so that you are behind in no gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,

that no one may say that I baptized in my name.

For you see your calling, brothers, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble [are called];

For who knows the [things] of man, except the spirit of man which is in him? So also no one knows the [things] of God except the Spirit of God.

so neither is he that plants any thing, nor he that waters, but God that causes it to grow.

For we are God's co-laborers; you are God's field, God's building.

According to the grace of God given me as a wise architect I have laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one see how he builds on it.

each one's work shall be manifest; for the day shall show it, because it shall be revealed by fire, and the same fire shall try every man's work what it is.

If any one's work continues which he has built, he shall receive a reward;

if any one's work is consumed, he shall suffer loss, and he shall be saved, but so as by fire.

and you Christ's, and Christ God's.

Let a man so regard us as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

But it is of little account to me that I should be judged by you or by man's day [judgment]; but I judge not myself;

For we are foolish for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; and you are glorious, but we are infamous.

IT is commonly reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not among the gentiles, that a man should have his father's wife.

For I indeed as absent in body, but present in spirit, have already judged as present him that has so done this,

Know you not that your bodies are Christ's members? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them a harlot's members? by no means.

But this I say by suggestion, not by command.

And I say to the unmarried and to the widows, that it is good for them to continue as I am;

Unless as the Lord has imparted to each one, as God has called each one, so let him walk; and so I appoint in all the churches.

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping God's commandments.

For the servant called in the Lord is the Lord's freeman; in like manner the called freeman is Christ's servant.

I think then that this is good on account of the present necessity, because it is good for man to be so.

But this I say, brothers, the time is short, so that in future those who have wives should be as those not having them,

But I say this for your own profit; not to impose a snare on you, but for [your] honor, and [your] attending on the Lord without distraction.

But if any one thinks that he behaves improperly to his virgin, if she is past her prime, and it must be so, let him do what he wishes; he does not sin; let them marry.

But all have not this knowledge; and some with the conscience [unenlightened] even till now eat an idol's [sacrifice] as an idol's sacrifice, and their conscience being weak is defiled.

For if any one sees you who have knowledge reclining in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him that is weak be emboldened to eat things offered to idols?

Do I say these things in the manner of men? or does not the law also say the same?

So also the Lord has appointed to those who preach the gospel to live by the gospel.

But I have used none of these things, and I have not written these things that it should be so done to me; for I prefer to die, rather than that any one should make my boasting vain.

Know you not that those who run in the race all indeed run, but one takes the prize. So run that you may obtain.

I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, and so strike, not as one who beats the air;

For I wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,

and all were baptized to Moses by the cloud and by the sea,

so that he who thinks he stands, let him take heed lest he fall.

I speak as to wise men; judge what I say.

What then do I say? that an idol sacrifice is any thing, or that an idol is any thing?

You cannot drink the Lord's cup and the cup of demons; you cannot partake at the Lord's table and the table of demons.

for the earth is the Lord's and all it contains.

for as the woman is of the man, so also the man is through the woman, but all things are from God.

When you come together therefore, it is not to eat the Lord's supper,

Have you not [food] to eat and drink at your houses? or do you despise the church of God, and shame those who have not [houses]? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you? In this I commend you not.

For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you declare the Lord's death till he comes.

So that whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord unworthily, is guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

But let a man prove himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup;

For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body being many are one body, so also is Christ;

The eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you, or again, the head to the feet, I have no need of you;

And if I have prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.

For now we see by a mirror darkly, but then we shall see face to face; now I know in part, but then I shall know fully as I also am known.

So of irrational objects making a sound, whether a flute or harp; if it makes no distinction of sounds, how shall it be known what is played on the flute or harp?

So also you by a tongue if you utter a word not easily understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for you will speak to the air.

So also you, since you are earnestly desirous of spirits [spiritual gifts], seek to abound for the edification of the church.

since if you bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupies the place of the unlearned say, Amen, to your thanksgiving, since he knows not what you say?

For it is written in the law, With other tongues, and with other lips will I speak to this people, and so they shall not understand me, says the Lord.

If, therefore, the whole church comes together, and all speak with tongues, and there come in the unlearned and unbelieving, will they not say that you are mad?

and the secrets of his heart are made manifest, and so falling down on his face he worships God, declaring that God is really among you.

If any one thinks he is a prophet, or a spiritual man, let him acknowledge the [things] which I write to you, that they are the Lord's;

Whether therefore it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.

But if Christ is preached that he was raised from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

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

But each one in his own order; Christ a first fruit, then those who are Christ's at his coming;

But some one will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?

Foolish man, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies;

and what you sow, you sow not the body which shall be, but the naked grain, it may be of wheat, or some of the other grains;

So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in destruction, it is raised in indestructibleness;

But I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor shall destruction inherit indestructibleness.

CONCERNING the collection for the saints, as I directed the churches of Galatia, so also do you.

For I do not wish now to see you by the way; for I hope to continue some time with you, if the Lord permits.

If Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he performs the work of the Lord, as I also do;

The salutation with my hand, Paul's.