Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ, by God's will, and Sosthenes the brother,

to the assembly of God which is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all that in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both theirs and ours:

that in everything ye have been enriched in him, in all word of doctrine, and all knowledge,

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.

For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and set aside the understanding of the understanding ones.

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

but God has revealed to us by his Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.

but the spiritual discerns all things, and he is discerned of no one.

So that let no one boast in men; for all things are yours.

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

insulted, we entreat: we are become as the offscouring of the world, the refuse of all, until now.

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.

What will ye? that I come to you with a rod; or in love, and in a spirit of meekness?

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

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.

And God has both raised up the Lord, and will raise us up from among the dead by his power.

Now I wish all men to be even as myself: but every one has his own gift of God: one man thus, and another thus.

However, as the Lord has divided to each, as God has called each, so let him walk; and thus I ordain in all the assemblies.

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.

A wife is bound for whatever time her husband lives; but if the husband be fallen asleep, she is free to be married to whom she will, only in the Lord.

But concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.

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

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.

and the weak one, the brother for whose sake Christ died, will perish through thy knowledge.

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.

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.

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

For being free from all, I have made myself bondman to all, that I might gain the most possible.

I became to the weak, as weak, in order that I might gain the weak. To all I have become all things, in order that at all events I might save some.

And I do all things for the sake of the glad tidings, that I may be fellow-partaker with them.

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.

But every one that contends for a prize is temperate in all things: they then indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

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

and all were baptised unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

and all ate the same spiritual food,

and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank of a spiritual rock which followed them: (now the rock was the Christ;)

Now all these things happened to them as types, and have been written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.

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.

Because we, being many, are one loaf, one body; for we all partake of that one loaf.

All things are lawful, but all are not profitable; all things are lawful, but all do not edify.

But if any one of the unbelievers invite you, and ye are minded to go, all that is set before you eat, making no inquiry for conscience sake.

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatever ye do, do all things to God's glory.

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

Now I praise you, that in all things ye are mindful of me; and that as I have directed you, ye keep the directions.

For as the woman is of the man, so also is the man by the woman, but all things of God.

If any one be hungry, let him eat at home, that ye may not come together for judgment. But the other things, whenever I come, I will set in order.

and there are distinctions of operations, but the same God who operates all things in all.

But all these things operates the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each in particular according as he pleases.

For even as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ.

For also in the power of one Spirit we have all been baptised into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bondmen or free, and have all been given to drink of one Spirit.

If the whole body were an eye, where the hearing? if all hearing, where the smelling?

But if all were one member, where the body?

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

Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all in possession of miraculous powers?

have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?

And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

And if I shall dole out all my goods in food, and if I deliver up my body that I may be burned, but have not love, I profit nothing.

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Now I desire that ye should all speak with tongues, but rather that ye should prophesy. But greater is he that prophesies than he that speaks with tongues, unless he interpret, that the assembly may receive edification.

Thus also ye with the tongue, unless ye give a distinct speech, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye will be speaking to the air.

What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, but I will pray also with the understanding; I will sing with the spirit, but I will sing also with the understanding.

For thou indeed givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.

I thank God I speak in a tongue more than all of you:

It is written in the law, By people of other tongues, and by strange lips, will I speak to this people; and neither thus will they hear me, saith the Lord.

If therefore the whole assembly come together in one place, and all speak with tongues, and simple persons enter in, or unbelievers, will not they say ye are mad?

But if all prophesy, and some unbeliever or simple person come in, he is convicted of all, he is judged of all;

the secrets of his heart are manifested; and thus, falling upon his face, he will do homage to God, reporting that God is indeed amongst you.

What is it then, brethren? whenever ye come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to edification.

For ye can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all be encouraged.

For God is not a God of disorder but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

But let all things be done comelily and with order.

Then he appeared to James; then to all the apostles;

and last of all, as to an abortion, he appeared to me also.

But by God's grace I am what I am; and his grace, which was towards me, has not been vain; but I have laboured more abundantly than they all, but not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are the most miserable of all men.

For as in the Adam all die, thus also in the Christ all shall be made alive.

Then the end, when he gives up the kingdom to him who is God and Father; when he shall have annulled all rule and all authority and power.

For he must reign until he put all enemies under his feet.

For he has put all things in subjection under his feet. But when he says that all things are put in subjection, it is evident that it is except him who put all things in subjection to him.

But when all things shall have been brought into subjection to him, then the Son also himself shall be placed in subjection to him who put all things in subjection to him, that God may be all in all.)

Since what shall the baptised for the dead do if those that are dead rise not at all? why also are they baptised for them?

But some one will say, How are the dead raised? and with what body do they come?

Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all fall asleep, but we shall all be changed,

And when I am arrived, whomsoever ye shall approve, these I will send with letters to carry your bounty to Jerusalem:

But I will come to you when I shall have gone through Macedonia; for I do go through Macedonia.

But perhaps I will stay with you, or even winter with you, that ye may set me forward wheresoever I may go.

For I will not see you now in passing, for I hope to remain a certain time with you, if the Lord permit.

Now concerning the brother Apollos, I begged him much that he would go to you with the brethren; but it was not at all his will to go now; but he will come when he shall have good opportunity.

Let all things ye do be done in love.

All the brethren salute you. Salute one another with a holy kiss.

My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.