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;

(for thus my witness for Christ was confirmed among you);

so that you lack no divine gift, while you are waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

He will also keep you perfectly stedfast unto the end, so that you will be unreproveable in the Day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

Now I beg you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to speak in accord, all of you, and to have no divisions among you, but to be knit together in a common mind and temper.

I mean by this that one of you says, "I am a follower of Paul"; another, "I of Apollos"; another, "I of Cephas"; another, "I of Christ."

Has Christ been divided? Paul, was he crucified for you? or was it into the name of Paul that you were baptized?

For Christ did not think I baptized any one else. For Christ did not send me forth to baptize, but to proclaim the gospel; and that not in philosophic words, lest the Cross of Christ should be made an empty thing.

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

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

for I determined to know nothing, while among you, but Jesus as Christ, and him a crucified Christ.

As for me, brothers, I could not talk to you as spiritual men, but as to creatures of flesh, mere babes in Christ.

The foundation is already laid??esus Christ??nd no man can lay another.

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.

For Christ's sake we are fools, but you are quite philosophic in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong; you are honorable, but we are outcast.

For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ Jesus, you can have but one father. For in Christ Jesus I begot you through the gospel.

With this in mind I have sent Timothy to you. He is my dear and faithful son in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ; the manner in which I ever teach everywhere in every church.

For I, although absent in body, yet present in spirit, have already passed sentence, by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, on him who has done this thing.

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.

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.

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!

For the slave who has been called in the Lord is the Lord's freedman; and in the same way, the free man who is called is Christ's slave.

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.

So he is lost, this weak man, lost by your "knowledge." this brother for whom Christ died.

In so sinning against your brothers, and in ever and again wounding their weak consciences, you are sinning against Christ.

If others share this authority over you, do not I far more? Yet I have not availed myself of it, but am patiently enduring; so that I may not in any way hinder the progress of Christ's 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).

and all drank from the same spiritual stream, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.

The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a common participation in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a common participation in the body of Christ?

Be imitators of me, as I am an imitator of Christ.

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.

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, although they be many, are one body; so also is Christ.

Now you are the body of Christ, and individually members of it.

For the very first thing I taught you was that I had myself been taught, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scripture,

If then, we are preaching Christ, that he rose from the dead, how are some of you saying that there is no resurrection from the dead?

But if there is no resurrection from the dead, then not even Christ has been raised;

and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, and vain also is your faith.

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.

For if the dead rise not, neither has Christ arisen;

and if Christ be not risen, your faith is vain, you are still in your sins.

More than that, those who are sleeping in Christ have perished.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all mankind most pitiable.

But now, now, Christ is risen from the dead, the first-fruit of those who have fallen asleep.

For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

But each in his own order; Christ the first-fruits, then those who belong to Christ at his appearing.

Every day I am facing death, my brothers, I affirm it by that pride in you which I have through Christ Jesus our Lord.

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

My love be with you all in Christ Jesus.