PAUL, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother,

to the church of God which is at Corinth, to the sanctified in Jesus Christ, called to be saints, with all that call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours.

Grace and peace be to you from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

God is faithful by whom you are called into the society of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

I exhort you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected in the same mind and the same will.

For I have been informed of you, my brothers, by the family of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

For Christ sent me not to baptize but to preach the good news, not with a wisdom of speech lest the cross of Christ should be without effect.

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God, God was pleased by the foolishness of preaching to save those that believe;

that your faith might not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

but God has revealed them to us by his Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.

And we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we may know the things given us by God,

which we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

But the spiritual man discerns all things, and is himself perceived by no one.

Who then is Apollos? and who is Paul? but ministers by whom you believed, and to each as the Lord gave.

each one's work shall be manifest; for the day shall show it, because it shall be revealed by fire, and the same fire shall try every man's work what it is.

if any one's work is consumed, he shall suffer loss, and he shall be saved, but so as by fire.

Let no one deceive himself; if any one seems to be wise among you in this life, let him be a fool, that he may be wise.

But, moreover, it is required of stewards that one should be found faithful.

But it is of little account to me that I should be judged by you or by man's day [judgment]; but I judge not myself;

I have applied these things figuratively, brothers, to myself and Apollos on your account, that you may learn by us not to [go beyond] what is written, that you may not be puffed up for one against another.

For if you have ten thousand teachers in Christ still you have not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you by the gospel.

I exhort you therefore, be followers of me.

And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed should be removed from among you.

to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

Remove the old leaven, that you may be a new mass, as you are unleavened; for Christ our passover was also sacrificed for us.

Dare any of you having a business with another be judged by the wicked, and not by the saints?

Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy of the lowest courts?

Now therefore there is a great fault among you, that you go to law one with another. Why not rather suffer injustice? why not rather be defrauded?

Know you not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor sodomites,

And such were some of you; but you are washed, you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

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

and God both raised the Lord, and will raise us up by his power.

Know you not that your bodies are Christ's members? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them a harlot's members? by no means.

Know you not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body [with her]? For the two, says he, shall be one flesh.

Withhold not yourselves from one another, except by agreement for a time that you may be at leisure for prayer, and come together again, that Satan may not tempt you by your incontinence.

But this I say by suggestion, not by command.

but if they have not self-control, let them marry; it is better to marry than to be incontinent.

and also if she is separated let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to the husband, and let not a husband leave his wife.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the brother; else were your children impure, but now are they holy.

Is any one called being circumcised, let him not be uncircumcised; is any one called in uncircumcision, let him not be circumcised.

were you called being a servant, care not for it; but if you can be free, use it rather.

You are bought with a price; be not servants of men.

And concerning the virgins I have no ordinance of the Lord, but I give an opinion as one that has obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

I think then that this is good on account of the present necessity, because it is good for man to be so.

But this I say, brothers, the time is short, so that in future those who have wives should be as those not having them,

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

But I wish you to be without cares. The unmarried man cares for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord;

And the wife and the virgin are different; the unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body and spirit; but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.

But if any one thinks that he behaves improperly to his virgin, if she is past her prime, and it must be so, let him do what he wishes; he does not sin; let them marry.

A woman is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband is dead then she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

but if any one loves God, this [man] is known by him.

For if any one sees you who have knowledge reclining in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him that is weak be emboldened to eat things offered to idols?

And will not the weak brother for whom Christ died perish by your knowledge?

So also the Lord has appointed to those who preach the gospel to live by the gospel.

But I have used none of these things, and I have not written these things that it should be so done to me; for I prefer to die, rather than that any one should make my boasting vain.

and I do all things for the sake of the gospel, that I may be a partaker of it.

but I brow-beat my body, and bring it into subjection, lest having preached to others I should myself be a reprobate.

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

and all were baptized to Moses by the cloud and by the sea,

Neither be idolaters, as some of them were, as it is written; The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

Neither let us try Christ, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents.

Neither do you complain as some of them complained and were destroyed by the destroyer.

For no trial has befallen you but what is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not permit you to be tried beyond what you are able, but with the trial will order the event, that you may be able to endure.

But what the gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God; and I do not wish you to be partakers with demons.

I mean not your conscience, but that of the other. For why is my freedom limited by the conscience of another?

Be without offense both to Jews and Greeks, and the church of God,

as I also please all in all things, not seeking my own profit but that of many, that they may be saved.

Be followers of me as I also am of Christ.

For if a woman is not veiled then let her hair be cut off; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off, or to be shaved, let her wear a veil.

But if any one is disposed to be contentious, we have no such custom neither have the churches of God.

For it is necessary that there should be heresies among you, that the approved may be manifest among you.

For if we judged ourselves we should not be judged;

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

AND I wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, of the spiritual gifts.

I assure you, therefore, that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus an accursed thing, and no one can call Jesus Lord, except by the Holy Spirit.

For to one is given by the Spirit a word of wisdom, and to another a word of knowledge by the same Spirit,

and to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of performing cures by the same Spirit,

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

But if all were one member, where would be the body?

but much more those members of the body which seem to be weak are necessary,

and those which we esteem to be less honorable members of the body, on these we bestow more abundant honor, and our uncomely members have more abundant comeliness,

that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another.

And if I deal out all my property to feed the poor, and if I deliver my body to be burned, and have not love, I shall not be profited.

For now we see by a mirror darkly, but then we shall see face to face; now I know in part, but then I shall know fully as I also am known.

Cherish love, and be earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, but rather that you may prophesy.

But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I speak to you by a revelation, or by a knowledge, or by a prophecy, or by a doctrine?

So of irrational objects making a sound, whether a flute or harp; if it makes no distinction of sounds, how shall it be known what is played on the flute or harp?

So also you by a tongue if you utter a word not easily understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for you will speak to the air.

if therefore I do not know the meaning of the voice, I shall be to him that speaks a barbarian, and he that speaks will be a barbarian to me.

What then is [to be done]? I will pray with the spirit, I will pray also with the understanding; I will sing with the spirit, I will sing also with the understanding;

Brothers, be not children in understanding, but in malice be children, and in understanding be perfect men.

But if all prophesy, and there comes in an unbeliever or an unlearned man, he is convinced by all, he is examined by all,

What then is [to be done] brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a doctrine, has a revelation, has an interpretation; let all things be done for edification.

If any one speaks with a tongue, let it be by two or at most by three, and by turns, and let one interpret;

and if there is no interpreter, let him be silent in the assembly, and let him speak to himself and to God.

but if any thing is revealed to another sitting by, let the first be silent.

For you can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all be comforted.

As in all the churches of the saints, let your women keep silence in the assemblies; for it is not permitted to them to speak, but to be in subjection, as the law also says.

but if any one is ignorant, let him be ignorant.

but let all things be done becomingly and in order.