And I call upon you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that the same thing ye may all say, and there may not be divisions among you, and ye may be perfected in the same mind, and in the same judgment,

for it was signified to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe, that contentions are among you;

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but -- to proclaim good news; not in wisdom of discourse, that the cross of the Christ may not be made of none effect;

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

And we the spirit of the world did not receive, but the Spirit that is of God, that we may know the things conferred by God on us,

which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, with spiritual things spiritual things comparing,

and he who is spiritual, doth discern indeed all things, and he himself is by no one discerned;

if of any the work is burned up, he shall suffer loss; and himself shall be saved, but so as through fire.

Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem to be wise among you in this age -- let him become a fool, that he may become wise,

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

and as to the rest, it is required in the stewards that one may be found faithful,

and to me it is for a very little thing that by you I may be judged, or by man's day, but not even myself do I judge,

And these things, brethren, I did transfer to myself and to Apollos because of you, that in us ye may learn not to think above that which hath been written, that ye may not be puffed up one for one against the other,

and ye are having been puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he may be removed out of the midst of you who did this work,

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

cleanse out, therefore, the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened, for also our passover for us was sacrificed -- Christ,

and now, I did write to you not to keep company with him, if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner -- with such a one not even to eat together;

Dare any one of you, having a matter with the other, go to be judged before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

have ye not known that the saints shall judge the world? and if by you the world is judged, are ye unworthy of the smaller judgments?

unto your shame I speak: so there is not among you one wise man, not even one, who shall be able to discern in the midst of his brethren!

but brother with brother doth go to be judged, and this before unbelievers!

Already, indeed, then, there is altogether a fault among you, that ye have judgments with one another; wherefore do ye not rather suffer injustice? wherefore be ye not rather defrauded?

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I -- I will not be under authority by any;

Have ye not known that your bodies are members of Christ? having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make them members of an harlot? let it be not!

have ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? 'for they shall be -- saith He -- the two for one flesh.'

Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

and this I say by way of concurrence -- not of command,

for I wish all men to be even as I myself am; but each his own gift hath of God, one indeed thus, and one thus.

but and if she may separate, let her remain unmarried, or to the husband let her be reconciled, and let not a husband send away a wife.

being circumcised -- was any one called? let him not become uncircumcised; in uncircumcision was any one called? let him not be circumcised;

a servant -- wast thou called? be not anxious; but if also thou art able to become free -- use it rather;

And concerning the virgins, a command of the Lord I have not; and I give judgment as having obtained kindness from the Lord to be faithful:

I suppose, therefore, this to be good because of the present necessity, that it is good for a man that the matter be thus: --

Hast thou been bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; hast thou been loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

And this I say, brethren, the time henceforth is having been shortened -- that both those having wives may be as not having;

And I wish you to be without anxiety; the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord;

The wife and the virgin have been distinguished: the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.

and if any one doth think it to be unseemly to his virgin, if she may be beyond the bloom of age, and it ought so to be, what he willeth let him do; he doth not sin -- let him marry.

A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will -- only in the Lord;

and if any one doth love God, this one hath been known by Him.

for if any one may see thee that hast knowledge in an idol's temple reclining at meat -- shall not his conscience -- he being infirm -- be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to idols,

and the brother who is infirm shall perish by thy knowledge, because of whom Christ died?

or because of us by all means doth He say it? yes, because of us it was written, because in hope ought the plower to plow, and he who is treading ought of his hope to partake in hope.

And I have used none of these things; neither did I write these things that it may be so done in my case, for it is good for me rather to die, than that any one may make my glorying void;

I became to the infirm as infirm, that the infirm I might gain; to all men I have become all things, that by all means I may save some.

but I chastise my body, and bring it into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others -- I myself may become disapproved.

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

neither may we tempt the Christ, as also certain of them did tempt, and by the serpents did perish;

neither murmur ye, as also some of them did murmur, and did perish by the destroyer.

No temptation hath taken you -- except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear it.

and conscience, I say, not of thyself, but of the other, for why is it that my liberty is judged by another's conscience?

as I also in all things do please all, not seeking my own profit, but that of many -- that they may be saved.

for if a woman is not covered -- then let her be shorn, and if it is a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven -- let her be covered;

and if any one doth think to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the assemblies of God.

for it behoveth sects also to be among you, that those approved may become manifest among you;

so that whoever may eat this bread or may drink the cup of the Lord unworthily, guilty he shall be of the body and blood of the Lord:

and let a man be proving himself, and so of the bread let him eat, and of the cup let him drink;

for if ourselves we were discerning, we would not be being judged,

and being judged by the Lord, we are chastened, that with the world we may not be condemned;

And concerning the spiritual things, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant;

But much more the members of the body which seem to be more infirm are necessary,

and those that we think to be less honourable of the body, around these we put more abundant honour, and our unseemly things have seemliness more abundant,

that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same anxiety for one another,

and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

The love doth never fail; and whether there be prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;

yet the things without life giving sound -- whether pipe or harp -- if a difference in the sounds they may not give, how shall be known that which is piped or that which is harped?

so also ye, if through the tongue, speech easily understood ye may not give -- how shall that which is spoken be known? for ye shall be speaking to air.

There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is unmeaning,

if, then, I do not know the power of the voice, I shall be to him who is speaking a foreigner, and he who is speaking, is to me a foreigner;

Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;

and if all may prophecy, and any one may come in, an unbeliever or unlearned, he is convicted by all, he is discerned by all,

and so the secrets of his heart become manifest, and so having fallen upon his face, he will bow before God, declaring that God really is among you.

What then is it, brethren? whenever ye may come together, each of you hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation? let all things be for building up;

if an unknown tongue any one do speak, by two, or at the most, by three, and in turn, and let one interpret;

and if there may be no interpreter, let him be silent in an assembly, and to himself let him speak, and to God.

and if to another sitting anything may be revealed, let the first be silent;

for ye are able, one by one, all to prophesy, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted,

Your women in the assemblies let them be silent, for it hath not been permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith;

if any one doth think to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge the things that I write to you -- that of the Lord they are commands;

and if any one is ignorant -- let him be ignorant;

let all things be done decently and in order.

for I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I did persecute the assembly of God,

and by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace that is towards me came not in vain, but more abundantly than they all did I labour, yet not I, but the grace of God that is with me;

and if there be no rising again of dead persons, neither hath Christ risen;

if in this life we have hope in Christ only, of all men we are most to be pitied.

for even as in Adam all die, so also in the Christ all shall be made alive,

and when the all things may be subjected to him, then the Son also himself shall be subject to Him, who did subject to him the all things, that God may be the all in all.

Every day do I die, by the glorying of you that I have in Christ Jesus our Lord:

Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

and that which thou dost sow, not the body that shall be dost thou sow, but bare grain, it may be of wheat, or of some one of the others,

lo, I tell you a secret; we indeed shall not all sleep, and we all shall be changed;

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, in the last trumpet, for it shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we -- we shall be changed:

and when this corruptible may have put on incorruption, and this mortal may have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the word that hath been written, 'The Death was swallowed up -- to victory;

on every first day of the week, let each one of you lay by him, treasuring up whatever he may have prospered, that when I may come then collections may not be made;

and if it be meet for me also to go, with me they shall go.

and with you, it may be, I will abide, or even winter, that ye may send me forward whithersoever I go,

Watch ye, stand in the faith; be men, be strong;

let all your things be done in love.

that ye also be subject to such, and to every one who is working with us and labouring;