For it has been shewn to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of the house of Chloe, that there are strifes among you.

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

but to those that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ God's power and God's wisdom.

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

and the ignoble things of the world, and the despised, has God chosen, and things that are not, that he may annul the things that are;

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

But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him; and he cannot know them because they are spiritually discerned;

I have given you milk to drink, not meat, for ye have not yet been able, nor indeed are ye yet able;

for ye are yet carnal. For whereas there are among you emulation and strife, are ye not carnal, and walk according to man?

For when one says, I am of Paul, and another, I of Apollos, are ye not men?

But the planter and the waterer are one; but each shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.

For we are God's fellow-workmen; ye are God's husbandry, God's building.

Do ye not know that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

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

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

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;

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

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.

We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye prudent in Christ: we weak, but ye strong: ye glorious, but we in dishonour.

To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are in nakedness, and buffeted, and wander without a home,

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

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 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.

And ye are puffed up, and ye have not rather mourned, in order that he that has done this deed might be taken away out of the midst of you.

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;

For what have I to do with judging those outside also? ye, do not ye judge them that are within?

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.

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?

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.

Do ye not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then, taking the members of the Christ, make them members of a harlot? Far be the thought.

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?

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.

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.

Am I not free? am I not an apostle? have I not seen Jesus our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?

If I am not an apostle to others, yet at any rate I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.

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.

See Israel according to flesh: are not they who eat the sacrifices in communion with the altar?

Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

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.

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

On this account many among you are weak and infirm, and a good many are fallen asleep.

But being judged, we are disciplined of the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

But there are distinctions of gifts, but the same Spirit;

and there are distinctions of services, and the same Lord;

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

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.

But now the members are many, and the body one.

But much rather, the members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary;

Now ye are Christ's body, and members in particular.

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

There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of undistinguishable sound.

Thus ye also, since ye are desirous of spirits, seek that ye may abound for the edification of the assembly.

So that tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to unbelievers; but prophecy, not to unbelievers, but to those who believe.

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?

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.

And spirits of prophets are subject to prophets.

by which also ye are saved, (if ye hold fast the word which I announced to you as the glad tidings,) unless indeed ye have believed in vain.

Now if Christ is preached that he is raised from among the dead, how say some among you that there is not a resurrection of those that are dead?

But if there is not a resurrection of those that are dead, neither is Christ raised:

And we are found also false witnesses of God; for we have witnessed concerning God that he raised the Christ, whom he has not raised if indeed those that are dead are not raised.

For if those that are dead are not raised, neither is Christ raised;

but if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

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

For since by man came death, by man also resurrection of those that are dead.

But each in his own rank: the first-fruits, Christ; then those that are the Christ's at his coming.

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.

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?

If, to speak after the manner of man, I have fought with beasts in Ephesus, what is the profit to me if those that are dead do not rise? let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die.

Awake up righteously, and sin not; for some are ignorant of God: I speak to you as a matter of shame.

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

And there are heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies: but different is the glory of the heavenly, different that of the earthly: