So that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:

Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

Now this I say, that every one of you says, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.

For since in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

That no flesh should glory in his presence.

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

Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

For what man knows the things of a man, except the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knows no man, but the Spirit of God.

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

But he that is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

I have fed you with milk, and not with solid food: for until now you were not able to bear it, neither yet now are you able.

Now he that plants and he that waters are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.

For no other foundation can a man lay than what is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;

Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;

For I know nothing against myself; yet am I not thereby justified: but he that judges me is the Lord.

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

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

Now you are full, now you are rich, you have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling place;

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

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

Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

Purge out therefore the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no not to eat.

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?

Know you not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?

Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because you go to law one with another. Why do you not rather take wrong? why do you not rather allow yourselves to be defrauded?

Nay, you do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.

Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid.

What? know you not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? for two, says he, shall be one flesh.

What? know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have of God, and you are not your own?

Now concerning the things of which you wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

For how do you know, O wife, whether you shall save your husband? or how do you know, O man, whether you shall save your wife?

Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that has obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

Nevertheless he that stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own will, and has so decreed in his heart that he will keep her his virgin, does well.

Now concerning things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.

And if any man thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.

As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

Therefore, if food makes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat while the world stands, lest I make my brother to stumble.

Or says he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that plows should plow in hope; and that he that threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope.

Do you not know that they who minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they who wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?

Know you not that they who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain.

And every man that strives for self control is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.

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

Let no man seek his own, but every man another's good.

Whatsoever is sold in the meat market, that eat, asking no question for conscience's sake:

If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and you be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience's sake.

Now I praise you, brethren, because you remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.

But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that you come together not for the better, but for the worse.

After the same manner also he took the cup, after he had eaten, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do you, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.

You know that you were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as you were led.

Therefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Spirit.

Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.

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

But now are they many members, yet but one body.

And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of you: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:

For our more respectable parts have no need: but God has arranged the body together, having given more abundant honor to that part which lacked:

That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.

Now you are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

Does not behave itself rudely, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, keeps no record of evil;

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

For now we see in a mirror dimly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

And now abides faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

For he that speaks in an unknown tongue speaks not unto men, but unto God: for no man understands him; but in the spirit he speaks mysteries.

Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?

Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaks a foreigner, and he that speaks shall be a foreigner unto me.

But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.

After that, he was seen of over five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain until now, but some are fallen asleep.

Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:

But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.

Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, since you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do you.

Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God has prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.

Now I will come unto you, when I shall pass through Macedonia: for I do pass through Macedonia.

For I will not see you now in passing; but I trust to tarry awhile with you, if the Lord permits.

Now if Timothy comes, see that he may be with you without fear: for he works the work of the Lord, as I also do.

Let no man therefore despise him: but send him forth in peace, that he may come unto me: for I look for him with the brethren.

I beseech you, brethren, (you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)