Paul, called, sent of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother,

God faithful, by whom we were called to the communion of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

And I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same, and there be no divisions in you; and ye be set in order in the same mind and in the same knowledge.

For it was manifested to me concerning you, my brethren, by them of Chloe, that there are contentions with you.

For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to announce good news: not in wisdom of word, lest the cross of Christ be made void.

For since in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, God was contented by the foolishness of proclaiming to save them believing.

That your faith might not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

And God has revealed to us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, and the deep things of God.

And we have not received the spirit of the world, but the spirit from God; that we might know things bestowed upon us as a gift by God.

Which also we speak, not in words taught of man's wisdom, but in them taught of the Holy Spirit; examining spiritual things by spiritual.

And the spiritual truly examines all things, and he is examined by no one.

Who then is Paul, and who Apollos, but servants by whom ye believed, and to each as the Lord gave?

The work of each shall be manifested: for the day shall manifest, for in fire it is revealed; and the work of each, what sort it is, the fire shall prove.

If the work of any one shall be burned, he shall be caused damage: and he shall be saved; and so as by fire.

Let none completely deceive himself. If any think to be wise in this life, let him be foolish, that he may he wise.

Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or about to be; all are yours;

And besides it is sought in stewards, that any one be found faithful.

And to me it is the least that I be judged by you, or by man's day: but neither do I judge myself.

For I know nothing by myself; but in this I have not been justified: and he examining me is the Lord.

Therefore judge ye nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who also, will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of hearts: and then shall praise be to each from God.

And these things, brethren, I transformed to myself and to Apollos for you; that ye might learn in us not to think above what has been written, lest ye be puffed up one above one against the other.

For if ye have ten thousand preceptors in Christ, but not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus by the good news I begat you.

I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me.

And ye were puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he having done this work might be taken away from the midst of you.

To deliver such a one to Satan for the ruin of the flesh, that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Therefore cleanse out the old leaven, that ye may be a new mixture, as ye are unleavened. For also our pascha was sacrificed for us, Christ:

Dare any of you, having an affair with another, be judged by the unjust, and not by the holy ones?

Know ye not that the holy ones shall judge the world? and if the world be judged by you, are ye unworthy of the least judgments?

For confusion I speak to you. So is there not one wise with you, who will be able to judge between his brother?

But brother with brother is judged, and this by the unbelieving.

Therefore truly, already is there wholly a misfortune in you, that ye have judgments with yourselves. Wherefore had ye not rather be treated ill? wherefore had ye not rather be defrauded?

Or know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God Be ye not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

All things are lawful to me, but all are not profitable: all are lawful to me, but I will not be exercised by power under any.

And God also raised up the Lord, and us will he also raise up by his power.

Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? having taken the members of Christ, shall I make members of a harlot? It may not be.

Or know ye not that he joined to a harlot is one body? for they shall be, he says, they two into one flesh.

For I will all men to be as also myself. But each has his own favor of God, the one truly thus, and the other thus.

And if they have not self command, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to be set on fire.

And to the married I announce, (not I, but the Lord,) The wife not to be separated from the husband:

And if also she be separated, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to the husband: and the husband not to send away the wife.

And if the unbelieving is separated, let him be separated. A brother or a sister has not been reduced to slavery in such things as these: and God has called us in peace.

Whoever was called circumcised? let him not be drawn to himself. Whoever was called in uncircumeision? let him not be circumcised.

A servant wert thou called? let it not concern thee: for if thou art able to be free, rather make use of it.

Ye were bought for a price; be ye not servants of men.

But for virgins I have not an order of the Lord: and I give an opinion as compassionated by the Lord to be faithful.

I think therefore this to be good for the present necessity, that it is good for a man to be thus.

And this I say, brethren, the time is restricted; as to the rest, that they also having wives should be as not having;

But I will you to be free from care. The unmarried cares for things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord:

The wife and virgin have been divided. The unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, that she might be holy also in body and spirit: and she married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please her husband.

And if any think to act unbecomingly towards his virgin, if she be past the vigor of youth, and so it ought to be, let him do what he will, he sins not; let them marry.

The woman was bound by law for as much time as her husband lives; and if her husband be set to sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

But to us one God, the Father, of whom all things, and we for him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom all things, and we by him.

And see ye lest this your power be a stumble to the weak.

For if any one see thee having knowledge reclining in the idol's temple, shall not his consciousness, being weak, be built up to eat the sacrifices to idols;

And shall the weak brother be destroyed upon thy knowledge, for whom Christ died?

But I used none of these things: and I wrote not these things, that thus it might be with me: for good to me rather to die, than that any should render my boasting void.

But I give my body a blow under the eyes, and reduce to bondage: lest having proclaimed to others, I myself be rejected.

And I will not ye be ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

And these things were our types, that we be not eagerly desirous of evil things, as they also eagerly desired.

Neither be ye idolaters, as some of them; as has been written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

Neither should we tempt Christ, as also some of them tempted, and were destroyed by serpents.

Neither do ye murmur, as also some of them murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

No temptation except human has taken you and God faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able; but with the temptation will he also make an escape, that ye may be able to bear.

But, that what things they sacrifice the nations sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I will not ye be partakers of demons.

And consciousness, I say, not thine, but another's: for that why is my freedom judged by another's consciousness

And if I partake by grace, why am I defamed for what I give thanks?

And be ye not molesters to the Jews, and the Greeks, and to the church of God:

As I also please in all things to all, not seeking my advantage, but that of many, that they might be saved.

Be ye imitators of me, as I also of Christ.

For if the woman is not covered, let her also be shorn: and if shameful to the woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.

For as the woman by the man, so also the man by the woman; and all things of God.

And if any one seem to be loving strife, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

For truly first, ye coming together in the church, I hear divisions to be among you; and some part I believe.

For there must be also sects among you, that the tried might be made manifest among you.

Therefore whoever should eat this bread, and drink the cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be liable to the penalty of the body and blood of the Lord.

For if we examined ourselves, we should not be judged.

And being judged, we are corrected of the Lord, lest we be condemned with the world.

And concerning spiritual things, brethren, I wish you not to be ignorant.

For truly to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; and to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;

And all these works one and the same Spirit, dividing to each his own things as be will.

If the foot say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; by this is it not of the body

And if the ear say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; by this is it not of the body

But much rather the members of the body, seeming to be weak, are necessary:

And what we think to be less honourable of the body, upon these we put more abundant honour; and our unseemly parts have more abundant decorum.

That no division be in the body; but the members should care the same for one another.

And ye are the body of Christ, and members by parts.

And be emulous of the better favors: and yet I shew you a way according to eminence.

And if I feed out all my goods, and if I deliver my body that I be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

Love never falters: but whether gifts of prophecies, they shall be left unemployed; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall be left unemployed.

For we know by parts, and we prophesy by parts.

And when the perfected come, then shall that by parts be left unemployed.

For now we see by a mirror in an enigma; then face to face: now I know by parts; and then shall I know as I was known.

Pursue love, and be emulous of spiritual things, and rather that ye might prophesy.

As inanimate things giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, if it give not a distinction to sounds, how shall the piping or harping be known?

So also ye, except by the tongue ye give an evident word, how shall the speaking be known? for ye shall be speaking into the air.

If perchance, such kind of voices be in the world, and none of them speechless.

If therefore I know not the power of the voice, I shall be to him speaking a foreigner, and he speaking a foreigner to me.

But in the church, I will to speak five words by my mind, that I might also sound. in the ears of others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

Brethren, be not children in reflection: but in wickedness act like children, and in reflection be ye perfected.

And If all prophesy, and any unbelieving, or ignorant private individual come in, he is refuted by all, he is examined by all: