so that ye come short in no gift, awaiting the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all say the same thing, and that there be not among you divisions; but that ye be perfectly united in the same mind and in the same opinion.

that no one may say that I have baptised unto my own name.

Yes, I baptised also the house of Stephanas; for the rest I know not if I have baptised any other.

so that no flesh should boast before God.

For I did not judge it well to know anything among you save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

which none of the princes of this age knew, (for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;)

For who of men hath known the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? thus also the things of God knows no one except the Spirit of God.

But we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we may know the things which have been freely given to us of God:

But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him; and he cannot know them because they are spiritually discerned;

but the spiritual discerns all things, and he is discerned of no one.

For other foundation can no man lay besides that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

Now if any one build upon this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, grass, straw,

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

Let no one deceive himself: if any one thinks himself to be wise among you in this world, let him become foolish, that he may be wise.

So that let no one boast in men; for all things are yours.

Now these things, brethren, I have transferred, in their application, to myself and Apollos, for your sakes, that ye may learn in us the lesson of not letting your thoughts go above what is written, that ye may not be puffed up one for such a one against another.

insulted, we entreat: we are become as the offscouring of the world, the refuse of all, until now.

but I will come quickly to you, if the Lord will; and I will know, not the word of those that are puffed up, but the power.

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

Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened. For also our passover, Christ, has been sacrificed;

But now I have written to you, if any one called brother be fornicator, or avaricious, or idolater, or abusive, or a drunkard, or rapacious, not to mix with him; with such a one not even to eat.

Do ye not then know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of the smallest judgments?

Do ye not know that we shall judge angels? and not then matters of this life?

Do ye not know that unrighteous persons shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who make women of themselves, nor who abuse themselves with men,

Do ye not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then, taking the members of the Christ, make them members of a harlot? Far be the thought.

Do ye not know that he that is joined to the harlot is one body? for the two, he says, shall be one flesh.

Do ye not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have of God; and ye are not your own?

for ye have been bought with a price: glorify now then God in your body.

Now I wish all men to be even as myself: but every one has his own gift of God: one man thus, and another thus.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother; since otherwise indeed your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

But concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord; but I give my opinion, as having received mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

But he who stands firm in his heart, having no need, but has authority over his own will, and has judged this in his heart to keep his own virginity, he does well.

But concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.

If any one think he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know it.

concerning then the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God save one.

But knowledge is not in all: but some, with conscience of the idol, until now eat as of a thing sacrificed to idols; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

Now, thus sinning against the brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.

Wherefore if meat be a fall-trap to my brother, I will eat no flesh for ever, that I may not be a fall-trap to my brother.

If others partake of this right over you, should not rather we? But we have not used this right, but we bear all things, that we may put no hindrance in the way of the glad tidings of the Christ.

Do ye not know that they who labour at sacred things eat of the offerings offered in the temple; they that attend at the altar partake with the altar?

But I have used none of these things. Now I have not written these things that it should be thus in my case; for it were good for me rather to die than that any one should make vain my boast.

Know ye not that they who run in the race-course run all, but one receives the prize? Thus run in order that ye may obtain.

and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank of a spiritual rock which followed them: (now the rock was the Christ;)

Now all these things happened to them as types, and have been written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.

No temptation has taken you but such as is according to man's nature; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able to bear, but will with the temptation make the issue also, so that ye should be able to bear it.

But that what the nations sacrifice they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. Now I do not wish you to be in communion with demons.

Let no one seek his own advantage, but that of the other.

Everything sold in the shambles eat, making no inquiry for conscience sake.

But if any one of the unbelievers invite you, and ye are minded to go, all that is set before you eat, making no inquiry for conscience sake.

Give no occasion to stumbling, whether to Jews, or Greeks, or the assembly of God.

Now I praise you, that in all things ye are mindful of me; and that as I have directed you, ye keep the directions.

But I wish you to know that the Christ is the head of every man, but woman's head is the man, and the Christ's head God.

But if any one think to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor the assemblies of God.

But in prescribing to you on this which I now enter on, I do not praise, namely, that ye come together, not for the better, but for the worse.

In like manner also the cup, after having supped, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do, as often as ye shall drink it, in remembrance of me.

Ye know that when ye were of the nations ye were led away to dumb idols, in whatever way ye might be led.

I give you therefore to know, that no one, speaking in the power of the Spirit of God, says, Curse on Jesus; and no one can say, Lord Jesus, unless in the power of the Holy Spirit.

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

But now the members are many, and the body one.

that there might be no division in the body, but that the members might have the same concern one for another.

Now ye are Christ's body, and members in particular.

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

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part:

For we see now through a dim window obscurely, but then face to face; now I know partially, but then I shall know according as I also have been known.

And now abide faith, hope, love; these three things; and the greater of these is love.

For he that speaks with a tongue does not speak to men but to God: for no one hears; but in spirit he speaks mysteries.

Now I desire that ye should all speak with tongues, but rather that ye should prophesy. But greater is he that prophesies than he that speaks with tongues, unless he interpret, that the assembly may receive edification.

And now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I shall speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophecy, or in teaching?

If therefore I do not know the power of the sound, I shall be to him that speaks a barbarian, and he that speaks a barbarian for me.

Since otherwise, if thou blessest with the spirit, how shall he who fills the place of the simple Christian say Amen, at thy giving of thanks, since he does not know what thou sayest?

but if there be no interpreter, let him be silent in the assembly, and let him speak to himself and to God.

Then he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the most remain until now, but some also have fallen asleep.

Now if Christ is preached that he is raised from among the dead, how say some among you that there is not a resurrection of those that are dead?

(But now Christ is raised from among the dead, first-fruits of those fallen asleep.

Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin the law;

Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I directed the assemblies of Galatia, so do ye do also.

On the first of the week let each of you put by at home, laying up in whatever degree he may have prospered, that there may be no collections when I come.

For I will not see you now in passing, for I hope to remain a certain time with you, if the Lord permit.

Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear; for he works the work of the Lord, even as I.

Now concerning the brother Apollos, I begged him much that he would go to you with the brethren; but it was not at all his will to go now; but he will come when he shall have good opportunity.

But I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruits of Achaia, and they have devoted themselves to the saints for service,)