to speak in a public assembly.

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

And last of all He appeared to me also, as one born out of due time: for I am the lest of the apostles,

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

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

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. ---

Behave soberly, as ye ought to do, and sin not: for some of you have not the knowledge of God; to your shame I speak it.

And as to what thou sowest, thou sowest not the very body that shall be produced, but a bare grain, it may be, of wheat, or any other corn:

and God giveth it a body as He pleaseth, and to every one of the seeds it's own body.

Such as the earthy was, such are they also that are earthy: and such, as is the heavenly, are they also that are heavenly.

And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

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

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.

For I do not intend to see you now in my way, as I hope to stay some time with you, if the Lord permit.

If Timothy should come, see that he be with you without fear: for he is employed in the work of the Lord, as I also am.

Let no one therefore despise him: but forward him on his journey in peace, that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brethren. As to our brother Apollos,

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