PAUL, a called apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Sosthenes a brother,

to the church of God which is at Corinth, sanctified in Christ Jesus, to the called saints, with all those who invoke the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both their's and our's:

grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

I give thanks to my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which hath been given you in Christ Jesus;

Faithful is God, by whom ye have been called into communion with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

I thank God that I baptised none of you, except Crispus and Gaius;

For the discourse, [the subject of which is] the cross, is indeed to those who perish, folly; but to us who are saved it is the power of God.

Where is the sophist? where is the scribe? where is the inquisitive searcher after this world's wisdom? hath not God turned into folly the wisdom of this world?

for since in the wisdom of God the world by its wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

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

For this foolishness of God is wiser than men; and this weakness of God is stronger than men.

but the foolish things of this world hath God elected, that he might confound the wise; and the feeble things of the world hath God elected, that he might confound the mighty;

and the ignoble things of the world, and the despicable, hath God elected, and the things that are not, to bring to nought the things which are,

But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who hath been made to us of God wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

AND I, when I came to you, brethren, came not with superior excellence of discourse or wisdom, preaching unto you the gospel of God.

that your faith might not stand on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.

but we speak the wisdom of God, which had been hid in mystery, which God predestined before the worlds were, for our glory:

But, as it is written, "The things which eye hath not seen, and ear hath not heard, and that have not entered into the heart of man, these hath God prepared for those who love him."

But to us hath God revealed them by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth out all things, even the depths of God.

For who among men knoweth the things of man, save the spirit of man which is in him? so also the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

Which things also we speak, not in discourses framed by human wisdom, but taught by the Spirit of God; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are folly to him: and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

So then neither is he that planteth any thing, nor he that watereth; but God who giveth the increase.

For we are God's fellowlabourers: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

According to the grace of God given unto me, as a skilful architect, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every one take heed how he buildeth upon it.

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

If any man prophane the temple of God, him will God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

For the wisdom of this world is folly in the sight of God. For it is written, "He entangleth the wise in their own craftiness."

and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.

LET a man so account of us, as the under servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Wherefore judge nothing before the time until the Lord come, who also will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will manifest the counsels of men's hearts; and then shall praise be given to each from God.

For I think that God hath exposed us his apostles the last as devoted unto death. For we have been made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men.

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

Your glorying is not good: know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole mass?

But those who are without God judgeth. Put then away that wicked man from among yourselves.

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

nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Yet such were some of you: but ye have been washed, but ye have been sanctified, but ye have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the spirit of our God.

Meats are for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

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

Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Taking then the members of Christ, shall I make them members of an harlot? God forbid.

Do ye not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own?

For ye have been bought with a price: glorify then God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

NOW with regard to those things concerning which ye have written unto me, it were good for a man not to touch a woman.

For I would that all men were even as myself: but every man hath his peculiar gift from God, one of this sort, and another of that.

But if the unbelieving person depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in these cases, but God hath called us unto peace.

Nevertheless as God has bestowed the gift on every man as the Lord hath called every man, so let him walk, and so I give command in all the churches.

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the observance of the commandments of God.

Let every one, brethren, in the vocation wherein he is called, therein abide with God.

But she is more blessed if she abide as she is, in my opinion: and I think I have the spirit of God.

But if any man love God, the same is known of him.

Now concerning eating things sacrificed unto idols: we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

but to us there is one God, the Father; of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither if we eat are we the better, or if we eat not are we the worse.

for in the law of Moses it is written, "Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox which treadeth out the corn." Doth God take care for oxen?

to those who are without law, as without law (not as being without law to God, but under the law to Christ), that I might gain those who were without law.

Nevertheless with the most of them God was not well pleased, for they were destroyed in the wilderness.

No temptation hath overtaken you, but what is common to men. And God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted beyond what ye are able to bear; but will with the temptation make also a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear up under it.

But that what the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to daemons, and not to God: and I would not have you in communion with daemons.

Let no man seek his own gratification, but every one another's good.

Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all things to the glory of God.

Give no occasion of stumbling either to the Jews or the Gentiles, or the church of God:

But I desire you to take notice that the head of every man is Christ; but the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

For a man indeed ought not to veil his head, being the image and the glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man.

For as the woman was taken out of the man, so also is the man by the woman: but all things are of God.

Judge among yourselves, is it decent for a woman to be praying to God without a covering?

But if any man mean to be contentious about it, we have no such custom, nor the churches of God.

What! have ye not houses to eat in and to drink? or despise ye the church of God, and make those ashamed who have none? What shall I say unto you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.

Wherefore I advertise you, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God, call Jesus anathema: and no man can say, Lord Jesus, but by the Holy Ghost.

And there are diversities of mighty operations, but it is the same God who worketh all in all.

But now hath God placed the members, every one of them in the body, as he hath chosen.

For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered together the body, giving more abundant honour to that part which lacked:

And these also hath God placed in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, next miracles, then gifts of healings, helpers, directors, different kinds of tongues.

For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue, speaketh not to men, but to God: for no man understandeth him; although in spirit he speaketh mysterious truths.

Else, though thou bless God in spirit, how shall he who filleth the place of an illiterate man, say Amen after thy thanksgiving, seeing he knoweth not what thou sayest?

For thou indeed givest thanks to God well, but another man is not edified by it.

I thank my God, that I speak with different tongues more than you all:

and thus the secrets of his heart are made manifest; and so falling down on his face, he will worship God, declaring that God verily is among you.

But if there be not an interpreter, let him be silent in the church; but let him speak to himself and to God.

For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all the churches of his saints.

Went the word of God from you? or came it unto you only?

For I am the least of the apostles, who am not meet 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 which was given to me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Yea, and we also are found false witnesses for God; because we have testified on the behalf of God, that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if indeed the dead are not raised.

Then cometh the end, when he shall deliver up the kingdom to God, and the Father; when he shall have destroyed every dominion and every authority and power.

But when he shall have put all things under him, then also the Son himself shall be subjected to him who put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

Be not deceived: evil conversations corrupt good manners.

Awake as the righteous, and sin not; for some have an ignorance of God: I speak this to your shame.

but God giveth it a body as he pleaseth, and to each of the seeds its peculiar body.

But this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God: neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

But thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

As concerning brother Apollos, I besought him much that he would come to you with the brethren; but it was not at all his wish to come at this time: but he will come when he can find a good opportunity.