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.

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

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

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

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 the word of the cross is to the lost foolishness, but to the saved the power of God.

Where is the wise? where the scribe? where the disputer of this life? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

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;

but to the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and wisdom of God;

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

but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world has God chosen to put to shame the mighty,

and the ignoble things of the world and things that are despised has God chosen, and things that are not, to destroy things that are,

that no flesh may glory in the sight of God.

But you are of him in Christ Jesus, who has become to us wisdom from God, and righteousness, and sanctification and redemption,

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

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

but we speak a wisdom of God hid in mystery, which God appointed from eternity for our glory,

but as it is written, An eye has not seen, an ear has not heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those that love him;

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

For who knows the [things] of man, except the spirit of man which is in him? So also no one knows the [things] of God except the Spirit 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,

But the natural man receives not the [things] of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot know them, for they are spiritually discerned.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused [the seed] to grow;

so neither is he that plants any thing, nor he that waters, but God that causes it to grow.

For we are God's co-laborers; you are God's field, God's building.

According to the grace of God given me as a wise architect I have laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one see how he builds on it.

Know you not that you are a temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in you?

If any one destroys the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God which you are is holy.

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

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

Let a man so regard us as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Judge nothing therefore before the time, till the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden deeds of darkness, and make known the purposes of the hearts; and then shall each one have praise from God.

For I think that God has shown us the apostles last, as devoted to death, for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

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

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

but those without, God judges. Remove therefore the evil man from among you.

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,

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

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.

Food for the stomach, and the stomach for food; but God will destroy both it and them. And the body is not for fornication but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body;

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

Know you not that your bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit in you which you have from God, and you are not your own?

For you are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.

CONCERNING what you wrote to me, it is good for a man not to touch a woman;

For I wish that all men were even as I am; but each one has his gift from God, and one is of one kind and another of another.

And I say to the unmarried and to the widows, that it is good for them to continue as I am;

But if the unbelieving companion departs, let him depart; the brother or the sister is not bound in such cases; but God has called us to peace.

Unless as the Lord has imparted to each one, as God has called each one, so let him walk; and so I appoint in all the churches.

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping God's commandments.

Let each one continue, brothers, in the calling in which he was called under God.

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

But she is happier if she continues thus, in my opinion, and I think also I have the Spirit of God.

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

Concerning eating things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

yet to us there is 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 through him.

But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat not are we worse, nor if we eat are we better.

For it is written in the law of Moses, You shall not muzzle the ox that threshes. Does God care for oxen?

to those without law, as without law, being not without law to God, but with law to Christ, that I might gain those without law;

but with many of them God was not pleased; for they were destroyed in the wilderness.

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.

Let no one seek his own but the good of another.

Whether then you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

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

But I wish you to know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman, the man, and the head of Christ, God.

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.

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

for as the woman is of the man, so also the man is through the woman, but all things are from God.

Judge of yourselves; is it becoming that a woman should pray to God unveiled?

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

Have you not [food] to eat and drink at your houses? or do you despise the church of God, and shame those who have not [houses]? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you? In this I commend you not.

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.

and there are diversities of operations and the same God, who performs all things in all.

But now God has placed the members each one of them in the body, as he pleased.

for our comely ones have no need. But God has commingled the body, giving more abundant honor to that part which was lacking,

And God has set some in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then powers, then gifts of performing cures, aids, governments, different tongues.

For he that speaks with a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but in spirit he speaks mysteries;

I thank God I speak with a tongue more than you all;

and the secrets of his heart are made manifest, and so falling down on his face he worships God, declaring that God is really among you.

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

for God is not [the friend] of disorder but of peace.

Did the word of God go out from you, or did it come to you alone?

For I am the least of the apostles, and 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 his grace to me was not in vain, but I labored more abundantly than they all, but not I but the grace of God with me.

and we are found also false witnesses of God, because we testified in regard to God that he raised up Christ, whom he raised not up if indeed the dead are not raised.

then is the end, when he delivers up the kingdom to the God and Father, when he will destroy every principality and every authority and power.

and when all things have been put under him, then will the Son also himself be subject to him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

Be not deceived; evil companionships corrupt good morals.

Awake to righteousness and sin not; for some have not a knowledge of God. I speak to your shame.

but God gives it a body as he pleases, and to each of the grains its own body.

But I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor shall destruction inherit indestructibleness.

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

On the first day of the week let each one of you lay aside by himself in store as God has prospered him, that there may be no collections made when I come.