Now I beg you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to speak in accord, all of you, and to have no divisions among you, but to be knit together in a common mind and temper.

Yes, I did baptize the house of Stephanas also, but I do not think I baptized any one else.

For Christ did not think I baptized any one else. For Christ did not send me forth to baptize, but to proclaim the gospel; and that not in philosophic words, lest the Cross of Christ should be made an empty thing.

For the message of the Cross is indeed for those on their way to destruction, foolishness; but for us who are on our way to salvation it is the power of God.

but we come preaching a crucified Messiah??o Jews a stumbling-block, to Greeks foolishness,

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

for I determined to know nothing, while among you, but Jesus as Christ, and him a crucified Christ.

My message and my preaching were not in the persuasive language of philosophy, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power;

in order that your faith should rest, not on human philosophy, but on the power of God.

But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which comes forth from God, that we may realize the blessings freely given us by God.

Of these high themes we speak in words not taught by human philosophy, but by the Spirit; interpreting spiritual things to spiritual men.

But the spiritual man discerns everything, yet is himself discerned by no one.

As for me, brothers, I could not talk to you as spiritual men, but as to creatures of flesh, mere babes in Christ.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God made the seed grow.

So neither is he who planted anything, nor he who watered, but God alone, who is making the seed grow.

According to the grace of God vouchsafed me, like a skillful master-builder, I have laid a foundation; but another will be building upon it. Let each take heed how he builds on it.

If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, as it were through the flames.

But to me it matters very little that I am judged by you, or by any earthly court.

For who makes you a differ, brother? Or what have you that you did not receive? But if you did receive it, why are you boasting as if you had not received it?

But you, forsooth, are already full, are you? You are already rich? Without us you are already reigning? Yes, and I would that you did reign, so that we also might reign with you.

But it seems to me that God has exhibited us apostles, last of all, like men doomed to death; for we are made a spectacle to the whole world, both to men and to angels.

For Christ's sake we are fools, but you are quite philosophic in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong; you are honorable, but we are outcast.

I am not writing this to shame you, but to admonish you, as my beloved children.

For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ Jesus, you can have but one father. For in Christ Jesus I begot you through the gospel.

But come to you I will, and that soon, if it please the Lord, and then I shall learn not the talk of these boasters, but their power.

For the kingdom of God is not in talk, but in power.

So let us keep the unending feast, not with any old leaven, neither with leaven of malice and vice, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

But what I wrote was that you were not to associate with any so-called brother who is immoral, or avaricious, or idolatrous, or abusive, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. No, with such persons do not even sit at table.

Such were some of you, but you have washed away your stains, you have been consecrated, you have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

"All things are lawful for me"? Yes, but not all things are good for me. "All things are lawful for me"? Yes, but I will not let myself be enslaved by the power of any.

"Food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for food"? Yes, but God will soon put an end both to the one and to the other. The body, however, exists not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

Flee from immorality. Every other sin that a man commits lies outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

You are not your own; for you have been bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your bodies.

but because there is so much immorality let each man have his own wife; and let each women have her own husband.

but her husband is; and in the same way the husband is not master of his own person, but his wife is.

But what I have just said is by way of concession, not command.

I would that every one lived as I do; but each man has his own special gift from God, one this, another that.

But to the unmarried, and the widows, I say that it is well for them to remain as I am.

But to those already married my commandment is??nd not mine, but the Lord's??hat a wife is not to leave her husband;

(or if she has already left him let her either remain as she is, or be reconciled to him), and also that a husband is not to put away his wife.

For the unbelieving husband is consecrated through union with his believing wife; and the unbelieving wife, through union with her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unholy, but now they are consecrated to God.

But if the unbelieving partner be determined to leave, separation let it be. In such cases the believing husband or wife is not under bondage. But it is into peace that God has called us.

Were you called in slavery? Let not that trouble you; but if you can become free make use of the opportunity.

I have no command from the Lord to give you concerning unmarried women; but I give you my opinion, and it is that of a man who, through the Lord's mercy, is deserving of your confidence.

but a married man is anxious about worldly affairs, how he may please his wife, and he is divided in his mind.

Again, the woman who is widow, or the maid, is anxious about the Lord's business, how she may be pure in body and in mind; but the married woman is anxious about worldly affairs, how she may please her husband.

It is in your own interest that I say this; not that I may entangle you in a snare, but that I may help you to serve the Lord with fitting and undistracted service.

On the other hand, he who is firm in his purpose and is under no compulsion, but is free to carry out his own wishes, and who has determined to keep his daughter unmarried, does well.

A wife is bound to her husband during his lifetime; but if her husband dies, she is free to marry whomever she will, provided it be in the Lord.

But she is happier, in my judgment, if she remains as she is; and I think that I, too, have the Spirit of God.

Now in regard to food which has been offered to idols, we are sure of course that "we all have knowledge." But knowledge puffs up, while love builds up.

but if a man loves God, he is known by him.

Now as to eating food that has been offered to idols, we know well that an idol has no real existence in the universe, and that there is no God but One.

But that "knowledge" is not possessed by all; but some, accustomed until now to the idol, eat food as that which has actually been offered to an idol, and so their conscience, being still weak, is defiled.

But see to it lest this right of yours become a stumbling-block to the weak.

If others share this authority over you, do not I far more? Yet I have not availed myself of it, but am patiently enduring; so that I may not in any way hinder the progress of Christ's gospel.

But for my part, I have never availed myself of any of these rights. I do not say this to bring it about in my own case. I would rather die than let any one make void this boast of mine.

For if I do this of my own accord, I have my pay; but if unwilling, I have at least discharged my stewardship.

to those outside the Law, as one outside the Law, to win those outside the Law (though I am not outside the law of God, but inside the law of Christ).

Every man who contends in the games continually trains himself by all manner of self-restraint. Now they do it to get a fading garland, but we, one that is unfading.

but I bruise my body and keep it in subjection, lest having called others to the contest, I should myself be disqualified.

But in most of them God was not well pleased, for they were laid low in the desert.

Now these things were happening to them typically, but were written down for our admonition who stand at the meeting of the ages.

No temptation has overtaken you that is beyond man's power; but God is faithful, who will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear, but will, with every temptation, provide the way of escape also, so that you may be able to withstand.

"All things are lawful," you say? But not all things are expedient; "all things are lawful"; but not all build up.

Let not each one be always seeking his own, but rather his neighbor's good.

But if any one tells you, "This food has been offered in sacrifice," do not eat it, for the sake of him who told you,

and for your conscience sake??is conscience, not your own. "But," you may object, "why should my freedom be decided upon another's scruples of conscience?

For so I also try to please all men in every way, not by seeking my own good, but the good of the many, that they may be saved.

But I wish you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and of a wife her husband is head; and that God is head of Christ.

but every woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled dishonors her head (her husband). for it is one and the same thing as if she were shaven.

A man, indeed, ought not to have his head veiled, for he is an image and glory of God; but woman is a glory of man.

For it is not man who was made from woman, but woman was made from man.

And man was not created for woman, but woman for man.

but it is woman's glory, because her hair has been given her instead of a veil.

But in giving you the following instructions, I cannot praise you; your solemn assemblies do more harm than good.

but through our condemnation by the Lord, we are trained so that we may not be condemned;

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

But the one and the same Spirit gives power to all, distributing his gifts to each as he wills.

For the body is not one member, but many.

But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body as it has pleased him.

But now there are many members, but one body.

that there should be no disunion in the body, but that members mutual care for one another.

Though I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have no love, I am become a clanging brass, or a clashing cymbal.

Though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

And though I sell all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it avails me nothing.

but rejoices when the truth rejoices.

Love never fails; but though there are prophecies, they will fail; though there are tongues, they will cease; though there is knowledge, it will be superseded.

but when the perfect is come, then the perfect will be done away.

For now we see as in a mirror, and are baffled, but then face to face; now I know in fragments, but then shall I understand even as I also have been understood.

Faith, Hope, Love endure??hese three; but the greatest of these is Love.

For he who speaks in a "tongue" speaks not to man but to God, for no one understands him, but in the Spirit he utters secret truths.

But he who prophesies addresses words to men that build up, encourage, and console.

He who speaks in a tongue upbuilds himself; but he who prophesies upbuilds the church.

Now I should like you all to speak with "tongues"; but I should rather that you prophesied, For he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks with tongues, unless he interprets, so that the church may be built up.

For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is barren.

What then? I will pray with my spirit, and I will pray also with my mind. I will praise God with my spirit, but I will praise him with my mind, also.

You on the one hand offer a good thanksgiving, but the other is not built up.

but in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, so as to instruct others, than ten thousand in an unknown tongue.

Brothers, do not become children in understanding; be babes in malice, but in understanding become mature men.