To the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours.

I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;

Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:

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

Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?

For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness; but to us who are saved, it is the power of God.

For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

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

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

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

But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who from God is made to us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

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

For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from God; that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God.

But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged by no man.

And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, even as to babes in Christ.

For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

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

So then, neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth: but God that giveth the increase.

According to the grace of God which is given to me, as a wise master-builder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth upon it. But let every man take heed how he buildeth upon it.

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

Every man's work will be made manifest: for the day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will try every man's work, of what sort it is.

If any man's work shall be burned, he will suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

If any man defileth the temple of God, him will God destroy: for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts 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 of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

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

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment: yes, I judge not my own self.

For I know nothing against myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

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

For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?

Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I wish ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men.

We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honorable, but we are despised.

Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things to this day.

I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.

For this cause have I sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who will bring you into remembrance of my ways which are in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.

Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.

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

It is reported commonly that there is lewdness among you, and such lewdness as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,

Your boasting is not good. Know ye not, that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

Cleanse out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

But now I have written to you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother is a lewd person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner: with such person no not to eat.

I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that will be able to judge between his brethren?

Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for lewdness, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

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

What? know ye not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

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

Flee lewdness. Every sin that a man doeth, is without the body; but he that committeth lewdness, sinneth against his own body.

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

Now concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

But I speak this by permission, and not as a commandment.

For I would that all men were as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that.

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

But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

But to the rest I speak, not the Lord, if any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she is pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

And the woman who hath a husband that believeth not, and if he is pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

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

But if the unbelieving departeth, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases; but God hath called us to peace.

But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so I ordain in all churches.

Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not become circumcised.

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

Art thou called being a servant? care not for it; but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.

For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's free-man: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.

Brethren, let every man in the state in which he is called, continue in it with God.

Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment as one that hath obtained mercy from the Lord to be faithful.

I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.

But this I say, brethren, The time is short. It remaineth, that both they that have wives, be as though they had none;

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

And they that use this world, as not abusing it. For the fashion of this world passeth away.

But I would have you without anxious care. He that is unmarried, is anxious for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

But he that is married, is anxious for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

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

And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

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

But she is happier if she so remain, after my judgment; and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.

Now as concerning things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

And if any man thinketh that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.

But if any man loveth God, the same is known by him.

Therefore as concerning the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

For though there are that are called gods, whether in heaven or upon earth, (as there are 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 there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol to this hour eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

But food commendeth us not to God: for neither if we eat, are we the better; neither if we eat not, are we the worse.

For if any man shall see thee, who hast knowledge, sit eating in the idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;

My answer to them that examine me is this,

Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

Do I say these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?

For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?

Or saith he this altogether for our sakes? for our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.

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