Grace be to you, and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

that in everything you are enriched by Him, in all speech and in all knowledge;

He shall also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

God is faithful, by whom you were called to the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

But I exhort you, brothers, 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.

For it has been declared to me concerning you, my brothers, by those of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel; not in 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 did not know God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.

But God has revealed them to us by His Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God.

But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit from God, so that we might know the things that are freely given to us by God.

But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged by no one.

Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to each?

According to the grace of God which is given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let every man be careful how he builds on it.

each one's work shall be revealed. For the Day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try each one's work as to what kind it is.

If anyone's work shall be burned up, he shall suffer loss. But he shall be saved, yet so as by fire.

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

And the rest, it is sought among stewards that one be found faithful.

But to me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a man's day; but I do not judge my own self,

for I know nothing by myself. Yet I have not been justified by this, but He who judges me is the Lord.

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

Therefore I beseech you, be imitators of me.

And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, so that he who has done this deed may be taken from your midst.

to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Therefore purge out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For also Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.

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?

For I speak to your shame. Is it so that there is not a wise one among you, not even one in your midst who shall be able to judge between his brother?

Indeed then there is already on the whole a failure among you, that you have lawsuits with yourselves. Why not instead be wronged? Why not instead be defrauded?

Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor abusers, nor homosexuals,

And such were some of you. But you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

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

And God has both raised up the Lord, and also will raise us up by His own power.

Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of a harlot? Let it not be!

Or do you not know that he being joined to a harlot is one body? For He says, The two shall be one flesh.

And to the married I command (not I, but the Lord), a woman not to be separated from her husband.

But if she is indeed separated, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband is not to leave his wife.

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

But if the unbelieving one separates, let him be separated. A brother or a sister is not in bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

Was any called having been circumcised? Do not be uncircumcised. Was anyone called in uncircumcision? Do not be circumcised.

You are bought with a price, do not be the slaves of men.

But concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord. Yet I give my judgment, as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be faithful.

Then I think this is good, because of the present necessity; that it is good for a man to be so.

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

But this I say, brothers, The time is short. It remains that both those who have wives should be as not having one.

And they who weep are as though they did not weep. And they who rejoice are as though they did not rejoice. And they who buy are as though they did not possess.

But I desire you to be without anxiety. The one who is unmarried cares for the things that belong to the Lord, how to please the Lord.

The wife and the virgin are different. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

But if anyone thinks it behaving himself indecently toward his virgin (if she is past her prime, and so it ought to be) let him do what he will; he does not sin; let them marry.

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband lives, but if her husband sleeps in death, she is at liberty to be remarried to whom she will, only in the Lord.

but there is to us only one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we by Him.

But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours becomes a stumbling block to those who are weak.

For if anyone sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol temple, will not the weak one's conscience be lifted up so as to eat things sacrificed to idols?

Or does He say it altogether for our sakes? It was written for us, so that he who plows should plow in hope, and so that he who threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope.

But I have used none of these things, nor have I written these things that it should be done so to me; for it is good for me rather to die than that anyone nullify my glorying.

To the weak I became as the weak, so that I might gain the weak. I am made all things to all men, so that I might by all means save some.

And this I do for the sake of the gospel, so that I might be partaker of it with you.

But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest proclaiming to others I myself might be rejected.

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

And these things were our examples, that we should not be lusters after evil, as they also lusted.

Nor should we be idolaters, even as some of them, as it is written: "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."

Nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted Him and were destroyed by serpents.

Nor murmur as some of them also murmured and were destroyed by the destroyer.

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

You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot be partakers of the Lord's table and of a table of demons.

conscience, I say, not your own, but the other's. For why is my liberty judged by another's conscience?

For if I by grace am a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?

even as I please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, so that they may be saved.

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

For if the woman is not veiled, let her also be shorn. But if it is a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be veiled.

But if anyone seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor the churches of God.

For there must also be heresies among you, that the approved ones may be revealed among you.

So that whoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily, he will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged.

But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says Jesus is a curse, and that no one can say that Jesus is Lord, but by the Holy Spirit.

and to another faith by the same Spirit; and to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;

For also by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free, even all were made to drink into one Spirit.

If all the body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If all hearing, where would be the smelling?

And if they were all one member, where would be the body?

But much rather the members of the body seeming to be weaker are necessary.

And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we put more abundant honor around them. And our unpresentable members have more abundant propriety.

that there not be division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another.

And though I give out all my goods to feed the poor, and though I deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity, I am profited nothing.

Charity never fails. But if there are prophecies, they will be abolished; if tongues, they shall cease; if knowledge, it will be abolished.

But when the perfect thing comes, then that which is in part will be caused to cease.

Yet lifeless things giving a sound, whether flute or harp, if they do not give a distinction in the sound, how will it be known what is being piped or harped?

So also you, if you do not give a clear word through the language, how will it be known what is being said? For you will be speaking into the air.

So it may be many kinds of sounds are in the world, and not one is without a distinct sound.

Therefore if I do not know the power of the sound, I will be a foreigner to him speaking, and he speaking will be a foreigner to me.

Brothers, do not be children in your minds, but in malice be like infants, and in your minds be mature.

In the Law it is written, "By other tongues and other lips I will speak to this people, and even so they will not hear Me, says the Lord."

But if all prophesy, and some unbeliever or one not instructed comes, he is convicted by all, he is judged by all.

Then how is it, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be for building up.

If one speaks in a language, let it be by two, or at the most three, and in succession. And let one interpret.

But if there is no interpreter, let him be silent in a church; and let him speak to himself and to God.

If a revelation is revealed to another sitting by, let the first be silent.

For you may all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all may be comforted.

Let your women be silent in the churches; for it is not permitted to them to speak, but to be in subjection, as the Law also says.

If anyone thinks to be a prophet, or a spiritual one, let him recognize the things I write to you, that they are a commandment of the Lord.

But if any is ignorant, let him be ignorant.

Let all things be done decently and in order.