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:

(according as the testimony of the Christ has been confirmed in you,)

God is faithful, by whom ye have been called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

Is the Christ divided? has Paul been crucified for you? or have ye been baptised unto the name of Paul?

For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but to us that are saved it is God's power.

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

Where is the wise? where scribe? where disputer of this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

For consider your calling, brethren, that there are not many wise according to flesh, not many powerful, not many high-born.

But God has chosen the foolish things of the world, that he may put to shame the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world, that he may put to shame the strong things;

But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who has been made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness, and holiness, and redemption;

that according as it is written, He that boasts, let him boast in the Lord.

but according as it is written, Things which eye has not seen, and ear not heard, and which have not come into man's heart, which God has prepared for them that love him,

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

For who of men hath known the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? thus also the things of God knows no one except the Spirit of God.

But we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we may know the things which have been freely given to us of God:

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

And I, brethren, have not been able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly; as to babes in Christ.

Who then is Apollos, and who Paul? Ministering servants, through whom ye have believed, and as the Lord has given to each.

So that neither the planter is anything, nor the waterer; but God the giver of the increase.

According to the grace of God which has been given to me, as a wise architect, I have laid the foundation, but another builds upon it. But let each see how he builds upon it.

For other foundation can no man lay besides that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

the work of each shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire shall try the work of each what it is.

If the work of any one shall be consumed, he shall suffer loss, but he shall be saved, but so as through the fire.

If any one corrupt the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye.

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

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it is written, He who takes the wise in their craftiness.

And again, The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise that they are vain.

and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.

Let a man so account of us as servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Here, further, it is sought in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

But for me it is the very smallest matter that I be examined of you or of man's day. Nor do I even examine myself.

For I am conscious of nothing in myself; but I am not justified by this: but he that examines me is the Lord.

Now these things, brethren, I have transferred, in their application, to myself and Apollos, for your sakes, that ye may learn in us the lesson of not letting your thoughts go above what is written, that ye may not be puffed up one for such a one against another.

For who makes thee to differ? and what hast thou which thou hast not received? but if also thou hast received, why boastest thou as not receiving?

Already ye are filled; already ye have been enriched; ye have reigned without us; and I would that ye reigned, that we also might reign with you.

For I think that God has set us the apostles for the last, as appointed to death. For we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

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

Not as chiding do I write these things to you, but as my beloved children I admonish you.

For this reason I have sent to you Timotheus, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who shall put you in mind of my ways as they are in Christ, according as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

But some have been puffed up, as if I were not coming to you;

For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

It is universally reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the nations, so that one should have his father's wife.

For I, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged as present,

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

Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened. For also our passover, Christ, has been sacrificed;

so that let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of malice and wickedness, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Do ye not then know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of the smallest judgments?

If then ye have judgments as to things of this life, set those to judge who are little esteemed in the assembly.

I speak to you to put you to shame. Thus there is not a wise person among you, not even one, who shall be able to decide between his brethren!

Already indeed then it is altogether a fault in you that ye have suits between yourselves. Why do ye not rather suffer wrong? why are ye not rather defrauded?

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.

Do ye not know that he that is joined to the harlot is one body? for the two, he says, shall be one flesh.

But he that is joined to the Lord is one Spirit.

Flee fornication. Every sin which a man may practise is without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.

Do ye not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have of God; and ye are not your own?

But concerning the things of which ye have written to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman;

But this I say, as consenting to, not as commanding it.

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.

But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, It is good for them that they remain even as I.

But if they have not control over themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

But as to the rest, I say, not the Lord, If any brother have an unbelieving wife, and she consent to dwell with him, let him not leave her.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother; since otherwise indeed your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

But if the unbeliever go away, let them go away; a brother or a sister is not bound in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

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.

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but keeping God's commandments.

Hast thou been called being a bondman, let it not concern thee; but and if thou canst become free, use it rather.

For the bondman that is called in the Lord is the Lord's freedman; in like manner also the freeman being called is Christ's bondman.

Let each, wherein he is called, brethren, therein abide with God.

But concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord; but I give my opinion, as having received mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

I think then that this is good, on account of the present necessity, that it is good for a man to remain so as he is.

But this I say, brethren, the time is straitened. For the rest, that they who have wives, be as not having any:

and they that weep, as not weeping; and they that rejoice, as not rejoicing; and they that buy, as not possessing;

and they that use the world, as not disposing of it as their own; for the fashion of this world passes.

There is a difference between the wife and the virgin. The unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but she that has married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please her husband.

But I say this for your own profit; not that I may set a snare before you, but for what is seemly, and waiting on the Lord without distraction.

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 she is happier if she so remain, according to my judgment; but I think that I also have God's Spirit.

If any one think he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know it.

But if any one love God, he is known of him):

concerning then the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God save one.

For and if indeed there are those called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are gods many, and lords many,)

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.

But meat does not commend us to God; neither if we should not eat do we come short; nor if we should eat have we an advantage.

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

My defence to those who examine me is this:

have we not a right to take round a sister as wife, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

Do I speak these things as a man, or does not the law also say these things?

For in the law of Moses it is written, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that is treading out corn. Is God occupied about the oxen,

If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?

For if I announce the glad tidings, I have nothing to boast of; for a necessity is laid upon me; for it is woe to me if I should not announce the glad tidings.

What is the reward then that I have? That in announcing the glad tidings I make the glad tidings costless to others, so as not to have made use, as belonging to me, of my right in announcing the glad tidings.

And I became to the Jews as a Jew, in order that I might gain the Jews: to those under law, as under law, not being myself under law, in order that I might gain those under law:

to those without law, as without law, (not as without law to God, but as legitimately subject to Christ,) in order that I might gain those without law.

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.

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.

I therefore thus run, as not uncertainly; so I combat, as not beating the air.

But these things happened as types of us, that we should not be lusters after evil things, as they also lusted.