I always thank my God for you because of the grace of God given you by the Messiah Jesus.

because you have in everything been richly blessed through union with Him, with perfect expression and fullness of knowledge.

Because it has come to my knowledge, through those of the house of Chloe, that there are divisions among you, my brothers.

For because, by the purpose of God, the world, with all its wisdom, had not the knowledge of God, it was God's pleasure, by so foolish a thing as preaching, to give salvation to those who had faith in him.

And because Jews demand a sign and Greeks search for wisdom

It is so, because God's nonsense is wiser than men's wisdom, and God's weakness is mightier than men's might.

It is because of God that you are in union with the Messiah Jesus, who for us has become wisdom from God, as well as our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.

None of the rulers of this world understood it, because if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

An unspiritual man does not accept the things that the Spirit of God teaches, for they are nonsense to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are appreciated by spiritual insight.

I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, because you weren't ready for it. And you're still not ready!

That's because you are still worldly. As long as there is jealousy and quarreling among you, you are worldly and living by human standards, aren't you?

For no one can lay any other foundation than what has been laid down. That foundation is Jesus Christ.

the character of each one's work will come to light, for the judgment day will show it up. This is so, because that day will show itself in fire, and the fire will test the character of each one's work.

For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not acquitted because of this. The one who judges me is the Lord.

And these things, brethren, I did transfer to myself and to Apollos because of you, that in us ye may learn not to think above that which hath been written, that ye may not be puffed up one for one against the other,

for I think that God did set forth us the apostles last -- as appointed to death, because a spectacle we became to the world, and messengers, and men;

we are fools because of Christ, and ye wise in Christ; we are ailing, and ye strong; ye glorious, and we dishonoured;

For though you may have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, because I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

because of this I sent to you Timotheus, who is my child, beloved and faithful in the Lord, who shall remind you of my ways in Christ, according as everywhere in every assembly I teach.

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?

Stay away from [any involvement in] sexual immorality. Every sin a person commits is outside [the realm] of his body; but the one who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. [Note: Possibly this means that sex, because it requires the deepest and most complete commitment of human involvement, becomes a unique sin when its true purpose and expression are violated].

because you were bought for a price. Therefore, glorify God with your bodies.

but because of so much sexual immorality every man should have a wife of his own, and every woman a husband of her own.

You husbands and wives must stop refusing each other what is due, unless you agree to do so just for awhile, so as to have plenty of time for prayer, and then to be together again, so as to keep Satan from tempting you because of your lack of self-control.

For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified because of her husband. Otherwise, your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

I suppose, therefore, this to be good because of the present necessity, that it is good for a man that the matter be thus: --

This I say, brethren, because the time is coming, when they who have wives will be as those that have none;

Now I say this for your profit; not to make things hard for you, but because of what is right, and so that you may be able to give all your attention to the things of the Lord.

Now, concerning the idol-sacrifices, we are aware - because we, all, have knowledge, - knowledge, puffeth up, but, love, buildeth up;

But it is not in all of you that such knowledge is found. Some, because of their past habits with idols, even down to the present moment, still eat such food as was really sacrificed to an idol, and so their consciences, because they are overscrupulous, are contaminated.

For if someone should see you who has knowledge reclining for a meal in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, [because it] is weak, be strengthened so that [he] eats the food sacrificed to idols?

and the brother who is infirm shall perish by thy knowledge, because of whom Christ died?

Wherefore if meat hurt my brother, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, because I will not hurt my brother.

Is He not really speaking on our behalf? Yes, indeed, this law was written on our behalf, because the plowman ought to plow and the thresher ought to thresh, in the hope of sharing in the crop.

For if I preach the gospel, yet I have no ground for boasting; because I am under necessity to do it: and wo is me if I do not preach the Gospel.

For if I do it of my own accord, I have my pay, but if I do it because I must, it is still a responsibility that I am charged with.

And this I do because of the good news, that a fellow-partaker of it I may become;

Does not the "cup of blessing," which we bless, signify a fellowship with Christ's [physical] blood? [Note: This was the cup used at the close of the Passover meal and was called this because of the prayer of thanksgiving offered for it. Paul refers to such a prayer in connection with its use in the Lord's Supper]. Does not the bread that we break signify a fellowship with Christ's [physical] body?

Because there is only one loaf, so we, though many, are only one body, for we all partake of one loaf.

Whatever in the meat-market is sold eat ye, not inquiring, because of the conscience,

and if any one of the unbelieving do call you, and ye wish to go, all that is set before you eat, nothing inquiring, because of the conscience;

and if any one may say to you, 'This is a thing sacrificed to an idol,' -- do not eat, because of that one who shewed it, and of the conscience, for the Lord's is the earth and its fulness:

If I eat with thankfulness, why should I be denounced because of what I am thankful for?

Because whether you are eating or whether you are drinking, you are to do it all for the glory of God.

Indeed I praise you for remembering me in everything, and because you are holding fast to the traditions just as you received them.

For a man ought not to wear anything on his head, because he is the image and reflected glory of God, but woman is man's reflected glory.

for a man also was not created because of the woman, but a woman because of the man;

For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.

and a woman, if she have long hair, a glory it is to her, because the hair instead of a covering hath been given to her;

But as I am giving you these instructions I cannot approve of your meetings, because they do not turn out for the better but for the worse.

because whoever eats and drinks without recognizing the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself.

Because of this, among you many are weak and sickly, and sleep do many;

But when we are judged of the Lord we are chastened, because we should not be damned with the world.

If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

For now [i.e., during the church's infant state] we see in a mirror [Note: God's word is elsewhere likened to a mirror. See James 1:22-25] indistinctly [i.e., because of having only partial knowledge and prophecy], but then [i.e., when the church matures and has the completed Scriptures], we will see face to face [i.e., clearly]. Now I have [only] partial knowledge, but then I will have full knowledge, just as [God has] full knowledge of me.

For the person who speaks in a foreign language is not actually speaking to people but to God. Indeed, no one understands him, because he is talking about secrets by the Spirit.

For otherwise, if you praise in [your] spirit, how will the one who fills the place of the outsider say the "amen" at your thanksgiving, because he does not know what you are saying?

because God is not a God of disorder but of peace [i.e., harmony]. As is the practice in all of the churches of the saints [i.e., God's holy people],

If they want to find out about something, they should ask their husbands at home, because it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in church.

For I am the least of all the apostles, which am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the congregation of God:

But I am whatever I am because of God's unearned favor, and the favor He showed me was not for nothing [i.e., Paul made the most of his conversion by being extra diligent in his service to God]. But I worked harder than all the other apostles, yet it was not I, but God's favor on me [that accomplished it].

Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.

For since death is because of a man, the resurrection of the dead is also because of a man.

For just as because of their relation to Adam all men die, so because of their relation to Christ they will all be brought to life again.

Otherwise, what will those people do who are being baptized because of those who have died? If the dead are not raised at all, why are they being baptized because of them?

If after the manner of men I have fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, of what advantage would it be to me, if the dead did not rise again? shall we eat and drink; because to-morrow we die?

Come to your senses and stop sinning, for some people are ignorant about God. I say this to your shame.

this I say, my brethren, because the body, as it is at present, cannot possess the kingdom of God; and what is corruptible, can't enjoy incorruptibility.

For this corruptible must be clothed
with incorruptibility,
and this mortal must be clothed
with immortality.

So, my dear brothers, continue to be firm, incapable of being moved, always letting the cup run over in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the service of the Lord is never thrown away.

I do not want to visit with you now just in passing, because I hope to spend a longer time with you if the Lord permits.

because a door has opened wide for me to do effective work, although many people are opposing me.

Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear; because he is doing the Lord's work, even as I am:

Therefore, no one should treat him with contempt. Send him on his way in peace so that he may come to me, because I am expecting him along with the brothers.

And I am glad that Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus have come to see me, because they have supplied what you lacked.