For I have been informed concerning you, my brethren, by those of the family of Chloe, that there are dissensions among you.

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

but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

For consider, brethren, who ye are that have been called; not many wise men after the fashion of the world, not many mighty, not many noble;

but the foolish things of the world did God choose, to put to shame the wise; and the weak things of the world did God choose, to put to shame the things which are strong;

and the mean things of the world, and the things which are despised, did God choose, the things which are not, to bring to nought things that are;

But from him it is that ye are in Christ Jesus, who from God was made to us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption;

But we do speak wisdom among the perfect; not, however, the wisdom of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nought;

But the unspiritual man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot know them; because they are spiritually discerned.

I also, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual men, but as those who are not spiritual, as to babes in Christ.

I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able to bear it. Nor indeed are ye able even now;

for ye are yet unspiritual. For while there is among you rivalry and strife, are ye not unspiritual, and walking after the manner of men?

For while one saith, I am of Paul, and another, I am of Apollos, are ye not [like common] men?

And he that planteth and he that watereth are one; and each will receive his own reward, according to his own labor.

For we are Gods fellowlaborers; ye are Gods field, ye are Gods building.

Know ye not, that ye are Gods temple, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

If any one defaceth the temple of God, God will deface him; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye.

and again: "The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain."

So then let no one glory 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 to come,all are yours;

and ye are Christs, and Christ is Gods.

Already ye are full; already ye are rich; without us ye have become kings; and I would indeed ye were kings, that we also might reign with you.

We are fools for Christs sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are in honor, but we are despised.

Even to this very hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace,

Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.

But I shall come to you shortly, if it be the Lords will, and 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 that committed this deed might be separated from among you.

in the name of our Lord Jesus, when you and my spirit with you are assembled together, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

Cleanse out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened; for our passover also hath been sacrificed, even Christ.

For what have I to do with judging those who are without? Do not ye judge those who are within?

But those who are without, God will judge. Do ye put away that bad man from among yourselves.

Or do ye not know, that the holy will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge in causes of the least importance?

If then ye have any causes relating to this life, set them to judge who are of no repute in the church.

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

Meats are for the stomach, and the stomach for meats; but God will make an end of both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

Know ye not, that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid!

Know ye not, that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God, and that ye are not your own?

But to those who are married it is my command, yet not mine, but the Lords: Let not the wife separate herself from her husband,

For the unbelieving husband hath been made holy by his wife, and the unbelieving wife hath been made holy by the brother; otherwise were your children unclean, but, as it is, they are holy.

For though there are those that are called gods, whether in heaven or on 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 to him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him.

But food will not recommend us to God; if we do not eat, we are not the worse; nor if we do eat, are we the better.

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 surely I am to you; for the seal of my apostleship are ye in the Lord.

No temptation hath come upon you, but such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted beyond what ye are able to endure, but will with the temptation furnish also the way to escape, that ye may be able to endure it.

For we, the many, are one loaf, one body; for we all share in that one loaf.

Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

All things are lawful, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful, but all things are not edifying.

For in the first place, when ye come together in assembly of the church, I hear that there are divisions among you; and I partly believe it;

for there must be also parties among you, that they who are approved may also become manifest among you.

For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and some are falling asleep.

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

Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit;

and there are diversities of services, but the same Lord;

and there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God who worketh all things in all.

For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so it is with Christ.

But now there are, indeed, many members, but one body.

Nay, still more, those members of the body which seem to be weak, are necessary;

Now ye are the body of Christ, and members individually. And

God appointed some in the church to be, in the first place, apostles, in the second place, prophets, in the third place, teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, those of helping and of governing, divers kinds of tongues. Are all apostles?

Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles?

Love never faileth; but whether there are prophesyings, they will come to an end; whether tongues, they will cease; whether knowledge, it will be done away.

There are, it may be, so many kinds of languages in the world, and not one is without meaning.

So also ye, since ye are eager to possess spiritual gifts, be earnest to abound in them to the edification of the church.

and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord." Wherefore the tongues are for a sign, not to believers, but to unbelievers; but prophesying is not for unbelievers, but for believers.

If therefore the whole church be assembled in one place, and all be speaking with tongues, and there come in those who are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?

And spirits of prophets are subject to prophets;

let your women keep silence in the churches; for it is not permitted them to speak, but they are to be in subjection, as also saith the Law.

If any one thinketh himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him know surely that the directions I am writing to you are the Lords;

by which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the same word which I preached to you, unless ye believed in vain.

And we are also found false witnesses concerning God; because we testified concerning God that he raised up Christ, whom he did not raise up, if so be that the dead rise not.

and if Christ hath not risen, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins;

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

But every one in his own order; Christ the firstfruits, afterward they that are Christs, at his coming.

If it be not so, what are they doing, who are baptized for the dead? If the dead rise not at all, why are they then baptized for them?

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

There are also heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies; but the glory of the heavenly is one, and the glory of the earthly is another.

As was the earthy, such are they also that are earthy; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly;

for a door hath been opened to me great and effective, and there are many adversaries.

And I exhort you, brethren,ye know the family of Stephanas, that they are the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the service of the holy,

that ye submit yourselves to such as they are, and to every one that worketh with us, and laboreth.

for they refreshed my spirit and yours. Pay regard then to those that are such.