Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,

to the church of God which is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called out with all those in every place who call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours.

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

I thank my God always on your behalf for the grace of God given you in Jesus Christ,

God is faithful, by whom you were called to the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

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

For the preaching of the cross is foolishness to those being lost, but to us being saved, it is the power of God.

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom did not know God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.

But to them, the called-out ones, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.

Because the foolish thing of God is wiser than men, and the weak thing of God is stronger than men.

But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

and God has chosen the base things of the world, and things which are despised, and things which are not, in order to bring to nothing things that are;

But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who of God is made to us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption;

And I, brothers, when I came to you, did not come with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God.

so that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, which God has hidden, predetermining it before the world for our glory;

But as it is written, "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard," nor has it entered into the heart of man, "the things which God has prepared for those who love Him."

But God has revealed them to us by His Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God.

For who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of man within him? So also no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit from God, so that we might know the things that are freely given to us by God.

But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

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

So then neither is he who plants anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

For of God we are fellow-workers, a field of God, and you are a building of God.

According to the grace of God which is given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let every man be careful how he builds on it.

Do you not know that you are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

If anyone defiles the temple of God, God shall destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which you are.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it is written, "He takes the wise in their own craftiness."

and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.

So let a man think of us as ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts. And then shall each one have praise of God.

For I think that God has set forth us last, the apostles, as it were appointed to death; for we have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to men.

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

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

But God judges those who are outside. Therefore put out from you the evil one.

Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor abusers, nor homosexuals,

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

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

Meats for the belly and the belly for meats, but God shall destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord is for the body.

And God has both raised up the Lord, and also will raise us up by His own power.

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, whom you have of God? And you are not your own,

for you are bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

Now concerning what you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

For I would that all men were even as I myself am. But each has his proper gift from God, one according to this manner and another according to that.

I say therefore to the unmarried and the widows, It is good for them if they remain even as I.

But if the unbelieving one separates, let him be separated. A brother or a sister is not in bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

But as God has distributed to each one, as the Lord has called each one, so let him walk. And so I ordain in all churches.

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

Each in whatever way he was called, brothers, in this remain with God.

Then I think this is good, because of the present necessity; that it is good for a man to be so.

But she is happier if she so remains, according to my judgment. And I also think that I have the Spirit of God.

But if any one loves God, he has been known of him.

Then concerning the eating of the things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one.

but there is to us only one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we by Him.

But food does not commend us to God. For neither if we eat are we the better, nor if we do not eat are we the worse.

For it is written in the Law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox threshing grain." Does God take care for oxen?

But I have used none of these things, nor have I written these things that it should be done so to me; for it is good for me rather to die than that anyone nullify my glorying.

To those who are outside Law, I became as outside Law (not being outside law to God, but under the Law to Christ), so that I might gain those who are outside Law.

But with many of them God was not well pleased, for they were scattered in the wilderness.

No temptation has taken you but what is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but with the temptation also will make a way to escape, so that you may be able to bear it.

But I say that the things which the nations sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. And I do not desire that you should have fellowship with demons.

Therefore whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Give no offense, either to the Jews, or to the Greeks or to the church of God;

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man.

For as the woman is of the man, even so the man is also through the woman; but all things of God.

Judge among yourselves: is it right that a woman pray to God unveiled?

But if anyone seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor the churches of God.

For do you not have houses in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God, and shame those who do not have? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you for this? I do not praise you!

Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says Jesus is a curse, and that no one can say that Jesus is Lord, but by the Holy Spirit.

And there are differences of workings, but it is the same God working all things in all.

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

For our presentable members have no need, but God tempered the body together, giving more abundant honor to the member having need;

And God set some in the church, firstly, apostles; secondly, prophets; thirdly, teachers, then works of power, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, kinds of languages.

For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God. For no one hears, but in spirit he speaks mysteries.

I thank my God that I speak more languages than all of you;

And so the secrets of his heart become revealed. And so, falling down on his face, he will worship God and report that God is truly among you.

But if there is no interpreter, let him be silent in a church; and let him speak to himself and to God.

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

Or did the Word of God go out from you? Or did it reach only to you?

For I am the least of the apostles and am not sufficient 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 toward me has not been without fruit, but I labored more abundantly than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

And we are also found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified of God that He raised Christ; whom He did not raise if the dead are not raised.

then is the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God, even the Father; when He makes to cease all rule and all authority and power.

But when all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subject to Him who has subjected all things to Him, so that God may be all things in all.

Do not be deceived; evil companionships corrupt good habits.

Be righteously awake, and sin not; for some have ignorance of God. I speak this to your shame.

And God gives it a body as it has pleased Him, and to each of the seeds its own body.

And I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit incorruption.

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