And I also baptized the household of Stephanas. Besides these, I do not know if I baptized any other.

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel; not in wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom did not know God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.

For you see your calling, brothers, that not many wise men according to the flesh are called, not many mighty, not many noble.

and God has chosen the base things of the world, and things which are despised, and things which are not, in order to bring to nothing things that are;

And I, brothers, when I came to you, did not come with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God.

For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

so that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

But, we speak wisdom among those who are perfect; yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, that come to nothing.

which none of the rulers of this world knew (for if they had known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory).

But as it is written, "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard," nor has it entered into the heart of man, "the things which God has prepared for those who love Him."

But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit from God, so that we might know the things that are freely given to us by God.

These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual ones, but as to fleshly, as to babes in Christ.

I have fed you with milk and not with solid food, for you were not yet able to bear it; nor are you able even now.

For you are yet carnal. For in that there is among you envyings and strife and divisions, are you not carnal, and do you not walk according to men?

For while one says, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are you not carnal?

Do you not know that you are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

But to me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a man's day; but I do not judge my own self,

for I know nothing by myself. Yet I have not been justified by this, but He who judges me is the Lord.

And these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that you might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, so that no one of you may be puffed up against one another.

For who makes you to differ from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

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

For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for I have begotten you in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

As to my not coming to you now, some are puffed up.

But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord wills. And I will not know the speech of those who are puffed up, but the power.

For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

On the whole it is reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even named among the nations, so as one to have his father's wife.

And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, so that he who has done this deed may be taken from your midst.

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

Therefore let us keep the feast; not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

I wrote to you in the letter not to associate intimately with fornicators;

yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then you must go out of the world.

But now I have written to you not to associate intimately, if any man called a brother and is either a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one not to eat.

For what is it to me to also judge those who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside?

Do any of you dare, when you have a matter against another, to go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

Do you not know that we shall judge angels, not to mention the things of this life?

For I speak to your shame. Is it so that there is not a wise one among you, not even one in your midst who shall be able to judge between his brother?

Indeed then there is already on the whole a failure among you, that you have lawsuits with yourselves. Why not instead be wronged? Why not instead be defrauded?

Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor abusers, nor homosexuals,

All things are lawful to me, but not all things profit. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

Meats for the belly and the belly for meats, but God shall destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord is for the body.

Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of a harlot? Let it not be!

Or do you not know that he being joined to a harlot is one body? For He says, The two shall be one flesh.

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, whom you have of God? And you are not your own,

Now concerning what you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband. And likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife.

Do not deprive one another, unless it is with consent for a time, so that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer. And come together again so that Satan does not tempt you for your incontinence.

But I speak this according to permission, not according to commandment.

But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

And to the married I command (not I, but the Lord), a woman not to be separated from her husband.

But if she is indeed separated, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband is not to leave his wife.

But to the rest I speak, not the Lord, If any brother has a wife who does not believe, and she is pleased to dwell with him, do not let him put her away.

And the woman who has a husband who does not believe, if he is pleased to dwell with her, do not let her leave him.

But if the unbelieving one separates, let him be separated. A brother or a sister is not in bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

Was any called having been circumcised? Do not be uncircumcised. Was anyone called in uncircumcision? Do not be circumcised.

Were you called as a slave? It does not matter to you, but if you are able to become free, use it rather.

You are bought with a price, do not be the slaves of men.

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

But if you do marry, you did not sin; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such shall have trouble in the flesh, but I spare you.

But this I say, brothers, The time is short. It remains that both those who have wives should be as not having one.

And they who weep are as though they did not weep. And they who rejoice are as though they did not rejoice. And they who buy are as though they did not possess.

And they who use this world are as not abusing it, for the fashion of this world is passing away.

And this I speak for your own profit, not that I may cast a snare on you, but for that which is right, and that you may attend on the Lord without distraction.

But if anyone thinks it behaving himself indecently toward his virgin (if she is past her prime, and so it ought to be) let him do what he will; he does not sin; let them marry.

So then he who gives in marriage does well. But he who does not give in marriage does better.

But this knowledge is not in all. But some being aware of the idol eat as an idolatrous sacrifice until now, and their conscience being weak is defiled.

But food does not commend us to God. For neither if we eat are we the better, nor if we do not eat are we the worse.

For if anyone sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol temple, will not the weak one's conscience be lifted up so as to eat things sacrificed to idols?

Therefore, if food offends my brother, I will eat no flesh forever, that I do not offend my brother.

Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

If I am not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

Do we not have authority to eat and to drink?

Do we not have authority to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brothers of the Lord do, and Cephas?

Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no authority whether not to work?

Who serves as a soldier at his own wages at any time? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock and does not partake of the milk of the flock?

Do I say these things according to man? Or does not the Law say the same also?

For it is written in the Law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox threshing grain." Does God take care for oxen?

If others have a share of this authority over you, rather should not we? But we have not used this authority, but we endured all things lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.

Do you not know that those who minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? And those attending the altar are partakers with the altar.

For though I preach the gospel, no glory is to me. For necessity is laid on me; yea, woe is to me if I do not preach the gospel!

What then is my reward? That when I preach the gospel I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I may not abuse my authority in the gospel.

To those who are outside Law, I became as outside Law (not being outside law to God, but under the Law to Christ), so that I might gain those who are outside Law.

Do you not know that those running in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain.

So then I run, not as if I were uncertain. And so I fight, not as one who beats the air.

And, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea.

But with many of them God was not well pleased, for they were scattered in the wilderness.

And these things were our examples, that we should not be lusters after evil, as they also lusted.

No temptation has taken you but what is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but with the temptation also will make a way to escape, so that you may be able to bear it.

The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

Behold Israel after the flesh. Are not those who eat of the sacrifices also partakers of the altar?

But I say that the things which the nations sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. And I do not desire that you should have fellowship with demons.

All things are lawful to me, but not all things profit. All things are lawful to me, but not all things build up.

If any of those who do not believe invite you to a feast, and if you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for conscience' sake.

But if anyone says to you, This is slain in sacrifice to idols, do not eat for the sake of him who showed it, and for conscience' sake; "for the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness of it";

conscience, I say, not your own, but the other's. For why is my liberty judged by another's conscience?