Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, to the church of God which is in Corinth,

even to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, and called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is both their Lord and ours;

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

I always give thanks unto my God, on your account, for the grace of God bestowed on you in Christ Jesus; that ye are enriched by Him with every gift,

(even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed among you;)

so that ye are deficient in no gift, expecting the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ:

who will also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ;

for God is faithful by whom ye were called into the communion of his son Jesus Christ our Lord.

Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye would all say alike, and that there may be no schisms among you, but that ye be perfectly united in the same mind and in the same judgement.

I mean, that each of you saith, as if of different parties, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, I of Cephas, and I of Christ.

Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized into the name of Paul?

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in fine speech, least the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.

And whereas the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks look for wisdom, we preach Christ crucified;

both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

But ye are of Him in Christ Jesus, who from God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

for I did not think it meet to know any thing among you, but Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.

For who hath known the mind of the Lord, to instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

And I, my brethren, could not speak to you, as to spiritual persons, but as to carnal ones, even as to babes in Christ.

For no one can lay any other foundation, but that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ: and if any build upon this foundation gold,

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

Let a man so account of us, as the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ: we are weak, but ye are strong: ye are honoured, but we are despised.

for if ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet ye have not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you by the gospel.

For this end have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved son and faithful in the Lord, who will bring to your remembrance my ways in Christ, how I teach every where in every church.

For I indeed, absent in body, but present in spirit, have already, as if I were present, judged him who hath wrought this wickedness: in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

of our Lord Jesus Christ, to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your boasting is not good.

Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new mass, without leaven. For our paschal lamb, even Christ, was slain for us.

Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of an harlot?

For he that is called in the Lord being a slave, is the Lord's freed-man: and he likewise that is called being free is the servant of Christ.

and lords many,) yet to us there is but one God the Father, from whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by Him.

and so the weak brother, for whom Christ died, shall perish by thy knowledge?

But in thus sinning against your brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ:

Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? and are not ye my work in the Lord?

If others partake of this power over you, may not we rather? though we have not used this power; but we bear all things, least we should cause any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

What is my reward then but this? that when I preach I may make the gospel of Christ not expensive, that so I may not abuse my power in the gospel.

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

and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them: and that rock was an emblem of Christ.

Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted Him, and were destroyed by serpents: nor murmur,

---The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? the bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

Be ye then imitators of me, as I also am of Christ.

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

so also is the mystical body of Christ; for by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, (whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free) and are all made to drink into one Spirit:

Now ye are the body of Christ, and his members each of you in particular.

For in the first place I delivered to you, that which I also received, to wit, that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures:

Now if it be preached that Christ is risen from the dead, how say some among you, that there is no resurrection of the dead?

for if there be no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen.

And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.

Yea, and we are found false witnesses concerning God, for we have testified of God, that He raised up Christ; whom He did not raise up, if indeed the dead do not rise.

For if the dead rise not, then Christ is not raised:

and if Christ be not risen, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

Then they also that sleep in Christ, are perished.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

But now Christ is risen from the dead, and is become the first-fruits of them that slept:

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

But each in their proper order: the first-fruits, Christ; afterwards they that are Christ's, at his coming.

I protest by your rejoicing, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, that I am even dying daily.

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

If any one love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be made a curse.

Maran-atha. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.