Now I beseech you, brothers, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and there be no divisions among you, but ye may be thoroughly prepared in the same mind and in the same understanding.

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

For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to preach the good-news, not in wisdom of speech lest the cross of Christ would be emptied.

so that your faith would not be in wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

But we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the spirit from God, so that we might know the things graciously given to us by God.

But truly the spiritual man evaluates all things, but he himself is evaluated by none.

each man's work will become manifest. For the day will make it known, because it is revealed by fire. And the fire will test each man's work of what kind it is.

If any man's work will be burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but so as through fire.

Let not one man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he may become wise.

And beyond that, it is sought in managers that any man should be found faithful.

But it is a very small thing to me that I might be appraised by you or by a day of mankind. Yet neither do I appraise myself,

Now these things, brothers, I applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that in us ye might learn not to think above that which is written, so that ye may not be puffed up, one over the one against the other.

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.

to deliver such a man to Satan for destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

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.

Therefore we should feast, not by old leaven, nor by leaven of evil and wickedness, but by non-leaven of sincerity and truth.

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.

I speak shame about you. So there is not among you not even one wise man who will be able to arbitrate between his brother?

Now therefore it is indeed altogether a defeat for you because ye have legal disputes against yourselves. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

Or know ye not that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not led astray. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate men, nor homosexuals,

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.

Or know ye not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For, The two, he says, will be in one flesh.

For I wish all men to be even as myself. However each man has his own gift from God, one in this way, and another after that.

But even if she separates, she shall remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband is not to leave his wife.

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.

Was any man called circumcised? He should not become uncircumcised. Was any man called in uncircumcision? He should not be circumcised.

Now concerning the virgins I have no commandment of Lord, but I give an opinion, as having obtained mercy from Lord to be trustworthy.

I suppose therefore this to be good because of the present distress, that it is good for a man to be this way:

But this I say, brothers, the time is shortened. It is the remaining, so that also those who have wives may be as not having,

and those who weep, as not weeping, and those who rejoice, as not rejoicing, and those who buy, as not possessing,

But I want you to be without worry. The unmarried man cares for things of the Lord, how he will please the Lord.

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

A wife is bound by law as long a time as her husband lives, but also if the husband should sleep, she is free to be married to whom she desires, only in Lord.

But if any man loves God, this man is known by him.

For if some man sees thee, who have knowledge, dining in an idol-temple, will not his conscience, being weak, be strengthened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

And by thy knowledge the brother, being weak, will be ruined, for whom Christ died.

Or have only I and Barnabas no right not to be occupied earning a living?

But I have used none of these things, and I did not write these things so that it should be done to me this way. For it is good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my boasting empty.

To the weak I became as weak, so that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, so that by all means I might save some.

But I want you not to be ignorant, brothers, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,

But these things became our examples, for us not to be men who lust for evil things as those also lusted.

Nor should we challenge the Christ as some of them also challenged, and were destroyed by the serpents.

And ye should not grumble as some of them grumbled, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

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.

Ye cannot drink the cup of Lord, and the cup of demons. Ye cannot be partakers of a table of Lord, and of a table of demons.

And I say conscience, not the one of himself, but the one of the other man. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

just as I also strive to please in all things for all men, not seeking my own advantage, but that of the many, so that they may be saved.

For if a woman is not covered, let her also shear herself. But if it is an ugly thing for a woman to shear herself or be shaven, she should be covered.

But if any man appears to be a lover of strife, we have no such custom, nor the congregations of God.

For there must also be factions among you, so that the genuine may become apparent among you.

Therefore whoever may eat this bread or drink the cup of the Lord unworthily of the Lord, will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.

But if we were discerning ourselves we would not be judged.

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

Now concerning the spiritual things, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant.

Therefore I make known to you, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God says, Jesus is accursed, and no man can say, Jesus is Lord, except by Holy Spirit.

to a different man, faith by the same Spirit, and to another, gifts of healings by the same Spirit,

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.

If the foot should say, Because I am not a hand I am not of the body, it is not by this not of the body.

And if the ear should say, Because I am not an eye I am not of the body, it is not by this not of the body.

If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?

And if they were all one part, where would be the body?

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

And those things of the body presumed to be without esteem, we place around these more abundant worth. And our unpresentable parts have more abundant propriety,

so that there would be no schisms in the body, but that the parts would have the same care for each other.

But be zealous for the better gifts. And yet I show you a more excellent way.

And if I dole out all things possessed by me, and if I deliver my body so that I may be burned, and have not love, I benefit nothing.

Love never fails. But whether prophecies, they will be abolished, whether tongues, they will cease, whether knowledge, it will be abolished.

but when the perfect comes, then what is in part will be abolished.

For now we see by polished metal, in dimness, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know just as also I was known.

Pursue love, and be zealous for the spiritual things, but more that ye may prophesy.

Likewise lifeless things that give a sound, whether flute or harp, if they give no distinction in the sounds, how will it be known what is being piped or harped?

So also ye, unless ye give understandable speech by the tongue, how will that which is spoken be known? For ye will be talking into the air.

If therefore I know not the force of the voice, I will be a foreigner to him who speaks, and he who speaks will be a foreigner to me.

Brothers, become not children in your thoughts. Instead be childlike in wickedness, but in your thoughts become mature.

But if all prophesy, and some unbelieving or unlearned man comes in, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all.

What is it therefore, brothers? When ye come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification.

If any man speaks in a tongue, be according to two, or at the most three, and in succession. And let one interpret.

But if it should be revealed to another man who is seated, let the first be silent.

For ye can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn, and all may be encouraged.

As in all the churches of the sanctified, let the women keep silent in the churches. For it is not permitted for them to speak, but to be subordinate, as the law also says.

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

But if any man is ignorant, let him be ignorant.

Therefore brothers, be zealous for prophesying, and do not forbid to speak in tongues.

Let all things be done decently and in order.

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

For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. And his grace for me did not become empty, but I labored more abundantly than them all, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

For as by Adam all die, so also by Christ all will be made alive.

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.

By the pride that belongs to you, that I keep in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

Be not led astray. Evil associations corrupt good habits.

Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will actually not all sleep, but we will all be transformed,

in an instant, in the blink of an eye, at the last trumpet. For it will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be transformed.

Upon the first day of the week let each of you set something aside near himself, storing up whatever he may prosper, so that when I come no collections may be made then.

And when I arrive, whomever ye may approve by letters, I will send these men to bring your gift to Jerusalem.

And it may be that I will remain with you, or I will even spend winter, so that ye may set me on my way wherever I go.

Watch ye, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

Let all things of you be done in love.

that ye also be subject to such men, and to every man working together and laboring.