Paul, by the will of God called as an apostle of Jesus Christ, and our brother Sosthenes,

to the church of God at Corinth, to those who are consecrated by union with Christ Jesus, and called as God's people, like all those anywhere who call on the name of Jesus Christ, their Lord as well as ours;

God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace.

I am always thanking God about you, for the blessing God has given you through Christ Jesus.

So your experience has confirmed the testimony that I bore to Christ,

and there is no gift that you lack even while you are waiting for our Lord Jesus Christ to reappear,

and at the Day of our Lord Jesus Christ he will insure your complete vindication.

God can be depended on, and it was he who called you to this fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

But I urge you all, brothers, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ, to agree in what you say, and not to allow factions among you, but to be perfectly united in mind and judgment.

What I mean is this, that one of you says, "I am a follower of Paul," another, "And I, of Apollos," another, "And I, of Cephas," and another, "And I, of Christ!"

Christ has been divided up! But was it Paul who was crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the good news??ut not with fine language, or the cross of Christ might seem an empty thing.

but we proclaim a Christ who was crucified??n idea that is revolting to Jews and absurd to the heathen,

but to those whom God has called, whether they are Jews or Greeks, a Christ who is God's power and God's wisdom.

But you are his children, through your union with Christ Jesus, whom God has made our wisdom??ur uprightness and consecration and redemption,

for I resolved, while I was with you, to forget everything but Jesus Christ and his crucifixion.

For who has ever known the Lord's thoughts, so that he can instruct him? But we share the thoughts of Christ.

For no one can lay any other foundation than the one that is laid, that is, Jesus Christ himself.

But you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.

The right way for a man to think of us is as Christ's servants, and managers authorized to distribute the secret truths of God.

We are made fools of, for the sake of Christ, while you are men of sense, through being united with him. We are weak, you are strong. You are distinguished, we are despised.

For no matter how many guides you may have in the Christian life, you will not have many fathers; for in this matter of union with Christ, I became your father, through preaching the good news to you.

This is why I have sent Timothy to you. He is a dear child of mine, in the service of the Lord, and one on whom you can depend, and he will help you to keep in mind my methods in the service of Christ Jesus, which I follow everywhere in every church.

You must clean out the old yeast and become fresh dough, free from the old as you really are. For our Passover lamb is already sacrificed; it is Christ himself.

Some of you used to be like that; but you have washed it all away, you have been consecrated, you have become upright, by the power of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.

Do you not know that your bodies are parts of Christ's body? Am I then to take away from Christ parts of his body, and make them parts of a prostitute's? Never!

To other people I would say, though not as Christ's command, if a Christian has a wife who is not a believer, and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her,

For a slave who has been called to union with the Lord is a freedman of the Lord, just as a free man who has been called is a slave of Christ.

For supposing there are so-called gods in heaven or on earth??nd indeed there are plenty of such gods and lords??6 yet for us there is just one God, the Father, who is the source of all things, and for whom we live, and just one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom everything was made and through whom we live.

For this overscrupulous brother, for whom Christ died, is ruined by what you call your knowledge.

But in sinning against your brothers in this way and wounding their too scrupulous consciences, you are really sinning against Christ.

If others enjoy such rights over you, have we not a still better claim? But, you say, we have never availed ourselves of this right. No, we will stand anything rather than put any hindrance in the way of the good news of the Christ.

To those who have no law I have become like a man without any law??hough I am not without the law of God, but under the law of Christ??o as to win over those who are without any law.

and drank the same supernatural drink??for they used to drink from a supernatural rock which attended them, and the rock was really Christ??5 still most of them disappointed God, for they were struck down in the desert.

Does not the consecrated cup which we bless mean that in drinking it we share in the blood of Christ? Does not the bread that we break mean that in eating it we share in the body of Christ?

You must follow my example in this, as I am following Christ's.

But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, while a woman's head is her husband, and Christ's head is God.

For just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, many as they are, form one body, so it is with Christ.

Now you are Christ's body, and individually parts of it.

For I passed on to you, as of first importance, the account I had received, that Christ died for our sins, as the Scriptures foretold,

Now if what we preach about Christ is that he was raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead?

If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ was not raised,

and if Christ was not raised, there is nothing in our message; there is nothing in our faith either,

and we are found guilty of misrepresenting God, for we have testified that he raised Christ, when he did not do it, if it is true that the dead are never raised.

For if the dead are never raised, Christ was not raised;

and if Christ was not raised, your faith is a delusion; you are still under the control of your sins.

Yes, and those who have fallen asleep in trust in Christ have perished.

If we have centered our hopes on Christ in this life, and that is all, we are the most pitiable people in the world.

But the truth is, Christ was raised from the dead, the first to be raised of those who have fallen asleep.

For just as because of their relation to Adam all men die, so because of their relation to Christ they will all be brought to life again.

But each in his own turn; Christ first, and then at Christ's coming those who belong to him.

for everything is to be reduced to subjection and put under Christ's feet. But when it says that everything is subject to him, he is evidently excepted who reduced it all to subjection to him.

By the very pride I take in you, brothers, through our union with Christ Jesus our Lord, I face death every day.

My love be with you all through Christ Jesus.