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.

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

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.

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

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

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;

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

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

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;

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

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

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."

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

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.

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:

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

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:

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

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.

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

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:

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

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,

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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:

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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

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

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.

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.

But if the unbeliever depart, let them depart; a brother or a sister is not bound in such cases.

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?

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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,

There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin: she, that is unmarried, careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but she, that is married, is in care about the things of the world, and how she may please her husband.

And this I say for your own benefit, not that I may cast a snare upon you, but in order to recommend that which is fit and becoming before the Lord without distraction.

But if any one think that he acts unbecomingly towards his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and that it ought to be so, let him do what he will; he doth not sin: let them marry.

But he, that is stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath determined in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doth well.

So that he, who giveth her in marriage, doth well; but he, that giveth her not in marriage, doth better.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.