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.

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

For Christ has not sent me to baptise, but to preach glad tidings; not in wisdom of word, that the cross of the Christ may not be made vain.

Where is the wise? where scribe? where disputer of this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom has not known God, God has been pleased by the foolishness of the preaching to save those that believe.

For consider your calling, brethren, that there are not many wise according to flesh, not many powerful, not many high-born.

and the ignoble things of the world, and the despised, has God chosen, and things that are not, that he may annul the things that are;

And I, when I came to you, brethren, came not in excellency of word, or wisdom, announcing to you the testimony of God.

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

and my word and my preaching, not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power;

that your faith might not stand in men's wisdom, but in God's power.

But we speak wisdom among the perfect; but wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who come to nought.

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

but according as it is written, Things which eye has not seen, and ear not heard, and which have not come into man's heart, which God has prepared for them that love him,

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:

which also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, communicating spiritual things by spiritual means.

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;

And I, brethren, have not been able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly; as to babes in Christ.

I have given you milk to drink, not meat, for ye have not yet been able, nor indeed are ye yet able;

for ye are yet carnal. For whereas there are among you emulation and strife, are ye not carnal, and walk according to man?

For when one says, I am of Paul, and another, I of Apollos, are ye not men?

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

For I am conscious of nothing in myself; but I am not justified by this: but he that examines me is the Lord.

So that do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord shall come, who shall also both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and shall make manifest the counsels of hearts; and then shall each have his praise from God.

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.

For who makes thee to differ? and what hast thou which thou hast not received? but if also thou hast received, why boastest thou as not receiving?

Not as chiding do I write these things to you, but as my beloved children I admonish you.

For if ye should have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the glad tidings.

But some have been puffed up, as if I were not coming to you;

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.

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

It is universally reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the nations, so that one should have his father's wife.

And ye are puffed up, and ye have not rather mourned, in order that he that has done this deed might be taken away out of the midst of you.

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

so that let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of malice and wickedness, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

I have written to you in the epistle not to mix with fornicators;

not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the avaricious and rapacious, or idolaters, since then ye should go out of the world.

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.

For what have I to do with judging those outside also? ye, do not ye judge them that are within?

Dare any one of you, having a matter against another, prosecute his suit before the unjust, and not before the saints?

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?

I speak to you to put you to shame. Thus there is not a wise person among you, not even one, who shall be able to decide between his brethren!

Already indeed then it is altogether a fault in you that ye have suits between yourselves. Why do ye not rather suffer wrong? why are ye not rather defrauded?

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,

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

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God will bring to nothing both it and them: but the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

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?

But concerning the things of which ye have written to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman;

The wife has not authority over her own body, but the husband: in like manner also the husband has not authority over his own body, but the wife.

Defraud not one another, unless, it may be, by consent for a time, that ye may devote yourselves to prayer, and again be together, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

But this I say, as consenting to, not as commanding it.

But if they have not control over themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

But to the married I enjoin, not I, but the Lord, Let not wife be separated from husband;

(but if also she shall have been separated, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband;) and let not husband leave wife.

But as to the rest, I say, not the Lord, If any brother have an unbelieving wife, and she consent to dwell with him, let him not leave her.

And a woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband.

But if the unbeliever go away, let them go away; a brother or a sister is not bound in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

Has any one been called circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised: has any one been called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.

Hast thou been called being a bondman, let it not concern thee; but and if thou canst become free, use it rather.

Ye have been bought with a price; do not be the bondmen of men.

Art thou bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; art thou free from a wife? do not seek a wife.

But if thou shouldest also marry, thou hast not sinned; and if the virgin marry, they have not sinned: but such shall have tribulation in the flesh; but I spare you.

But this I say, brethren, the time is straitened. For the rest, that they who have wives, be as not having any:

and they that weep, as not weeping; and they that rejoice, as not rejoicing; and they that buy, as not possessing;

and they that use the world, as not disposing of it as their own; for the fashion of this world passes.

But I say this for your own profit; not that I may set a snare before you, but for what is seemly, and waiting on the Lord without distraction.

But if any one think that he behaves unseemly to his virginity, if he be beyond the flower of his age, and so it must be, let him do what he will, he does not sin: let them marry.

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.

So that he that marries himself does well; and he that does not marry does better.

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.

But meat does not commend us to God; neither if we should not eat do we come short; nor if we should eat have we an advantage.

For if any one see thee, who hast knowledge, sitting at table in an idol-house, shall not his conscience, he being weak, be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to the idol?

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.

Am I not free? am I not an apostle? have I not seen Jesus our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?

If I am not an apostle to others, yet at any rate I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.

Have we not a right to eat and to drink?

have we not a right to take round a sister as wife, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

Or I alone and Barnabas, have we not a right not to work?

Who ever carries on war at his own charges? who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? or who herds a flock and does not eat of the milk of the flock?

Do I speak these things as a man, or does not the law also say these things?

For in the law of Moses it is written, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that is treading out corn. Is God occupied about the oxen,

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.

For if I announce the glad tidings, I have nothing to boast of; for a necessity is laid upon me; for it is woe to me if I should not announce the glad tidings.

For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with an administration.

What is the reward then that I have? That in announcing the glad tidings I make the glad tidings costless to others, so as not to have made use, as belonging to me, of my right in announcing the glad tidings.

And I became to the Jews as a Jew, in order that I might gain the Jews: to those under law, as under law, not being myself under law, in order that I might gain those under law:

to those without law, as without law, (not as without law to God, but as legitimately subject to Christ,) in order that I might gain those without law.

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.

I therefore thus run, as not uncertainly; so I combat, as not beating the air.

For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

yet God was not pleased with the most of them, for they were strewed in the desert.

But these things happened as types of us, that we should not be lusters after evil things, as they also lusted.

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.

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

See Israel according to flesh: are not they who eat the sacrifices in communion with the altar?