For Christ did not send me to baptize, but -- to proclaim good news; not in wisdom of discourse, that the cross of the Christ may not be made of none effect;

but the foolish things of the world did God choose, that the wise He may put to shame; and the weak things of the world did God choose that He may put to shame the strong;

and my word and my preaching was not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power --

that your faith may not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

but we speak the hidden wisdom of God in a secret, that God foreordained before the ages to our glory,

but, according as it hath been written, 'What eye did not see, and ear did not hear, and upon the heart of man came not up, what God did prepare for those loving Him -- '

but to us did God reveal them through His Spirit, for the Spirit all things doth search, even the depths of God,

And we the spirit of the world did not receive, but the Spirit that is of God, that we may know the things conferred by God on us,

which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, with spiritual things spiritual things comparing,

And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly -- as to babes in Christ;

with milk I fed you, and not with meat, for ye were not yet able, but not even yet are ye now able,

Who, then, is Paul, and who Apollos, but ministrants through whom ye did believe, and to each as the Lord gave?

I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth;

so that neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is watering, but He who is giving growth -- God;

if of any the work is burned up, he shall suffer loss; and himself shall be saved, but so as through fire.

and to me it is for a very little thing that by you I may be judged, or by man's day, but not even myself do I judge,

for of nothing to myself have I been conscious, but not in this have I been declared right -- and he who is discerning me is the Lord:

Not as putting you to shame do I write these things, but as my beloved children I do admonish,

but I will come quickly unto you, if the Lord may will, and I will know not the word of those puffed up, but the power;

for not in word is the reign of God, but in power?

so that we may keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil and wickedness, but with unleavened food of sincerity and truth.

and those without God doth judge; and put ye away the evil from among yourselves.

but brother with brother doth go to be judged, and this before unbelievers!

but ye -- ye do injustice, and ye defraud, and these -- brethren!

And certain of you were these! but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were declared righteous, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I -- I will not be under authority by any;

the meats are for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body is not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

the wife over her own body hath not authority, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband over his own body hath not authority, but the wife.

for I wish all men to be even as I myself am; but each his own gift hath of God, one indeed thus, and one thus.

and to the married I announce -- not I, but the Lord -- let not a wife separate from a husband:

but and if she may separate, let her remain unmarried, or to the husband let her be reconciled, and let not a husband send away a wife.

for the unbelieving husband hath been sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife hath been sanctified in the husband; otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

the circumcision is nothing, and the uncircumcision is nothing -- but a keeping of the commands of God.

a servant -- wast thou called? be not anxious; but if also thou art able to become free -- use it rather;

with a price ye were bought, become not servants of men;

But and if thou mayest marry, thou didst not sin; and if the virgin may marry, she did not sin; and such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I spare you.

And this for your own profit I say: not that I may cast a noose upon you, but for the seemliness and devotedness to the Lord, undistractedly,

And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up;

but not in all men is the knowledge, and certain with conscience of the idol, till now, as a thing sacrificed to an idol do eat it, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

But victuals do not commend us to God, for neither if we may eat are we in advance; nor if we may not eat, are we behind;

but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,

if others do partake of the authority over you -- not we more? but we did not use this authority, but all things we bear, that we may give no hindrance to the good news of the Christ.

to those without law, as without law -- (not being without law to God, but within law to Christ) -- that I might gain those without law;

have ye not known that those running in a race -- all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain;

and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible;

but I chastise my body, and bring it into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others -- I myself may become disapproved.

but in the most of them God was not well pleased, for they were strewn in the wilderness,

No temptation hath taken you -- except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear it.

no, but that the things that the nations sacrifice -- they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not wish you to come into the fellowship of the demons.

All things to me are lawful, but all things are not profitable; all things to me are lawful, but all things do not build up;

let no one seek his own -- but each another's.

and conscience, I say, not of thyself, but of the other, for why is it that my liberty is judged by another's conscience?

as I also in all things do please all, not seeking my own profit, but that of many -- that they may be saved.

for a man is not of a woman, but a woman is of a man,

for a man also was not created because of the woman, but a woman because of the man;

but neither is a man apart from a woman, nor a woman apart from a man, in the Lord,

And this declaring, I give no praise, because not for the better, but for the worse ye come together;

for also the body is not one member, but many;

But much more the members of the body which seem to be more infirm are necessary,

and those that we think to be less honourable of the body, around these we put more abundant honour, and our unseemly things have seemliness more abundant,

and our seemly things have no need; but God did temper the body together, to the lacking part having given more abundant honour,

that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same anxiety for one another,

for he who is speaking in an unknown tongue -- to men he doth not speak, but to God, for no one doth hearken, and in spirit he doth speak secrets;

for thou, indeed, dost give thanks well, but the other is not built up!

but in an assembly I wish to speak five words through my understanding, that others also I may instruct, rather than myriads of words in an unknown tongue.

Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;

so that the tongues are for a sign, not to the believing, but to the unbelieving; and the prophesy is not for the unbelieving, but for the believing,

for God is not a God of tumult, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

Your women in the assemblies let them be silent, for it hath not been permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith;

and by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace that is towards me came not in vain, but more abundantly than they all did I labour, yet not I, but the grace of God that is with me;

for it behoveth him to reign till he may have put all the enemies under his feet --

for all things He did put under his feet, and, when one may say that all things have been subjected, it is evident that He is excepted who did subject the all things to him,

But some one will say, 'How do the dead rise?

and that which thou dost sow, not the body that shall be dost thou sow, but bare grain, it may be of wheat, or of some one of the others,

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

and there are heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies; but one is the glory of the heavenly, and another that of the earthly;

but that which is spiritual is not first, but that which was natural, afterwards that which is spiritual.

for it behoveth this corruptible to put on incorruption, and this mortal to put on immortality;

and when this corruptible may have put on incorruption, and this mortal may have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the word that hath been written, 'The Death was swallowed up -- to victory;

for I do not wish to see you now in the passing, but I hope to remain a certain time with you, if the Lord may permit;