Jews continue to ask for miracles and Greeks are ever wanting philosophy,

so that as Scripture says, He that glories, let him glory in the Lord.

for I determined to know nothing, while among you, but Jesus as Christ, and him a crucified Christ.

Nay, as it is written. Eye has not seen, Nor ear heard, Neither have entered into man's heart The things which God has prepared For those who love him.

As for me, brothers, I could not talk to you as spiritual men, but as to creatures of flesh, mere babes in Christ.

If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, as it were through the flames.

Let any man look upon us as servants of Christ, and stewards of the secret truths of God.

For who makes you a differ, brother? Or what have you that you did not receive? But if you did receive it, why are you boasting as if you had not received it?

When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when defamed, we conciliate. We have been made, as it were, scum-o'-the-earth, the very refuse of the world, to this very hour!

I am not writing this to shame you, but to admonish you, as my beloved children.

Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.

It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and such immorality as is not even among the heathen??hat a man has taken his father's wife!

Then get rid of the old leaven, so that you may be like a new lump, as you are now unleavened. For our Paschal Lamb has already been sacrificed, Christ himself.

I would that every one lived as I do; but each man has his own special gift from God, one this, another that.

But to the unmarried, and the widows, I say that it is well for them to remain as I am.

(or if she has already left him let her either remain as she is, or be reconciled to him), and also that a husband is not to put away his wife.

I think then, that in view of the time of suffering now imminent, it is best for a man to remain as he is.

Indeed, brothers, the time that remains to us has been shortened; so let those who have wives live as if they had none,

let those who weep be as though they did not weep, those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, those who buy as though they did not possess,

and those who use the world as though using it sparingly. For the present phase of the world is passing away.

But she is happier, in my judgment, if she remains as she is; and I think that I, too, have the Spirit of God.

If a man thinks that he already has knowledge, he does not yet truly know as he ought to know;

Now as to eating food that has been offered to idols, we know well that an idol has no real existence in the universe, and that there is no God but One.

For though there be so-called "gods," celestial of terrestrial, as indeed there are gods many and lords many,

But that "knowledge" is not possessed by all; but some, accustomed until now to the idol, eat food as that which has actually been offered to an idol, and so their conscience, being still weak, is defiled.

Have I no right to take a believing wife with me on my journey, as the rest of the apostles and the Lord's brothers and Peter do?

What then is my wage? This, that I can make the gospel free where I carry it; and that I can refrain from using my rights as a preacher of the gospel.

to those outside the Law, as one outside the Law, to win those outside the Law (though I am not outside the law of God, but inside the law of Christ).

For my part, then, I run with no wavering to the goal. I box not as one beating the air,

Now this happened as a warning for us, that we might not long for evil things as they longed.

And you must not be idolaters like some of them. as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, And they rose up for idol dances.

Nor must we act licentiously, as some of them did, and fell in a single day, twenty-three thousand of them.

Neither must we presume upon the patience of our Lord, as some of them presumed, and were destroyed by the serpents;

nor murmur, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the Destroying Angel.

Be imitators of me, as I am an imitator of Christ.

Indeed I praise you for remembering me in everything, and because you are holding fast to the traditions just as you received them.

but every woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled dishonors her head (her husband). for it is one and the same thing as if she were shaven.

for just as the woman was made from the man, so also is the man born of the woman, while they both come from God.

For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you are proclaiming your Lord's death until he come.

But the one and the same Spirit gives power to all, distributing his gifts to each as he wills.

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, although they be many, are one body; so also is Christ.

But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body as it has pleased him.

For now we see as in a mirror, and are baffled, but then face to face; now I know in fragments, but then shall I understand even as I also have been understood.

For if lifeless instruments such as the flute or the harp give no distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is fluted or harped?

but in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, so as to instruct others, than ten thousand in an unknown tongue.

But if to one as he sits there some revelation is made, let the first be silent.

"In your congregation" you write, "as in all the churches of the saints, let the women keep silence in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak. On the contrary let them be subordinate, as also says the law.

And if they want to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a women to speak in church."

and last of all, as by one born out of due time, he was seen by me also.

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

But some one will ask. "How are the dead raised? and with what body are they coming?"

As we have borne the likeness of him who was of earth, so also let us bear the likeness of Him who is of heaven.

Now concerning the offering for the saints, you also are to do as I directed the church of Galatia.

On the first day of each week let each of you put aside something, keeping it in store as he may prosper, so that when I come there may be no collections going on.

If Timothy come, see to it that he is among you without trepidation; for he is doing the Lord's work, as I am, so let no one disparage him.

As for our Apollos, I have many times urged him to go to you with the others, but he was always unwilling to go to you at this time. He will come, however, whenever he has a good opportunity.

They refresh my spirit as they do yours. So cultivate the acquaintance of such men.