so that ye come behind in not one gift, waiting for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ,

And I also immersed the household of Stephanas. Besides, I know not whether I immersed any other.

For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to preach the good-news, not in wisdom of speech lest the cross of Christ would be emptied.

Where is a wise man? Where is a scholar? Where is a researcher of this age? Did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world?

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

For notice your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to flesh, not many powerful, not many eminent.

And God chose the common things of the world, and the disdained things, and the things that are not, so that he might make useless the things that are,

And I, brothers, when I came to you, came not in eminence of speech or of wisdom proclaiming the testimony of God to you.

For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ, even this crucified man.

And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of spirit and of power,

so that your faith would not be in wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

But we speak wisdom among the fully developed, but not a wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age who come to nothing.

which none of the rulers of this age know. For if they knew, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

But as it is written, What an eye has not seen, and an ear has not heard, and have not arisen in a heart of a man, are things that God prepared for those who love him.

But we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the spirit from God, so that we might know the things graciously given to us by God.

Which things also we speak, not in things learned from mankind, in words of wisdom, but in things learned from Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

Now the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is unable to understand because they are evaluated spiritually.

And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, as to the childlike in Christ.

I gave you milk to drink and not solid food, for ye were not yet able. But not even yet are ye able,

for ye are still carnal. For whereas among you is envy and strife and divisions, are ye not carnal and walk according to man?

For while one may say, I am of Paul, and another, I am of Apollos, are ye not carnal?

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

Let not one man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he may become wise.

Therefore let not one man boast in men. For all things are yours,

for I know nothing on myself. Yet I have not been made righteous in this, but he who appraises me is Lord.

Therefore do not judge anything before time, until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make public the deliberations of the hearts. And then praise will come to each man from God.

Now these things, brothers, I applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that in us ye might learn not to think above that which is written, so that ye may not be puffed up, one over the one against the other.

For who makes thee different? And what have thou that thou did not receive? And also if thou received it, why do thou boast as not having received it?

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

For though ye have countless instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus I begot you through the good-news.

But as of me not coming to you, some men are puffed up.

But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord should will, and I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.

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

Fornication is actually heard among you, and such fornication that is not even named among the Gentiles, for some man to have his father's wife.

And ye are puffed up and did not rather mourn, so that he who committed this deed might be taken away from the midst of you.

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

Therefore we should feast, not by old leaven, nor by leaven of evil and wickedness, but by non-leaven of sincerity and truth.

I wrote to you in the letter not to associate with fornicators,

and not at all with the fornicators of this world, or with greedy men, or with predators, or with idolaters, since then ye would need to go out of the world.

But now I write to you not to associate if any man who is called a brother is a fornicator, or a greedy man, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or a predator, not even to eat with such kind.

For what is in me to also judge those outside? Do ye not judge those inside?

Dare any of you, having a matter against the other, go to law before the unrighteous and not before the sanctified?

Or know ye not that the sanctified will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of very small legal disputes?

Know ye not that we will judge heavenly agents? Then why not mundane things?

I speak shame about you. So there is not among you not even one wise man who will be able to arbitrate between his brother?

Now therefore it is indeed altogether a defeat for you because ye have legal disputes against yourselves. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

Or know ye not that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not led astray. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate men, nor homosexuals,

All things are lawful for me, but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under control by anything.

The foods are for the belly and the belly for foods, but God will abolish both this and these things. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Know ye not that your bodies are body-parts of Christ? Therefore, having taken the body-parts of the Christ, should I make them body-parts of a harlot? May it not happen!

Or know ye not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For, The two, he says, will be in one flesh.

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

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

The wife has not the right of her private body, but the husband, and likewise also the husband has not the right of his private body, but the wife.

Do not defraud each other except from agreement for a time, so that ye may have time for fasting and prayer. And come together again for the same thing, so that Satan not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

But I say this from concession not from commandment.

And to those who are married, I do not command but the Lord. The wife is not to separate from her husband.

But even if she separates, she shall remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband is not to leave his wife.

But to the rest I say, not the Lord. If any brother has an unbelieving wife, and this woman consents to dwell with him, he should not leave her.

And whichever woman has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to dwell with her, she should not leave him.

But if the unbeliever separates, he shall separate. The brother or the sister has not been bound in such things. And God has called us to peace.

Was any man called circumcised? He should not become uncircumcised. Was any man called in uncircumcision? He should not be circumcised.

Were thou called being a bondman? It should not concern thee. However if also thou are able to become free, take advantage of it instead.

Ye were bought with a price, become not bondmen of men.

Are thou bound to a wife? Do not seek separation. Are thou free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

But also if thou did marry thou have not sinned, and if the virgin married she has not sinned. Yet such kind will have stress in the flesh, but I spare you.

But this I say, brothers, the time is shortened. It is the remaining, so that also those who have wives may be as not having,

and those who weep, as not weeping, and those who rejoice, as not rejoicing, and those who buy, as not possessing,

and those who use this world, as not making full use, for the form of this world passes away.

And I say this for your own benefit, not that I may cast restraint upon you, but for what is respectable and assiduous toward the Lord, undistracted.

But if any man thinks to behave improperly toward his virgin, if it is past the best time, and so ought to happen, she should do what she wants, she does not sin, they should marry.

But he who stands firm in his heart, not having necessity, but has power based upon his own will, and has decided this in his heart, to keep his own celibacy, does well.

And therefore he who gives in marriage does well, but he who does not give in marriage does better.

Nevertheless the knowledge is not in all men, but some, with conscience of the idol until now, eat as sacrificed to idols, and their weak conscience is defiled.

But food does not present us to God, for neither if we eat are we ahead, nor if we do not eat are we behind.

For if some man sees thee, who have knowledge, dining in an idol-temple, will not his conscience, being weak, be strengthened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will no, not eat meat into the age, so that I may not cause my brother to stumble.

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

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

Have we no, not a right to eat and to drink?

Have we no, not a right to lead about a sister wife, as also the other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

Or have only I and Barnabas no right not to be occupied earning a living?

Who ever enlists in an army at his own wage? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat from the fruit of it? Or who feeds a flock and does not eat from the milk of the flock?

Do I say these things according to man, or does not the law also say these things?

For it is written in the law of Moses thou shall not muzzle an ox threshing grain. Is God concerned about oxen,

If others are partakers of the right from you, are not we more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we cover all things, so that we may not give any hindrance to the good-news of the Christ.

Know ye not that those being employed at the sacred things eat from the temple, and those who serve at the altar are partakers at the altar?

But I have used none of these things, and I did not write these things so that it should be done to me this way. For it is good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my boasting empty.

For if I preach the good-news, it is not a source of pride for me, for an obligation is laid upon me. And woe is to me if I do not preach the good-news.

What then is my reward? That, while preaching the good-news, I may make the good-news of the Christ without charge, in order not to make full use of my right in the good-news.

to those without law, as without law (not being without law to God, but within law to Christ), so that I might gain men without law.

Know ye not that those who run in an arena, indeed all run, but one receives the prize? So run that ye may seize it.

I therefore run this way, not as aimlessly. I fight this way, not as flaying air.

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

However with most of them God was not well pleased, for they were strewn in the wilderness.

But these things became our examples, for us not to be men who lust for evil things as those also lusted.

And ye should not grumble as some of them grumbled, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

No temptation has taken you except is common to man. But God is faithful who will not allow you to be tempted above what ye are able, but with the temptation will also make the way to escape, to enable you to endure.

The cup of the blessing that we bless, is it not a participation of the blood of the Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation of the body of the Christ?

Look at Israel according to flesh. Those who eat the sacrifices, are they not partakers of the altar?