Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, to the church of God which is in Corinth,

even to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, and called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is both their Lord and ours;

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

I always give thanks unto my God, on your account, for the grace of God bestowed on you in Christ Jesus; that ye are enriched by Him with every gift,

who will also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ;

for God is faithful by whom ye were called into the communion of his son Jesus Christ our Lord.

Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye would all say alike, and that there may be no schisms among you, but that ye be perfectly united in the same mind and in the same judgement.

For I have been informed concerning you, my brethren, by some of Chloe's family, that there are contentions among you.

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in fine speech, least the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.

For, since in the wisdom of God the world by it's wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by what they called the folly of preaching to save those that believe.

For ye see by your calling, brethren, that not many wise men according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called:

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

But God hath revealed them to us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, even the deep things of God.

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit of God; that we might know the things that are graciously bestowed upon us by God:

which we also speak of, not in words dictated by human wisdom, but in those which are dictated by the holy Spirit; explaining spiritual things by spiritual words.

Whereas the spiritual man discerneth all things, yet is himself discerned by no one.

Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whose means ye embraced the faith, even as the Lord gave success to each of them?

every man's work shall be made manifest. For the great day will shew it; because it will be discovered by fire, and the fire will prove every man's work of what sort it is.

but if any man's work be burnt, he will be damaged; though he himself shall be saved, but, as it were out of fire.

Let no one deceive himself: if any among you seem to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be truly wise.

Now it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

But to me it is of very small moment to be judged by you, or by any man's judgement; nor indeed do I judge myself:

These things, my brethren, I have by a figure transferred to myself, and Apollos, for your sakes, that ye may learn in us not to be wise above what is written, that ye may not be puffed up for one against another.

for if ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet ye have not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you by the gospel.

I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me.

And are ye puffed up, and have not rather grieved? that he who hath committed this fact might be expelled from among you?

when ye are assembled together with my spirit, by the power, I say,

of our Lord Jesus Christ, to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your boasting is not good.

Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new mass, without leaven. For our paschal lamb, even Christ, was slain for us.

But now I have written to you, not to associate with him, if any one, that is called a brother, be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious; with such a one no not to eat.

Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy of judging the smallest controversies?

Therefore if ye have controversies about the things of this life, do ye set them to judge, who are despised by the church?

Now there is certainly a fault among you, that ye have law-suits with one another: why do ye not rather endure wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

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

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

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be under the power of any:

And as God hath raised up the Lord, so will He raise up us by his power.

God forbid! What! know ye not that he who is joined to an harlot is one body with her? for these two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

Do not withdraw from one another, unless by consent for a season, that ye may attend to fasting and prayer: and come together again, least Satan tempt you through your incontinency.

But I say this by way of permission, not of command:

But those that are married, not I command, but the Lord, that the wife be not separated from her husband;

(but if she separate, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband;) and that the husband put not away his wife.

Is any one called that is circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised: is any one called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised: for circumcision is nothing,

Wast thou called being a slave, be not anxious about it; but if thou canst be made free, prefer it.

But concerning single persons I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgement as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

for a single man to be so. Art thou bound to a wife indeed? seek not to be loosed: but art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

But this I say, brethren, that the time is short: it remains therefore, that even those, who have wives, be as though they had none;

and they, that weep, as if they wept not; and they, that rejoice, as if they rejoiced not; and they, that buy, as if they possessed not;

There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin: she, that is unmarried, careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but she, that is married, is in care about the things of the world, and how she may please her husband.

But if any one think that he acts unbecomingly towards his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and that it ought to be so, let him do what he will; he doth not sin: let them marry.

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth: but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will, only in the Lord:

And if any one be conceited of his knowledge, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.

But if any man love God, he is owned by Him.

For though there be some that are called Gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are among the heathen gods many,

and lords many,) yet to us there is but one God the Father, from whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by Him.

But see that this liberty of yours be not by any means a stumbling-block to the weak.

For if any one see thee, who hast knowledge, at table in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him that is weak be encouraged to eat of the things sacrificed to idols?

and so the weak brother, for whom Christ died, shall perish by thy knowledge?

But I have availed myself of none of these things. Nor have I written these things, that it might be so done as to me: for it were better for me to die, than that any one should make this my glorying void.

To the weak I became as the weak, that I might gain the weak: I became all things to all men, that I might by every means save some.

And this I do for the sake of the gospel, that I may be a fellow partaker of it.

but I mortify my body and bring it into subjection, least after having preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

and were all baptized into Moses by the cloud and by the sea;

And be ye not idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play."

Neither 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 yet taken you but what is common to man: and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able to sustain; but will with the temptation also make a way of escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

And I would not have you partakers with demons. Ye cannot drink of the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: ye cannot be partakers of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.

If all things be lawful for me, yet all things are not expedient: all things may be lawful for me, but all things do not edify.

Conscience I say, not thy own, but the other's; for why is my liberty to be judged by another man's conscience?

Even as I also endeavour to please all men in all things, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.

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

For if a woman be not covered, she may as well be shorn: but if it be shameful to a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.

For as the woman was originally from the man, so also is the man by the woman: but all things are from God.

For there must be even heresies among you, that they who are approved may be made manifest among you.

and gave thanks, and brake it, and said, "Take and eat; this is my body, which is going to be broken for you: this do in remembrance of me."

So that whosoever eateth this bread, or drinketh of the cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord.

If then we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged:

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

and if any one be hungry, let him eat at home, that ye may not come together to your condemnation. And as to other things, I will set them in order when I come.

I must acquaint you, that no one speaking by the Spirit of God, calleth Jesus a curse: and no one can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the holy Ghost.

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

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

so also is the mystical body of Christ; for by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, (whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free) and are all made to drink into one Spirit:

But those parts of the body, which seem to be weaker, are much more necessary:

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

And so if one member suffer all the members suffer with it; and if one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

And though I give all my substance to feed the poor, and my body to be burnt, and have not charity, I am nothing profited.

Charity never faileth: but as to prophecies, they shall be abolished; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be laid aside.

But when that which is perfect shall come, then that which is defective shall be laid aside.

Labour after charity, and be desirous of spiritual gifts: but especially that ye may prophesy.

As inanimate things which give a found, whether pipe or harp, unless they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall what is piped or harped be understood?

So also unless ye utter by the tongue intelligible words, how shall what is spoken be understood? for thus ye will be only talking to the wind.

There are, it may be, as many kinds of voices in the world as people, and none of them insignificant.

But if I know not the force of the words, I shall be to him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh will be a barbarian to me.

What is then to be done? I will pray with the Spirit, but I will pray to be understood: I will sing with the spirit, but I will sing to be understood.

But in a public assembly I had rather speak five words to be understood, that I may instruct others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

My brethren, be not children in sense: but in malice be infants, and in your judgements shew yourselves to be men.

It is written in the law, "By men of another language, and by other lips, will I speak to this people, and even so they will not listen to me, saith the Lord."

If then the whole church be come together and all speak in unknown tongues, and there come in illiterate persons, or infidels, will they not say that ye are mad?