that, as it is written, "He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord."

But, as it is written, "The things which eye hath not seen, and ear hath not heard, and that have not entered into the heart of man, these hath God prepared for those who love him."

AND I, brethren, have been unable to speak to you as unto spiritual men, but as to carnal, even as to babes in Christ.

For ye are still carnal: for since there are among you envy, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as [other] men?

Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but the ministers through whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to each [of us]?

According to the grace of God given unto me, as a skilful architect, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every one take heed how he buildeth upon it.

If any man's work be burnt up, he shall suffer loss: but himself shall be saved; yet so as through the fire.

LET a man so account of us, as the under servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

For who distinguisheth thee? and what hast thou which thou hast not received? But if thou also hast received it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?

For I think that God hath exposed us his apostles the last as devoted unto death. For we have been made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men.

being injuriously spoken of, we entreat; we are made as the ordures of the world, as the sweepings of all things unto this day.

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

For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my son beloved and faithful in Christ, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ Jesus, as I teach every where in every church.

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

IT is generally reported that there is whoredom among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

For I indeed, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have already, as present, passed judgment on him who hath so done this thing;

Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new mass, as ye are unleavened. For our passover hath been sacrificed for us, even Christ.

I speak to you to shame you. Is it so, that there is not among you a wise man? Not so much as one who is able to judge between one brother and another?

For I would that all men were even as myself: but every man hath his peculiar gift from God, one of this sort, and another of that.

I say then to the unmarried and the widows, that it is becoming them if they abide as I am.

Nevertheless as God has bestowed the gift on every man as the Lord hath called every man, so let him walk, and so I give command in all the churches.

Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord; but I offer my opinion, as having obtained mercy from the Lord to be faithful.

Now this I say, brethren, that the time is short. The conclusion is, that even they who have wives, should be as though they had not;

and they who weep as though they wept not; and they who rejoice as though they rejoiced not; and they that purchase as though they possessed not;

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

Now I say this for your own advantage, and not that I should lay a snare in your way, but as what is seemly, and that you may wait on the Lord without distraction.

But if a person supposes it would be unseemly for a virgin of his if she should pass the flower of her age [in celibacy], and that duty directs it should be so, let him do as he is inclined, he doth not sin: let such marry.

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

But she is more blessed if she abide as she is, in my opinion: and I think I have the spirit of God.

But if any man conceit that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.

For though there are gods so called, whether celestial or terrestrial, (as [of this sort] there are gods many, and lords many;)

Howbeit there is not in all men this knowledge; but some having conscientious respect for the idol to this moment, eat the meat as sacrificed to the idol; and their conscience being weak, is defiled.

Have we not power to carry about with us a sister wife, as do also the other apostles, even the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

Speak I these things [rationally] as a man, or doth not the law speak the same things?

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

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

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

I therefore so run not as uncertainly; so do I exercise with my fists, not as striking the air:

Now these things were examples for us, that we might not be coveters of evil things, as they also coveted.

Neither be ye idolaters as some of them; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to sport themselves."

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

Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents.

Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and perished by the destroyer.

Now all these things happened unto them as examples, but they are written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages are come.

I speak as unto wise men: judge ye what I say.

even as I please all men, not seeking my own advantage, but that of the many, that they may be saved.

BE ye imitators of me, as I am of Christ.

Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and hold fast the injunctions as I delivered them unto you.

but every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled, dishonoureth her head; for it is one and the same thing, as if she were shaven.

For as the woman was taken out of the man, so also is the man by the woman: but all things are of God.

In like manner also he took the cup, after they had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do, as often as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.

For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew forth the death of the Lord till he come.

Ye know that ye were Gentiles, drawn away after the idols that are dumb, even as ye have been led.

but all these things worketh that one and the same Spirit, distributing peculiar gifts to every one even as he wills.

For as the body is one, and hath many members, but all the members of that one body, though many, are one body: so also is Christ.

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

and those parts which we esteem as the more dishonourable of the body, on them we bestow more abundant honour, and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.

THOUGH I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become as sounding brass, and tinkling cymbal.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child: but when I grew a man, I put away childish things.

For now we see by reflected light, indistinctly; but then face to face: now I know partially; but then shall I know even as I am known.

For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all the churches of his saints.

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

But if they will learn any thing, let them ask their own husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

And last of all he was seen also by me, who am but as an abortion.

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

Awake as the righteous, and sin not; for some have an ignorance of God: I speak this to your shame.

but God giveth it a body as he pleaseth, and to each of the seeds its peculiar body.

As is the earthly, so are they also that are earthly: and as is the heavenly, such also are they that are heavenly.

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

NOW concerning the collection which is for the saints, as I have given an order to the churches of Galatia, so also do ye.

But if Timothy come, see that he may be among you without fear: for he worketh the Lord's work, as I also do.

As concerning brother Apollos, I besought him much that he would come to you with the brethren; but it was not at all his wish to come at this time: but he will come when he can find a good opportunity.