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

to the Church of God at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, together with all, wherever they are, who call upon the name of the Lord Jesus.

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

I am always thanking God on your behalf, for the grace of God bestowed on you in Christ Jesus;

Faithful is the God by whom you were called into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

I am thankful to God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius,

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.

Sage, rabbi, skeptic of this present age??here are they all? Has not God made foolish the philosophy of the world?

For when, in the wisdom of God, the world by its philosophy knew not God, the world by its philosophy knew not God, it pleased God, by the foolishness of preaching, to save those who believe.

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

For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

No, God has chosen the world's folly to confound its philosophy; and the world's weakness to confound its strength.

The world's base things has God chosen, and the things that are not, to bring to naught the things that are;

It is of him that you are in Christ Jesus, whom God made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

And when I came to you, brothers, I came not to proclaim God's great secret purpose in fine language of philosophy;

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

No, it is God's wisdom that I utter, that hidden wisdom which God had decreed before the world began, unto our glory.

Nay, as it is written. Eye has not seen, Nor ear heard, Neither have entered into man's heart The things which God has prepared For those who love him.

Yet God has unveiled them to us by his Spirit. For the Spirit fathoms everything, even the abysmal depths of God.

For what man knows the depths of man except the man's own inner Spirit? Even so, also, the Spirit of God knows the deeps profound 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.

The unspiritual man rejects the teachings of God's Spirit; for him it is folly. He cannot understand it, for it is spiritually discerned,

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.

For we are God's fellow workers; and you are God's field, you are God's building.

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.

Do you not know what you are God's sanctuary, and that the Spirit of God is dwelling within you?

If any one tear down God's sanctuary, God will tear him down; for the sanctuary of God is holy, and that is what you are.

For the philosophy of this world is foolishness in God's sight. It is written, He snares the wise in their own craftiness,

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

Let any man look upon us as servants of Christ, and stewards of the secret truths of God.

So make no hasty judgment until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make plain the purpose of men's hearts. Then each man's due praise will come to him from God.

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

Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that even a little leaven leavens all the lump?

Then get rid of the old leaven, so that you may be like a new lump, as you are now unleavened. For our Paschal Lamb has already been sacrificed, Christ himself.

What have I to do with the judging of outsiders? Must not you judge those who are within the church, while God judges outsiders?

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. None who are immoral, or idolaters, or adulterers, or catamites, or sodomites,

or thieves, or avaricious men, or drunkards, or foul-mouthed men, or extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.

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;

and the God who raised up our Lord will up-raise us also by his mighty power.

You know, do you not, that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid!

Do you not know that he who joins himself to a harlot is one with her in body? (For God says, The two shall become one flesh.)

Do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you, the Spirit whom you have from God?

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

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

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.

Only whatever be the lot in life to which God has assigned each one??nd whatever the condition in which he was living when God called him??n that let him continue. Such is the rule I give in all the churches.

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God's commands in everything.

Where each man stood when he was called, there, brothers, let him stay, close to God.

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

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.

yet for there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

Now food does not bring us nearness to God. Neither if we eat do we gain any advantage, nor if we eat not, do we lose any.

Is it the oxen that God is thinking about, or is it really said for our sakes? It was written for us; because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher in hope of getting a share of the crop.

If I have sown for you the seeds of spiritual good, is it a great thing if I reap from you temporal goods?

You know, do you not, that those who minister in the temple, and those who serve at the altar, get their portion of the sacrifices?

Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel.

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

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.

On the contrary, what the heathen sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have communion with demons.

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

Because whether you are eating or whether you are drinking, you are to do it all for the glory of God.

Do not be a cause of stumbling either to Jews of to Gentiles, or to the church of God.

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.

If a woman does not wear a veil, let her also cut off her hair; now if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, let her be veiled.

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 just as the woman was made from the man, so also is the man born of the woman, while they both come from God.

Judge of this for your own selves. It is fitting that a woman should pray to God with her head unveiled.

If, however, any one is inclined to be disputatious regarding such a custom, let him know that neither I nor the churches of God hold to such a custom.

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

For there must needs be also parties among you, in order that the good may be tested and made known.

What! Have you no houses in which to eat or drink? or do you wish to show your contempt for the church of God, and to shame those who have no homes to eat in? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I certainly do not praise you.

Wherefore I want you to understand that no one who speaks in the Spirit of God says, "Jesus is accursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except in the Holy Spirit.

and varieties of work, and the same God, who works in all.

Now to each man has been given his manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.

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

For whereas our comely parts have no need, God has tempered the body together, giving more abundant honor to that member in which lacked;

And God has appointed those in the church to be first of all apostles, second, prophets, third, teachers. then workers of miracles, healers, helpers, administrators, users of various kinds of "tongues."

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.

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.

For if you in your spirit bless God, how shall he who fills the place of the unlearned say the Amen to your thanksgiving, when he does not know what you are talking about?

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

Thank God I speak with tongues more than you all,

and the secret depths of his heart are laid open. So he will fall upon his face and worship God, saying, "Of a truth, God is with you."

But if there is no one to interpret, let them keep silence in the church, and speak to themselves and to God.

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. This custom prevails in all the churches of the saints.

What, was it from you that the word of God went forth, or to you only did it come?

For I am the least of the apostles, I who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and that grace of his, bestowed upon me, did not prove ineffectual. I labored more abundantly than all the rest, yet not I, but by the grace of God that is with me.

More than that, we are detected in bearing false witness against God; because we testified of God that he raised Christ from the dead, whom he did not raise, if indeed the dead rise not.

And then the end, when he shall hand over his kingdom to God his Father, after he has abolished all rule and authority and power.

For He hast put all things under his feet, but in that quotation All things are put under him, it is evident that God is excepted, who put all things under Him.