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

to the church of God that is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, and called to be saints, with all those in every place who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours.

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

I always thank my God for you because of the grace of God that was given to you in Christ Jesus.

just as the testimony about Christ has been confirmed among you --

so that you do not lack any spiritual gift as you wait for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

God is faithful, by whom you were called into fellowship with his son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to agree together, to end your divisions, and to be united by the same mind and purpose.

Now I mean this, that each of you is saying, "I am with Paul," or "I am with Apollos," or "I am with Cephas," or "I am with Christ."

Is Christ divided? Paul wasn't crucified for you, was he? Or were you in fact baptized in the name of Paul?

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel -- and not with clever speech, so that the cross of Christ would not become useless.

but we preach about a crucified Christ, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles.

But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.

He is the reason you have a relationship with Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

For I decided to be concerned about nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to advise him? But we have the mind of Christ.

So, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.

For no one can lay any foundation other than what is being laid, which is Jesus Christ.

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

One should think about us this way -- as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, we are dishonored!

For though you may have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, because I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

For this reason, I have sent Timothy to you, who is my dear and faithful son in the Lord. He will remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.

Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch of dough -- you are, in fact, without yeast. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

Some of you once lived this way. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!

For the one who was called in the Lord as a slave is the Lord's freedman. In the same way, the one who was called as a free person is Christ's slave.

yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we live, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we live.

So by your knowledge the weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed.

If you sin against your brothers or sisters in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

If others receive this right from you, are we not more deserving? But we have not made use of this right. Instead we endure everything so that we may not be a hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

To those free from the law I became like one free from the law (though I am not free from God's law but under the law of Christ) to gain those free from the law.

and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they were all drinking from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

And let us not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by snakes.

Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread that we break a sharing in the body of Christ?

Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.

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

For just as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body -- though many -- are one body, so too is Christ.

Now you are Christ's body, and each of you is a member of it.

For I passed on to you as of first importance what I also received -- that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures,

Now if Christ is being preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?

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

And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is futile and your faith is empty.

Also, we are found to be false witnesses about God, because we have testified against God that he raised Christ from the dead, when in reality he did not raise him, if indeed the dead are not raised.

For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.

And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is useless; you are still in your sins.

Furthermore, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished.

For if only in this life we have hope in Christ, we should be pitied more than anyone.

But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits 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 firstfruits; then when Christ comes, those who belong to him.

Every day I am in danger of death! This is as sure as my boasting in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

My love be with all of you in Christ Jesus.