For it was declared to me about you, my brothers, by those of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

For the message of the cross is of course, foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is a power of God.

For notice your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to flesh, not many powerful, not many eminent.

And God chose the common things of the world, and the disdained things, and the things that are not, so that he might make useless the things that are,

But ye are his, in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

But as it is written, What an eye has not seen, and an ear has not heard, and have not arisen in a heart of a man, are things that God prepared for those who love him.

Now the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is unable to understand because they are evaluated spiritually.

I gave you milk to drink and not solid food, for ye were not yet able. But not even yet are ye able,

for ye are still carnal. For whereas among you is envy and strife and divisions, are ye not carnal and walk according to man?

For while one may say, I am of Paul, and another, I am of Apollos, are ye not carnal?

Now he who plants and he who waters are one, but each man will receive his own payment according to his own labor.

For we are co-workmen of God. Ye are a tillage of God, an edifice of God.

Know ye not that ye are a temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in you?

If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy this man, for the temple of God is holy, which ye are.

and again, Lord knows the thoughts of the wise that they are vain.

Therefore let not one man 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,

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

Already ye are filled. Already ye have become rich. Ye reigned without us, and O that ye did indeed reign, so that we also might reign with you.

We are foolish for the sake of Christ, but ye are wise in Christ. We are weak, but ye are strong. Ye are esteemed, but we are disreputable.

As far as the present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are ill clothed, and are treated roughly, and are homeless.

But as of me not coming to you, some men are puffed up.

But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord should will, and I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.

And ye are puffed up and did not rather mourn, so that he who committed this deed might be taken away from the midst of you.

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Purge out the old leaven, so that ye may be a new lump, since ye are unleavened. For also Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us.

Or know ye not that the sanctified will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of very small legal disputes?

Indeed therefore whenever ye have mundane legal disputes, men who are disdained by the church, these ye seat to judge.

All things are lawful for me, but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under control by anything.

The foods are for the belly and the belly for foods, but God will abolish both this and these things. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Know ye not that your bodies are body-parts of Christ? Therefore, having taken the body-parts of the Christ, should I make them body-parts of a harlot? May it not happen!

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

And to those who are married, I do not command but the Lord. The wife is not to separate from her husband.

For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified by the husband, then otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

Were thou called being a bondman? It should not concern thee. However if also thou are able to become free, take advantage of it instead.

Are thou bound to a wife? Do not seek separation. Are thou free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

And the wife and the virgin are differentiated. The unmarried woman is concerned for the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married is concerned for the things of the world, how s

For also since there are things called gods, whether in heaven or on the earth, as there are many gods and many lords,

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

But food does not present us to God, for neither if we eat are we ahead, nor if we do not eat are we behind.

But take heed lest somehow this privilege of yours becomes a stumbling-block to those who are weak.

Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are ye not my work in Lord?

If I am not an apostle to others, yet at least I am to you, for ye are the seal of my apostleship in Lord.

If others are partakers of the right from you, are not we more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we cover all things, so that we may not give any hindrance to the good-news of the Christ.

Know ye not that those being employed at the sacred things eat from the temple, and those who serve at the altar are partakers at the altar?

No temptation has taken you except is common to man. But God is faithful who will not allow you to be tempted above what ye are able, but with the temptation will also make the way to escape, to enable you to endure.

Because we, the many, are one bread, one body, for we are all partakers of the one bread.

Look at Israel according to flesh. Those who eat the sacrifices, are they not partakers of the altar?

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

All things are permitted for me, but not all things are expedient. All things are permitted for me, but not all things are constructive.

For just as the woman is from the man, so also the man is through the woman. But all things are from God.

For indeed first, when ye come together in a congregation, I hear divisions are present among you, and I partly believe it.

Because of this many are weak and sickly among you, and a considerable sleep.

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

Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit.

And there are varieties of services, and the same Lord.

And there are varieties of functions, but it is the same God who works all in all.

For just as the body is one and has many parts, and all the parts of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ.

For also by one Spirit we are all immersed into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bondmen or freemen, and we were all made to drink into one Spirit.

But now of course there are many body-parts, but one body.

Instead, much more the parts of the body that seem to be more feeble are necessary.

Now ye are the body of Christ, and body-parts individually.

And in the church God has placed men who are first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, kinds of tongues.

Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all do miracles?

Since there are perhaps, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without significance.

So also ye, since ye are zealots of spirits, seek so that ye may excel for the edification of the church.

Therefore tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving. But prophesying is not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe.

If therefore the whole congregation comes together in the same place, and all speak in tongues, and unlearned or unbelieving men come in, will they not say that ye are mad?

And so the secrets of his heart are made manifest. And so having fallen down on his face he will worship God, declaring that God is really among you.

And the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets,

If any man presumes to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge what I write to you, that they are commandments of Lord.

by which also ye are saved if ye hold firm that word I preached to you, unless ye believed in vain.

And also we are found FALSE witnesses of God, because we witnessed according to God that he raised up the Christ, whom he did not raise up, if therefore the dead are really not raised.

For if the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised.

And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain. Ye are still in your sins.

If we are men who have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men more miserable.

But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruit of those who are asleep.

And when all things are made subordinate to him, then the Son himself will also be made subordinate to him who subordinated all things to him, so that God may be all in all.

Otherwise what will they do who are immersed for the dead? If the dead do not rise at all, why then are they immersed for the dead?

And we, why are we in peril every hour?

If in respect to men I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what is the benefit to me if the dead are not raised? Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

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

As is the earthly, such also are the earthly. And as is the heavenly, such also are the heavenly.

For a great and effective door has opened to me, and yet there are many who are hostile.