To the church of God being in Corinth, to the consecrated in Christ Jesus, to the Called holy ones, with all calling upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

And the ignoble things of the world, and the despised things, has God chosen, and things not being, that the things being he might leave unemployed:

But we speak wisdom among the perfected: and the wisdom not of this life, nor of the rulers of this life, they being left unemployed:

And we are wearied, working with our own hands: being reviled, we praise; being driven out, we hold up

Being defamed, we entreat: as the filth of the world were we become, the offscouring of all until now.

For I truly, as being at a distance in body, and being present in spirit, have already, as being present, judged him having so worked this.

And this I say for the advantage of yourselves; not that I shall cast a net upon you, but for the becoming, and occupied assiduously for the Lord without being turned away.

But not in all, knowledge: and some with consciousness of the idol even till now eat as a sacrifice to idols: and their consciousness being weak is contaminated.

For if any one see thee having knowledge reclining in the idol's temple, shall not his consciousness, being weak, be built up to eat the sacrifices to idols;

For being free from all, I have subjected myself to all, that I might gain the more.

To the lawless, as lawless, (not being lawless to God, but subject to the law to Christ,) that I might gain the lawless,

Every thing being sold in the market, eat, ye, interrogating nothing through consciousness:

For truly the man ought not to have the head covered, being the image and glory of God: and the woman is the glory of the man.

And being judged, we are corrected of the Lord, lest we be condemned with the world.

Ye know that ye were the nations, to dumb idols, as ye were led, being carried away.

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, is one body: so also is Christ.

For what shall they do being immersed for the dead, if in fine the dead rise not? and why are they immersed for the dead?